Fiddlin’ Charlie Bowman

Charlie Bowman was a Hall of Fame fiddler, vaudeville performer, and writer of Nine Pound Hammer and East Tennessee Blues who toured with the Hill Billies and other music groups and once performed for President Calvin Coolidge. Two daughters, Jennie and Pauline, were among the first sister act recorded in the country music genre. Charlie and his brothers Elbert, Walter, and Argil played for Congressman B. Carroll Reece’s campaigns. Charlie and his wife, Fannie, reared 12 children in a log house on Roscoe Fitz Road.

Johnson City, Tennessee · United States