Hop abard Larry Long & Fiddlin’ Pete’s musical train on January 4th in the intimacy of Big Top Chautauqua’s ‘Backstage’ venue in Bayfield, Wisconsin.
The story of Fiddlin Pete & Larry is something out of a John Steinbeck novel. In their early twenties they hitchhiked and hopped freight-trains throughout the West passing the hat from bar to bar, performing most anywhere that people gather. In exchange for the hospitality and generosity shown by those who helped them out along the way, Larry would write a song in their honor. The lyrics were left pinned onto their refrigerator door with a magnet before Fiddlin’ Pete and Larry headed back on the road.
In the course of their travels they joined up with bassist Larry Dalton, who they met in the High Sierra Mountain Range town of Truckee, California. Now fifty years later, Larry and Fiddlin’ Pete have come back together with bassist Larry Dalton to celebrate five decades of friendship and the release of their new recording, “As In Those Early Days”.