Lily may ledford biography
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Lily May Ledford (March 17, – July 14, ) was an American clawhammer banjo and fiddle player.
Lily May Ledford grew up on a tenant farm in Powell County, Kentucky, fifty miles east of Lexington. Her family made its own music, and by the time she was a teenager she had joined her sister Rosie and brother Cayen in a string band they called the Red River Ramblers.
They played for square dances up and down the Red River Gorge area. Lily May played both banjo and fiddle and picked up many old songs from her father and other relatives.
After several years of illness she passed away in Now she has taken the songs and stories from the hills of Kentucky 'round the world.In 1936, when the Ramblers played for talent scouts, she was selected to come to Chicago and appear on the WLS Barn Dance radio show.
The producer, John Lair, soon discussed with Lily May an idea he had long wanted to try: forming an all-girl string band.
When the Barn Dance moved to Cincinnati in 1937, he brought together Lily May, Rosie,and two other young female instrumentalists. Another Ledford sister, Minnie, later joined the group. It was called the Coon Creek Girls "so that people will know at once what kind of music they're going to hea