Smoke Dawson

Born in Brooklyn, New York on June 5, 1935, George "Smoke" Dawson was by most accounts (including his own) a mainly itinerant -- and often impoverished -- fiddle and bagpipe player who passed back and forth between New York and the West Coast for decades, and while he worked at times as a commercial fisherman, a wrestler, an aerial photographer, and plenty of other assorted jobs, it was music that formed the essential arc of his life. ~ Steve Leggett