Ah, Stringbean from Jackson County, KY. My wife had kinfolks from there and they knew him and a several other Akemans in that area. The old time clawhammer style is a one of my favorite musical sounds and was prominent and common back in those Kentucky hills. I had the pleasure of seeing him in person several times and when he was robbed and murdered my blood boiled over. What animal would kill a good, harmless man like David Akeman and his wife. Sad.
My daddy was from Pike Co and grew up with a clawhammer style banjo picker, Molly O'Day. They sang together in church. She toured with Hank Williams and was the top female country singer in Nashville but gave it all up and walked off the stage and never recorded another secular song. She became an evangelist and gospel singer teaming with her husband Lynn Davis. I saw her many times at church and also visited the family up Homemade Holler. She had a couple of nieces that were "knockout" beautiful.
The bright lights of the big city and national fame were not what her heart desired. She was a mountain girl with strong religious convictions and turned her back on the world stage and just walked away.
Sir, I forgot that happened to Stringbean and his wife when I posted.😡😰