Wilson Douglas: West Virginia Mountain Fiddler

"It's hard for me to explain the way I feel about music. I think every musician is expressing his past, his present, what he should've been and what he hopes to be."

"And I think when they're playing good, clean, honest music--fiddling, banjo-picking, guitar-playing, what have you--I think you're just as close to heaven on this earth as you'll ever be if you've got the music in you."

"I believe that. Now, that don't mean I put the fiddle above the hereafter, or above eternal life. But in this world, that's my Paradise, in this world."

-Wilson Douglas, Clay County, WV fiddler {from Goldenseal Magazine, January 1977}

"...Wilson Douglas' music, with his smooth rolling style, heart-wrenchingly bittersweet tone and indefinable little nuances transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. Somehow Wilson manages to create a sound that is at once both the most joyous and the most lonesome tone I have ever heard come out of a fiddle. These recordings are absolute essentials in any old-time music fan's collection."

-Gail Gillespie, Music Review, Old Time Herald magazine, November 1989