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Fall 2002
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Larry Franklin is descended from a family of legendary Texas breakdown
fiddlers. His great uncle, Major Franklin, and his father Louis Franklin, were
seldom recorded but vastly influential fiddlers in the Texas fiddle style that
has become the national heard everywhere today.Larry Franklin was winning most
of the major fiddle contests....READ
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Hearing fiddler Larry Franklin tearing through "Boogie Back To
Texas," or playing twin fiddle parts with western swing legend
Johnny Gimble on the 1987 LP Asleep At The Wheel 10, one might
assume that the 34-year-old had been honing the swing style for
decades. In fact, swing is just the most recent step in his
stylistic evolution......READ
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FRETS Magazine
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