Foxy on the Fiddle
Carriage Hill Farm
in Ohio (1981)
Bill and Connie on guitars
and Thurman Rich on banjo

Who is Bill Lowe?   

William (Bill) F. Lowe was born in 1930 in Pike County, Hatfield, KY.  Raised a miner’s son on Big Creek, on a 20-mile stretch of highway that was his road home from the 38 states he has traveled and 4 foreign lands.  Bill was born with the gift, as they say in the mountains, his music has always been a part of his life.  From radio and television in Los Angles and Hollywood, California, to Dayton, Ohio, where he was the leader of  Cripple Creek for 13 years  and is still active in the music world today.  He has recorded 18 cassettes, albums, etc.  He was the second artist to record Man of Constant Sorrow for Rounder Recorders in 1976.  The Stanley Brothers being the first to record it and making it a big hit today.  Bill has always used his music as an aid in all walks of his life.  Playing  in the many Veteran Hospitals in the Los Angeles area and for good causes wherever they arose.  He has raised many thousands of dollars for the needy.  Bill is a Korean Vet. serving in the U.S. Marines, he was an Honor Guard for Eisenhower, who later became President of the U.S.  He has been a radio disk jockey in Yellow Springs, Ohio for 3 years, Mayor of Farmersville, Ohio, pro. tem. councilman for 4 years.  Bill worked 13 years for the government for the Apollo program in California….Marquardt Corporation, Van Nuys, California on the man to the moon project.  Then he worked as an inspector for GM for 20 years in Dayton, Ohio, where he retired. John Y. Brown, governor of KY. Made Bill a Kentucky Colonel in 1981.  He hangs in the Bluegrass Hall of Fame in Midland, Michigan.  He has had his life history written in an international magazine, Bluegrass Unlimited.  Numerous newspapers and magazines have written articles about Bill’s music.  In Bill’s musical career, he has always kept Kentucky in his program; he is truly music from the true vine. His mountain “modal” sound has been adopted into his music as well as his one-of-a-kind guitar style.  His style is so rare and true to the traditional sound  of the mountains of dear old Kentucky.   Bill Lowe is a kind outgoing man with a way about him you’ll not soon forget.   

The music of Kentucky is a rare music.  It is truly a one of a kind sound that is of the mountains and the deep valleys.  Sung by the Old Regular Baptist Church and carried on in the lonesome sounds that so many seek and try to copy or learn.  The “modal” sound of Kentucky music is unlike any other musical sound found in the world.  So …. seek thee out the old path and walk there in.