Jerry Lundy

The Lundy and Paisley families, from Grayson County, Virginia, and the country around it, had moved north to the Wilmington, Delaware, area for work, and the Southern Mountain Boys’ first lineup was Ted Lundy, Paisley, the mandolinist Fred Hannah and Jerry Lundy. On the band’s first LP, issued by the German label GHP in 1972 and produced by Gerd Hadeler, he played mandolin, with Joe Edd King and Wes Rineer alongside. He was back on fiddle for The Old Swinging Bridge, recorded in August 1972 and released by Rounder in 1973, with John Haftl on mandolin and Rineer on bass, and he and Ted can be heard together on the instrumental “Mountain Sally Ann” in 1973.

He fiddled on the band’s two later Rounder albums: Slipping Away (1976), with Don Eldreth on mandolin, and Lovesick and Sorrow (1978), recorded at Bias Studios in Falls Church, Virginia, with Paisley’s son Danny on second guitar, Ted’s son T. J. on mandolin and Bill Graybeal on bass. After Ted Lundy’s death in 1980 he also played with Bob Paisley’s band, the Southern Grass.

He knew a large body of old-time fiddle tunes, and his driving style carried across the line between bluegrass and old-time music. On 7 July 1991, during Old-Time Week at the Augusta Heritage Center at Davis and Elkins College, he recorded a session of fiddle tunes, among them “Flatwoods” and “Silly Bill,” with the guitarist Hilary Dirlam, whom he had met at a jam there; the Field Recorders’ Collective issued it from his own cassette in 2012 as Fiddling from Old Time to Bluegrass.