Leslie Keith
Musician · 1906–1977
Best known for
Mandolin
Leslie Keith was an American bluegrass fiddler.
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- Born in 1906 in Pulaski County, Virginia.
- Composed the fiddle tune “Black Mountain Blues,” later renamed “Black Mountain Rag,” which became a country and bluegrass standard.
- Was the first fiddler in the Stanley Brothers' Clinch Mountain Boys in the late 1940s. He died in 1977.
