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| Carthy Sisco Lee Stripling Jim Ketterman Jim Evans Glenn Berry Harry Johnson Jeff Anderson Marilyn Scott Gil Kiesecker Floyd Engstrom Stuart Williams Vivian Williams Author: Brid NowlanPhotographer: Doug PlummerAbout the projectExhibit ScheduleWA State Old Time Fiddlers Association Home PageArchivesHome
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In 1929, at the
tender age of eight, Lee began his career as a dance musician on mandolin, and took up the
fiddle a few years later. With his famous father, Charlie Stripling, on fiddle and his
older brother Robert on guitar, he played at dances and concerts in and around his home
town of Kennedy, Alabama. One afternoon the Striplings stopped in to play with the well
known local fiddler Uncle Plez Carroll. Lee still plays some of the tunes they played
there and treasures the memory of the afternoon visit that links modern Seattle with
pre-Civil War Alabama. "Uncle Plez was born in 1850, before the Civil War, and yet I
some played tunes with him. I’m still alive, 152 years later!" Lee came to Seattle during the Second World War, then married and settled here. He had given up the fiddle for many years when some local fiddle enthusiasts, fans of his father’s music, came to visit. They encouraged him to play again and to record a CD (‘Hogs Picking Up Acorns,’ available from Voyager Records). Lee’s rhythmic, old-time hoedowns and Western Swing tunes can be heard at jams and dances around Seattle.
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