John Lozier & Bill Williams Fox Chase Live 1970 Mountain Heritage Folk Festival VIDEO

FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSE ONLY John Lozier (1909-2005) from South Portsmouth, KY, began playing harmonica at age three and a half. As he grew up, he followed the fiddlers who played around the Portsmouth, OH area and learned their music. A fiddler’s harmonica player, Lozier played the beautiful old Portsmouth tunes in all their complexity with the same feeling and drive that distinguished the great fiddlers who were his mentors. John recalled that he took up the harmonica because his father would not let him touch the family fiddle. Bill Williams born (February 28, 1897, October 6, 1973). Born in Richmond, Virginia, Bill Williams spent his childhood in the countryside some sixty miles outside the city. His first musical influence was his brother James, from whom Bill learned to play ragtime guitar. By age 14 Billy was working as a waterboy on the railroad in Delaware. After a stint in the mines out west in Colorado, Bill returned east and briefly worked in Bristol, Tennessee. Now in his early