By Casey Phillips
Staff Writer
In his desire to know more about old-time music, fiddler Bruce Greene suddenly found himself among the genre’s most knowledgeable and respected practitioners.
Growing up in New Jersey, Greene became fascinated with old-time music through Library of Congress field recordings during the folk revival of the ’60s. His pursuit of the music has taken him from Washington to Kentucky and, eventually, North Carolina.
By the time he’d graduated from Western Kentucky University, Greene said, he had spent as much time roaming the state’s backwoods collecting tunes from source musicians as in the classroom.