Click to listen to interview with Sue Edmonds
Click to listen to interview with Hick Edmonds
Click to listen to Walking in the Parlor featuring Hick & Sue Edmonds

So many of our relatives deserve applause for their musical abilities.  I certainly applaud, and salute, such wonderful talent, as I'm sure those who are reading this right now do, as well.  Of course, there are varying degrees of talent of  the older family members, and of those young ones following in their footsteps.

But, then, there are those whose talent almost seem to know no bounds.  I am speaking specifically of my Aunt Sue Edmonds and her husband, Hick Edmonds, and this page is a special dedication to them.  All the music heard on this website are by Sue and Hick Edmonds and features my Uncle Arthur Taylor on the harmonica (please check out the page dedicated especially to him). 

The Old-Time Herald, Volume 10, Number 11, June - July 2007 issue featured Hick and Sue Edmonds with their picture on the front cover and an article on pages 26 - 39, written by  Shay Garriock.  Shay did a wonderful job of capturing the essence of  Sue and Hick, their talent and dedication to their  music, as well as the area in Smyth County where they live.  An excerpt of that article follows, but if you want to purchase the magazine containing the article, contact Shay at shayg@mindspring.com,

....."Hick has never offered any 'war stories,' but often shares a memorable personal account, somewhat mischeivous, about playing fiddle for a group of bystanders in the streets of London: 'I was going along there one day, two-thirds drunk like I was any day that a got a hold of any liquor, and there was an old fellow (with a violin) walking alone on the street....They wouldn't allow any crowds on the street.  It was between Buckingham Palace and Marble Arch.  And they would make the old fellow walk up and down the street (while playing); they wouldn't let him stop on the street and get a crowd.  And I didn't care if I was going up or down the road, it didn't make no difference to me.  And I says, 'Pop, let me see your fiddle.'  He just handed it right over to me.  I started sawing off on it, and people started offering me money.  And I says, 'I don't want it, give it to Pop here.'  And I kept a-tuning it higher until I broke a string, and I give him a shilling to buy that with, and left.'  Ten years later, Hick saw on television an interview, presumably with a man in London, who detailed an account during the war of an American soldier playing a fiddle at Buckingham Palace.  'I done that caper that he was talking about, it sounded just exactly like....I done what he said!  He said he struck them strings on the fiddle like a professional."


                                                                  Sue & Boyd "Hick" Edmonds - 1994