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Chances are you’ve never heard of Steve Feltham unless you have a keen interest in finding the Loch Ness Monster.
You see, that’s exactly what Mr. Feltham did for about half of his adult life.
Do you happen to enjoy classic country music?
If so, you’re surely familiar with Jana Jae, the award-winning musician whose superb mastery of the fiddle prompted country music icon Buck Owens to invite her to join his band as the very first female Buckaroo.
Jana performed with Buck and many other top-tier singers and musicians over the years, most notably as a member of the cast of the ultra-popular Country music variety show Hee-Haw.
Never one to sit idle while the world passes her by, Jana is still hard at work playing her iconic blue fiddle in concerts both here in the U.S. and all around the world.
And when time permits she also loves teaching and mentoring aspiring musicians of all ages.
I recently had the opportunity to talk with Jana about her long and successful career and her abounding love of music.
Here are ten questions and answers with Jana Jae…
I’ll never forget the first time I heard Joe Diffie sing.
It was close to midnight on a hot summer Sunday night as I was driving down a lonely stretch of I-20 between Columbia, South Carolina and Augusta, Georgia.
I was stationed at Augusta’s Fort Gordon Army base at the time and I was on my way back to Augusta after spending the weekend “back home” in Virginia.
Chances are you’ve never heard of singer-songwriter Jim Sullivan.
In fact, it would be a surprise if you had because he disappeared from the scene before his fledgling music career really had a chance to take off.
By the way, when I say “he disappeared”, I do mean that literally.
Ask any 5th grader what year the Civil War ended and you’ll likely be told 1865.
A quick bit of math will tell you that was 155 years ago.
Ask any American of any age when the last Civil War-era pensioner passed away and they’ll likely guess some time around the mid-1900s.
But guess what? They would be wrong.
In fact, they would be very wrong.