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    • Feb 4, 1906
    Fiddler Art Wooten is born in Sparta, North Carolina. He becomes the first fiddler in Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys in 1939 and returns to the band in the early-1940s, playing on Monroe's version of the fiddle tune "Orange Blossom Special"
    Oct 2, 1941
    Bill Monroe records "Orange Blossom Special" at Atlanta's Kimball Hotel with Blue Grass Boy Art Wooten centerstage on fiddle. The session also includes Monroe's first recording of "In The Pines"
    Oct 6, 1986
    Fiddler Art Wooten dies in Sparta, North Carolina. A former member of Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys, he played on Monroe's version of "Orange Blossom Special"
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