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| | Fiddle-L Anthology 1999: Performer Bio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | Chirps was born October 11, 1952 in Pekin, Tazwell County, Illinois. |
 | | He is the first member of his family to play the violin, which he started learning in 1974, while living in Charleston, Illinois. |
 | | Chirps chose to record Ol' Woodard's Tune, which he learned from Eldon Skaggs of Stoy, Illinois, and 4 and 20 Blackbirds Dancing On A Fawn Skin, from Harvey "Pappy" Taylor of Effingham, Illinois. |
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