Musician. \u201cPappy\u201d Sherrill, a traditional fiddler, is known primarily to South Carolinians for his long musical association with the banjoist DeWitt \u201cSnuffy\u201d Jenkins that dated back to 1939. Although the two made few recordings together during their prime, later albums preserve much of their music. According to the Nashville deejay and music historian Eddie Stubbs, Pappy Sherrill \u201cwas a wonderful old-time fiddle player . . . his playing had so much life in it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sherrill was born near Hickory, North Carolina, on March 23, 1915. He started playing fiddle at age seven and made his radio debut at thirteen in Gastonia. Through the mid-to-late 1930s Sherrill played with several groups that worked for the Crazy Water Crystals Company, including the East Hickory String Band, the Crazy Hickory Nuts, Mack and Shorty, Mainer\u2019s Mountaineers, the Morris Brothers\u2013with whom he recorded as Wiley, Zeke, and Homer\u2013and the Blue Sky Boys, with whom he made some radio transcriptions. They worked at WWNC Asheville, WGST Atlanta, WPTF Raleigh, and WBT Charlotte. In October 1939 Sherrill came to Columbia, South Carolina, and joined Byron Parker\u2019s Hillbillies (or Mountaineers), recording with them on Bluebird in 1940 and DeLuxe in 1946. Homer acquired the nickname \u201cPappy\u201d in July 1940, when his wife presented him with a son.<\/p>\n
From 1939 until 1990 the musical career of Pappy Sherrill was closely entwined with that of Snuffy Jenkins. They recorded later albums for Folk-Lyric, Rounder, and Old Homestead. In addition, Sherrill made a reunion album with the Morris Brothers on Rounder. On one of the Rounder albums he got to record his signature tune \u201cCherry Blossom Waltz.\u201d After Jenkins died in 1990, Sherrill made some appearances with the WBT Briarhoppers and received such honors as the South Carolina Folk Heritage Award and the North Carolina \u201cOrder of the Long Leaf Pine.\u201d Sherrill remained active almost to the time of his death in Columbia on November 30, 2001.<\/p>\n
Ahrens, Pat J. A History of the Musical Careers of DeWitt \u201cSnuffy\u201d Jenkins, Banjoist, and Homer \u201cPappy\u201d Sherrill, Fiddler. <\/em>Columbia, S.C., 1970.<\/p>\n Hinshaw, Dawn. \u201cBluegrass Legend Pappy Sherrill, 86.\u201d Columbia State, <\/em>December 1, 2001, pp. A1, A4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Musician. \u201cPappy\u201d Sherrill, a traditional fiddler, is known primarily to South Carolinians for his long musical association with the banjoist DeWitt \u201cSnuffy\u201d Jenkins that dated back to 1939. Although the two made few recordings together during their prime, later albums preserve much of their music. According to the Nashville deejay and music historian Eddie Stubbs, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":-1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","class_list":["post-14870","entry","type-entry","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ecms-a-z","ecms-art","ecms-civil-rights-era-1955-1969","ecms-encyclopedia","ecms-great-depression-1930-1938","ecms-jazz-age-1919-1929","ecms-midlands","ecms-popular-culture","ecms-post-war-america-1946-1954","ecms-richland-county","ecms-s","ecms-the-modern-state-1970-present","ecms-world-war-i-1914-1918","ecms-world-war-ii-1939-1945"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n