My first exposure to playing the Bones was as a child, in the sixties. A Bones player, Cecil Hiatt, had joined in with my grandfather, Lue Berline, while he played the fiddle. As it turned out, Cecil had learned his Bones technique from a player in an old west medicine show. Several years later, it was Cecil who gave me my first set of Bones and taught me my first clicks.
		In the years since, my Bones playing has taken me to more places and allowed me to meet more good people than I could have ever imagined. I hope you find playing the Bones to be as fun and rewarding as I have. Drop me a line if you'd like to share some of your own Bones stories.