Lotus Dickey

Biographical notes
 (QUENTIN) LOTUS DICKEY (1912-1989) was an old-time musician who lived on Grease Gravy Road, just south of Paoli, southern Indiana (about 50 miles south of Bloomington). DIckey worked at hard labor, making baskets, in construction and in the Gary, Ind., steel mills. He raised eight children, but was divorced from his wife in 1960 and did not remarry. He was a guitar player, singer and fiddler who was "discovered" by an Indiana University folklorist in 1981, but only received national attention when he retired. He was invited to play at the National Folk Festival in 1984, and performed at other concerts, in schools, festivals and dance camps across the United States.