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BiTS: I've been a fan of Jules Holland for many years and been to many of his
concerts. He is an absolutely superb piano player, no doubt about that, but I really

love the band as well. Did you like the band?

JP: I don't think I heard much of the band that night, not with him playing.

BiTS: Oh, okay. Well, you need to search them out and listen to them because it's a
really great 1940s big band sound. It’s absolutely wonderful.

JP: Sounds good.

BiTS: Jerron, tell me something about the instruments that you play. I've heard you
play the banjo. I've heard you play the guitar, but I gather you're a fiddler as well,
and a lot of other instruments too.

JP: Ah yeah, I play the fiddle, and I play the piano and play the harmonica, which is
probably why I'm invited to the DeFord Bailey Festival.

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BiTS: All right. Okay, who was of course, an early harmonica player of the blues.

JP: On the Grand Ole Opry.

BiTS: How did you learn to play these instruments? Did you have lessons, or did you

just pick it up naturally?

JP: Well, lessons are natural, you know [chuckles]. You don't learn to operate heavy
machinery without a few lessons and pianos are some of the heaviest machinery.

The banjo is powerfully loud and heavy machinery, so you want a little bit of
instruction before you go knocking peoples’ eardrums down. But yeah, I started out

with fiddle lessons and, like I said, I took bluegrass banjo lessons at McCabe’s, which
I will be playing at in mid-December. So yeah, life starts out with a bit of tutelage and