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Name: Lardo Moron
Group: The Moron Brothers
Date: Tuesday April 1st, 2008
Time: 7:00pm EDT
Website: www.themoronbrothers.com
Interviewer: Uncle Billy Dunbar
Description:
Lardo was born and raised in a small farming community in northern Fayette County called Loradale, Kentucky near Lexington. His family on both sides grew tobacco for a living. A lot of songs that he has written are about his family and friends. The family later moved to Jessamine County were Lardo graduated High School (believe it or not). While other kids were crazy about the Rolling Stones, Elvis and Rock and Roll, his interest seemed to be deep rooted in Country and Bluegrass Music, with heroes such as Merle Travis, Flatt & Scruggs, Osborne Brothers, JD Crowe and Hank Williams. At the age of 21, he got a job at the Lexington Fire Deptartment where he had a lot of time between duties to practice the banjo and later the fiddle. Along about 1991, on a warm summer evening, he was practicing his banjo in front of Station #5 when a friend stopped by with his guitar, Steve Works. Then a neighbor came by with a bass fiddle and they were jamming everyday after that in between duty. The jam session grew until the pickers and audience sometimes were more than they had room for. One night, somewhere about 1995, a shy guitar picker came with his brother, also from Nicholasville, to the jam session. He finally got his guitar out when the crowd thinned down and immediately everyone realized this guy had something to offer. A special friendship soon developed between us and today we're closer than friends we're brothers, Moron Brothers that is. |
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