The Wilson Douglas legacy is beautifully preserved on "Fiddle Tunes from Central West Virginia," a collection of 31 classic Douglas renderings, everything from "Sally Goodin" and "Abe's Retreat" to "Sweet 16" and "Devil in Georgia."

Wilson also can be heard on this classic 1973 field recording called "Hot From the Kitchen," accompanied by his uncle Gruder Morris.
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The late Wilson Douglas, who passed away in March 1999 at age 76, was a central West Virginia icon for folk revivalists seeking pre-commercial fiddle styles. Growing up in the traditional culture of Clay County, Wilson learned to play by listening to legendary older fiddlers like French Carpenter and Ed Haley.

Many tell the story how how Wilson's wife ordered him to choose between married life and his fiddle. He later remarried.

Speaking with Goldenseal magazine in 1977, Wilson said, "When I pick up the fiddle I play it from the heart, the way I want to and the way it does me good. If you study a fiddler up close you can almost read his life, all his sorrows, all his happiness. There's a lot of things I could've been, but I'm not and I'm not going to worry about them."

He added, "I think when they're playing good, clean, honest music--fiddling, banjo-picking, guitar-playing, what have you--I think you're just as close to heaven on this earth as you'll ever be if you've got the music in you. I believe that. Now, that don't mean I put the fiddle above the hereafter, or above eternal life. But in this world, that's my Paradise."