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Curly Ray Cline
by Kathleen L. Stanton
This is an interview with Curly Ray Cline that was published in the Apr. 1975 edition of the now defunct 'Pickin' Magazine.
It isn't hard picking out 'Curly' Ray Cline amongst the other Clinch Mt.
Boys. He plays the fiddle. But his personality is just as noticeable.
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Curly is usually the one whose high spirits and good-natured impudence help get the crowd smiling... then chuckling... and finally roaring for more.
Born in the mountainous Mingo County, West Virginia, 'Curly' Ray Cline first stepped on stage in a fiddle contest in Williamson, West Virginia, at the age of thirteen.
Only a few years later, he helped organize the Lonesome Pine Fiddlers, made up of his brothers and cousins Ned, Ezra, Charlie, renowned mandolin player Paul Williams,[1] and Ray himself.
Curly: My daddy was an old-time fiddler, and I just followed him, and a fiddle player named Arhur Smith (from the Grand Ole Opry).
I just called it mountain fiddlin' back the