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- Jim_Shumate comment "Jim Shumate (October 21, 1921-October 10, 2013) was a fiddler that played with Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys from 1943-1945. Shumate's main influences were Fiddling Arthur Smith, Curly Fox, and his uncle who played the fiddle while he was growing up. Shumate joined the band after Bill Monroe heard him playing on the radio station WHKY from downtown Hickory, North Carolina, and asked him to join the Blue Grass Boys.".