Real name: Charles Melvin Stripling

(1896 - 1966) American old-time country musician (fiddle) born in West Alabama. With brother Ira Stripling in The Stripling Brothers. As a teenager, he acquired a fiddle and learned his first pieces from a neighbor, Pleasant C. Carroll, known as "Uncle Plez," who appears to be the source of the complex, archaic-sounding tunes for which Stripling is best known, such as The Lost Child, Wolves A'Howling and Horseshoe Bend.