Sloan Cain - Sloan Cain is recovering from shoulder surgery, but has seen fit to come to the Smyth County Jam as an observer instead of a fiddler. We hope he can get back to fiddling and feel well shortly. Sloan currently lives in Ceres, VA. He has retired from teaching (a guidance counselor) in Yadkin County North Carolina. Sloan plays fiddle and guitar. He has played since age thirteen. He says his influences in music are Benny Martin and Thornton Spencer. His mother came from a large family and and she played piano. Sloan says she showed him about three chords on the guitar and he learned from there.
