Ricky Hess - Ricky comes to our music venue from Cedar Bluff, VA. The Smyth County Jam is very happy to have a few good harmonica players visit us. They are few and far between; yet they add so much to the music! We appreciate him coming here. Ricky says he has been playing harmonica for about 48 years. That would make him start at age four. He spent about fourteen years in Cleveland, Ohio where his only child, a daughter, remains still. About all Ricky's family plays and or sings. Ricky is a member of the excellent band: "The Back Porch Pickers" based in the Tazewell area. He says he admires the music of the original Carter Family very much.
