Mike Hankins - Another member of the " Back Porch Pickers", Mike Hankins is an original member of this fine band. Mike plays an outstanding dobro. He plays guitar, bass and fiddle, also. What a multi-talented man to grace the stage of the Smyth County Jam! Mike says he has played for about twenty-five or twenty-six years. At one time he played in a gospel group called "Country Praise." Mike says he admires a man by the name of Wade Arns, whom he grew up with. Wade Arns played an exceptional guitar and Mike apparently learned a lot from him.
