Amy Boucher, Bob Taylor, Debbie Larson, Ann Winans, Ken Winans
Amy Boucher is from the Pine Mountain district of Grayson County. An accomplished banjo picker, she sometimes plays banjo uke, or even ukulele, and can even be persuaded to play guitar or bass in a pinch.
Bob Taylor’s grandfather was a fiddler in a family of musicians that included Bob and Alf Taylor, the fiddling governors of Tennessee. He divides his time between Grayson County and Durham, NC.
Debbie Larson lives in Wytheville, Va. The old- time music heritage is rich in her family, including a father who played the fiddle and assisted in the founding of WPAQ radio station in Mount Airy, N.C.
Ann and Ken Winans, from Grayson County and the newest members of the band, are adjusting nicely to Bob’s idiosyncratic fiddling.
Dan Peck has played banjo and guitar with bands such as Enoch Rutherford and the Gold Hill Boys and W.S. Mayo and the Virginia Barn Dance Band. He supports his music habit by designing databases for the art world.
The Buck Mountain Band formed in 1999 at the Galax Old Fiddlers Convention, with Ray Chatfield on banjo and Dan Peck and Sue Taylor playing guitar. Larry McPeak, the legendary singer and songwriter from Wythe County, was a member of the band for many years, as was the Sparta, NC, guitar maker Harrol Blevins.
Performing at the Blue Ridge Music Center as Midday Mountain Musicians since 2007, the Buck Mountain Band has entertained Blue Ridge Parkway visitors from all over the world. The band also plays at the Alleghany Jubilee in Sparta, NC, at the Floyd Country Store in Floyd, VA, and at fiddlers' conventions throughout the Virginia-North Carolina mountain region.
The band’s name comes from the mountain in Grayson County, Va., near the home of fiddler Bob Taylor, and also keeps alive the name and spirit of a well-known group active in the middle years of the last century in this same area.
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