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On Two Guys Named Doc Roberts

There were two performing characters name of Doc Roberts traversing Southern highways and byways back about a century ago. The parallel names seems to have been a coincidence, rather than any attempt by one or the other to cop from the other. Fiddlin’ Doc Roberts (Dick Philipine Roberts, 1897-1978) was a Kentucky fiddle player who’d been making old time music since childhood. After years of…