When I was seven years old, I saw Elvis Presley on TV. That hit me as to why I wanted to play music. Through a succession of different instruments, I ended up with the guitar. Then when I was 24, I heard my first mandolin player, Jethro Burns, at a bluegrass festival in Indiana. Those two and Bill Monroe, of course, were my main, early influences.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "When I was seven years old, I saw Elvis Presley on TV. That hit me as to why I wanted to play music. Through a succession of different instruments, I ended up with the guitar. Then when I was 24, I heard my first mandolin player, Jethro Burns, at a bluegrass festival in Indiana. Those two and Bill Monroe, of course, were my main, early influences." in the context of "Eight of January's Bob Knysz, lead singer and mandolin player, recalling his influences for the Marietta Daily Journal' s January 2, 2019 edition, in an article entitled "The Boys of Bluegrass: Georgia band gets set to pull some strings"" to mean that wisdom is timeless.