John Wesley "Dick" Summers (1887–1976) was an old-time fiddler from Indiana. He learned to play from his family, but a Tom Riley of Kentucky was also an influence. Summers did not originally read music, but did learn to do so in his 70s. He was one of the only old-time Midwestern fiddlers to have a commercially distributed album in the post-World War II era. As indicated though his style had Southern, and as mentioned Kentucky, influences.
References
- "Field Recorder". Archived from the original on 2012-04-06. Retrieved 2012-05-17.
- The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia by Richard Sisson, Christian K. Zacher, Andrew Robert Lee Cayton, pg 385
- Old-time Music And Dance: Community And Folk Revival by John Bealle, pg 41