Early Years
Maybelle Addington was born on May 10, 1909, in the Copper Creek community near Nickelsville, in Scott County. One of ten children of Hugh Jack Addington and Margaret Elizabeth Kilgore Addington, she learned a variety of traditional Appalachian songs and tunes from her banjo-playing mother as well as from siblings, relatives, and neighbors. Performing as a child at social gatherings with her family’s informal band, Addington sang and played the banjo and autoharp, although by her teenage years she had adopted the guitar as her primary instrument. Her style of playing, modeled loosely on old-time banjo techniques, required plucking the melody on the bass strings while strumming the rhythm on the high strings and became so influential among later guitar players that it was dubbed the “Carter lick.”
CAROLYN R. WILSON
Special to the Bristol Herald Courier
CHILHOWIE â During the calm of the morning as the sun makes an entrance along the horizon, Terri Davis can often be found greeting the day on a boat with a fishing rod in her hand and her German shepherds Ruger and Remington by her side.
Practice is important, even for the Chilhowie resident whoâs making waves as one of the leading female bass anglers in the region â and the country.
Davis will participate in the 38th annual Major League Fishing All-Americans on Douglas Lake in East Tennessee in June, representing one of only four women to compete in the male-dominated league.