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Sean South starts now.

Yeah. South starts now. I'm playing the fiddle near the swimming pool at my hotel in Dothan, Alabama.

I always play in the mornings.

It's routine.

I've been on the road for 14 days playing music and performing my one-man show in different states, but I still like to follow a routine if I can.

And my routine in the mornings is to wake up, unlatch my fiddle case, remove my 1869 fiddle, and pull it out, warm up the strings, tighten up my bow, and play a few tunes.

There are kids by the pool today, playing on phones, texting each other as though they're not two feet apart.

Meantime, the hotel radio is playing Beat It, 1983, by Michael Jackson.

The song I am warming up on, however, is Blackberry Blossom, 1860.

My grandfather always said that the beauty of the fiddle was that no matter how many people were around you, when you started to play magically, everybody nearby would suddenly leave the room.

But that's not the case this morning.

As I play, a young boy quits playing with his phone and he wanders over to me, almost mindlessly.

Without saying a word, he sits in a chair and he listens.

When I'm finished, he applauds.

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