On a previous Buzzy Podcast, Chief Larry and I featured JW Raley discussing his efforts working on Israel Zook (IZ) Swarey’s home as it was being constructed at the end of Airedele Road. (click here.)
In this week’s Buzzy Podcast, we have our good friend Billy Fitzgerald discussing IZ.
IZ passed in January 2019 (click here) and his wife Linda in November 2019 (click here.)
After hearing JW’s Podcast comments about IZ, Kay Carter texted me saying:
“I was good friends with Linda and IZ. His bluegrass band played several times at Spinnakers for me and they always came into Scheibles and Spinnakers on Saturday for breakfast. They were very nice folks. He was a fighter for sure. After that stroke he was determined to get back moving and he did! Linda fought her cancer but it finally got the best of her.”
Musically, this calls for a performance of the all time best blue grass tune:
From left to right are Steve Martin, Pete Wernick, Charles Wood, Tony Ellis and Earl Scruggs. That was Letterman’s band leader Paul Shaffer on piano.