It's the old famer's lament, "I've lost many a good crop a-playin' on the fiddle". American vernacular music is addictive, and habitual participation in folk, country, old-time, or other of the primitive musics of the United States necessarily results in financial hardship. In 1946, one hundred and three years after the founding of OLD KOTON INDUSTRIES, Bill Monroe and his band the Blue Grass Boys gave us another music to add to this list, bluegrass. Our Founder Obediah Linus Dunne was a fiddler, and often bemoaned the deleterious effects his musical avocation had on his wallet..."Dealing in fine koton shirts simply has more sense to it."