My first encounter with Papa John Creach was an album he did with Midnight Sun called I'm the Fiddle Man. Yuk--straight from the worst of the 70's. Very little fiddle and lots of gross 70's arranging. He redeemed himself, though, with Papa Blues, a straight-up blues album with lots of good fiddle playing and some, ah, colorful lyrics. This is probably the most authentic blues violin album, undiluted by jazz, that I've heard thus far. (Creach also played with Jefferson Airplane for several years. I'll have to check out one of their albums and look for him specifically to find out what he was doing there....)

Here's a sample from "Papa Blues:"

Sweet Life Blues (.AIFF format, 330K, 31 second clip)

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PAPA BLUES (with the Bernie Pearl Blues Band) (1992)
THE CAT & THE FIDDLE (1977)
ROCK FATHER (1976)
I'M THE FIDDLE MAN (1975)

   With Jefferson Starship:

THE BEST OF JEFFERSON AIRPLANE (1993) - Jefferson Starship
JEFFERSON AIRPLANE LOVES YOU * [BOX] (1992) - Jefferson Starship
GOLD (1979) - Jefferson Starship
THIRTY SECONDS OVER WINTERLAND (1973) - Jefferson Starship
LONG JOHN SILVER (1972) - Jefferson Starship
BARK (1971) - Jefferson Starship

   Performances:

BURGERS (1972) - Hot Tuna
BACK TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD - Jeannie & Jimmy Cheatham