Jasper "Jep" Bisbee worked at various occupations over the years, including farmer, store clerk, shoemaker, and house painter. Yet music was Bisbee's passion--and provided part of his income. Jep learned to play the fiddle as a youth, performing at dances beginning in the 1860s. Henry Ford first heard Bisbee play in August 1923--and this rural Michigan fiddler quickly became a favorite of Ford's.