Lee Edwin Stripling (August 30, 1921 – April 20, 2009) was a United States singer and fiddler in the old-time style.
[1] Lee played in the 1920s and 1930s in the American Southeast; in the early 1940s, he switched to Western Swing.
Stripling served in the Army Air Corps during World War II.
Following a hiatus of more than fifty years, he resumed his musical career, playing throughout the Pacific Northwest at Northwest Folklife Festival, MerleFest, The Berkeley Old Time Music Convention[2] and touring several times through his old home region of Northwestern Alabama.
A documentary featuring him, Winging My Way Back Home: The Stripling Fiddle Legacy, was filmed over a three-year period by Jeri Vaughn.