T he world of autoharp sounds has been greatly diminished by the recent passing of Jim Snow. Jim died at home on April 16, 2008, from cancer. He was 65 years old. Jim was born to Kilby Snow and Lillie Blanche Isom in Carroll County, Virginia. Like his father, Jim loved music, and his first instrument was a guitar, but his favorite instrument was autoharp. From early childhood, Jim absorbed Kilby's autoharp playing and techniques, and when Mike Seeger tracked Kilby down on a tip from Pop Stoneman, Jim was there to play guitar and harmonize on vocals for the recording sessions. For some years following the death of his dad in 1980, Jim put down his guitar and harp and went into musical hibernation. Having become irrevocably obsessed with the Kilby Snow autoharp sound, which I first heard on some of those recordings that Mike Seeger made, I began to research Snow in order to write a story about his life and music. I found that the information available from libraries and archives was scant. To this day, the best sources for details on his music are the liner notes by Mike Seeger that accompanied the two LPs, Country Songs and Tunes with Autoharp (Folkways 3902, 1969) and Mountain Music Played on the Autoharp (Folkways 2365, 1965), and Shanachie's Traditional Music Classics video with Seeger and Snow. The late Mary Lou Orthey, founder and publisher of Autoharp Quarterly, knew of my quest for information about Kilby Snow, and called