Career
Higgins said that he was influenced by other old-time fiddlers including Emmett Lundy and Fiddlin" Arthur Smith. His style of playing was said to be very innovative and creative. Higgins played regularly with Wade Ward, Dale Poe and other old-time musicians in the Galax area.
Recordings of Charlie Higgins are few, and limited to field recordings made between 1959 and 1961 by folklorists Alan Lomax, Peter Hoover and John Cohen.
At the time of these recordings Higgins was over eighty years of age, and apparently was not recorded during his prime.
