Frank Owens - Frank comes to the Smyth County Jam on a very regular basis. He also has made many videos of the music, estimated at fifty or sixty all told. Frank lives in the town of Marion, Virginia. He has been coming to the Smyth County Jam since it began. Frank is a retired tractor-trailer driver and also worked as a cement truck operator for Ready-Mix Concrete Company. He is father of two grown children and has grand and great-grand children. Frank says he also enjoys going to Senior Citizens meetings at Whitetop, Virginia.