Research Catalog

Title

Fiddle tunes from Mississippi : commercial and informal recordings, 1920-2018 / Harry Bolick and Tony Russell ; with T. DeWayne Moore, and Joyce A. Cauthen and David Evans.

Author

Bolick, Harry

Publication

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2021]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Russell, Tony, 1946-
• Moore, T. DeWayne
• Cauthen, Joyce H., 1944-
• Evans, David, 1944-

Description

viii, 562 pages : illustrations, maps; 28 cm.

Summary

"Beginning with Tony Russell's original mid-1970s fieldwork as a reference, and later working with Russell, Harry Bolick located and transcribed all of the Mississippi 78-rpm string band recordings. Some of the recording artists like the Leake County Revelers, Hoyt Ming and His Pep Steppers, and Narmour & Smith had been well known. Others, like the Collier Trio, were obscure. After multiple field trips the author located the descendants of the musicians. Previously unheard recordings and stories, unseen photographs and discoveries of nearly unknown fiddlers, such as Jabe Dillon, John Gatwood, Claude Kennedy, and Homer Grice, followed. The results are now available in this second, companion volume, Mississippi Fiddle Tunes: Commercial and Informal Recordings, 1920-2018. Two hundred and sixty-nine transcriptions of tunes supplement the biographies and photographs of the thirty-five artists documented here. Music comes from commercial recordings and small pressings of 78-rpm, 45-rpm, LP records, collector's field recordings, and the musicians' own home tape and disc recordings. Taken together, these two volumes represent a delightfully comprehensive survey of Mississippi's fiddle tunes"--

Series Statement

American made music series

Uniform Title

American made music series.

Subjects

• Folk music
• Fiddle tunes
• Scores
• Discographies
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Mississippi
• Fiddlers > Mississippi
• Folk music > Mississippi > Discography
• Fiddle tunes > Mississippi > Discography
• Folk music > Mississippi > History and criticism
• Fiddle tunes > Mississippi > History and criticism

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Discographies.
• Folk music.
• Scores.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Preface -- Introduction -- Doc Bailey: talent scout, Winona / Tony Russell -- Community of fiddlers in Mississippi / Harry Bolick -- The segregation of sound: unheard African American fiddlers / T. DeWayne Moore -- About the music / Harry Bolick -- John Anderson / Harry Bolick -- Tim Avalon / Harry Bolick -- Mumford Bean and His Itawambians / Tony Russell -- Dink Brister / David Evans -- Enos Canoy and the Canoy Wildcats / Harry Bolick -- The Carter Brothers and Son / Tony Russell -- Augustus Eugene Clardy / T. DeWayne Moore -- The Collier Trio / Tony Russell -- Mike Compton / Harry Bolick -- Jabe Dillon / Harry Bolick -- Thomas Jefferson Dumas / T. DeWayne Moore -- Freeny's Barn Dance Band and the Freeny Harmonizers / Tony Russell -- John Studivan Gatwood / Harry Bolick -- Homer Clyde Grice / Harry Bolick -- Sidney Hemphill Sr. / T. DeWayne Moore -- Claude Kennedy / Harry Bolick -- The Leake County Revelers / Tony Russell -- The Leake County Revelers on record / Tony Russell -- The Leake County String Band / Harry Bolick -- Senator George Cecil McLeod / Harry Bolick -- The Meridian Hustlers / Tony Russell -- Milner and Curtis / Tony Russell -- The Mississippi Possum Hunters / Tony Russell -- The Mississippi Sheiks / T. DeWayne Moore -- Sylvester S. Moran / Harry Bolick -- Willie T. Narmour and Shellie Walton Smith / Harry Bolick -- The Nations Hrothers / Tony Russell -- The Newton County Hill Billies/Alvis Massengale / Harry Bolick -- Grover Clater O'Briant / Harry Bolick -- Jimmy Porter / Joyce Cauthen -- Bob Pratcher / Harry Bolick -- Jerry Prescott / Harry Bolick -- Herb Quinn / David Evans -- The Ray Brothers / Tony Russell -- Afterword / Harry Bolick -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Index.

Call Number

*LE 22-730

ISBN

• 9781496835796
• 1496835794
• 9781496835895
• 1496835891

LCCN

2021023934

OCLC

1250310145

Author

Bolick, Harry, author.

Title

Fiddle tunes from Mississippi : commercial and informal recordings, 1920-2018 / Harry Bolick and Tony Russell ; with T. DeWayne Moore, and Joyce A. Cauthen and David Evans.

Publisher

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2021]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

American made music series

American made music series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Russell, Tony, 1946- author.

Moore, T. DeWayne, contributor.

Cauthen, Joyce H., 1944- contributor.

Evans, David, 1944- contributor.

Other Form:

Online version: Bolick, Harry. Fiddle tunes from Mississippi Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2021 9781496835802 (DLC) 2021023935

Research Call Number

*LE 22-730