Mountains of music : West Virginia traditional music from Goldenseal /
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| Language: | English |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
c1999.
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| Series: | Music in American life
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Table of Contents:
- Fiddlers. Melvin Wine / Susan Leffler ; Woody Simmons : recollections of a Randolph county fiddler / Michael Kline ; Clark Kessinger : pure fiddling / Charles Wolfe ; I remember Clark Kessinger / Bobby Taylor ; Wilson Douglas : mountain man and mountain musician / Nancy McClellan ; How I came to be a fiddler / Wilson Douglas and Nancy McClellan ; Sarah Singleton : a fiddler all her life / Teresa Hamm ; John Johnson : "a pretty good thing all the way around" / Michael Kline ; A musical look at John Johnson's fiddling / John A. Cuthbert ; Robert Byrd : mountain fiddler / Dave Wilbur ; Ernie Carpenter : tales of the Elk River country / Gerald Milnes and Michael Kline ; Thinking about music / Ernie Carpenter
- Banjo players. Clarence Tross : Hardy county banjoist / Kip Lornell Jr. and J. Roderick Moore ; Sylvia O'Brien : "we lived good back then" / Ken Sullivan ; Elmer Bird : the banjo man from Turkey Creek / Paul Gartner ; Aunt Jennie Wilson : "I grew up with music" ; "A real fine looking man" : Aunt Jennie remembers Frank Hutchison / Robert Spence ; Andrew F. Boarman : the banjo man from Berkeley county / Peggy Jarvis & Dick Kimmel ; Charlie Blevins at the Red Robin Inn : the coon dog truth / Michael Kline
- Dulcimer players. Russell Fluharty : the dulcimer man / Ken Sullivan ; Worley Gardner : mountain music, dance, and dulcimers / Mark Crabtree ; Patty Looman : carrying on the music / Danny Williams
- Guitarists. Doc Williams : a half century at the "Wheeling Jamboree" / Ivan Tribe ; Blackie Cool : "Whoop it up a little bit" / Sam Rizzetta ; Carl Rutherford : music from the coalfields / Jim McGee ; Nat Reese : something to give / Michael Kline
- Family bands. The Lilly Brothers : "we sing about life and what it means to us" / Carl Fleischhauer and Tom Screven ; Lynn Davis & Molly O'Day : "living the right life now" / Abby Gail Goodnight and Ivan Tribe ; Remembering Molly O'Day / Dave Peyton ; The Currence Brothers : "the spark to play music" / Jack Waugh and Michael Kline ; The Welch Brothers band : "always come home after the dance" ; "A good clean square dance is a very fine thing" : Saturday night at the New Creek Fire Hall / Bill Wellington.
