Mountains of music : West Virginia traditional music from Goldenseal
Title:
Mountains of music : West Virginia traditional music from Goldenseal
JLCTITLE245:
edited by John Lilly.
Publication Information:
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1999.
Physical Description:
231 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
ISBN:
9780252024993
9780252068157
Series:
Series Title:
Music in American life
General Note:
Articles from the quarterly Goldenseal.
Includes index.
Bibliography Note:
Includes discography.
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Goldenseal.
Contents:
Introduction / John Lilly -- 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 -- 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" / Robert Spence. "A Real Fine Looking Man": Aunt Jennie Remembers Frank Hutchison / Robert Spence -- Andrew F. Boarman: The Banjo Man from Berkeley County / Peggy Jarvis and Dick Kimmel -- Charlie Blevins at the Red Robin Inn: The Coon Dog Truth / Michael Kline -- Russell Fluharty: The Dulcimer Man / Ken Sullivan -- Worley Gardner: Mountain Music, Dance, and Dulcimers / Mark Crabtree -- Patty Looman: Carrying on the Music / Danny Williams -- 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 -- 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 Goodnite 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" / Bill Wellington. "A Good Clean Square Dance Is a Very Fine Thing": Saturday Night at New Creek Fire Hall / Bill Wellington.