String Bands in the North Carolina Piedmont
- Author: Carlin, Bob
a book that should be eagerly welcomed by serious students of country-music history...attractive and meticulous...thorough researcher, Carlin writes very well —
Book
$33.00Out of stock at the UK distributor
Contents
- Table of Contents
- Foreword by Steve Terrill
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. True Believers
- 2. African Americans and String Band Music
- 3. “Anything That I Knew Was Something I Heard Him Play”
- 4. “I Can’t Remember When I Didn’t Go to a Square Dance”
- 5. “Music Made the Day Seem Grander”
- 6. “The Fiddlers Fairly Lifted the Roof with ‘Mississippi Sawyer’”
- 7. “Mountain Folk Music Is Being Recorded Here”
- 8. “He Was Looking for Those Who Lived Isolated Lives”: Bascom Lamar Lunsford’s Discoveries
- 9. Broadcasting the Old North State: Stations, Programs and Personalities
- 10. The Professionals
- 11. Bluegrass
- Appendix: “Mountain Folk Music Is Being Recorded Here: Talent from Three States Recording at Studio in Old West End School Building”
- Bibliography
- Index