Always Been a Rambler

G.B. Grayson and Henry Whitter, Country Music Pioneers of Southern Appalachia

Josh Beckworth (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

234 Seiten

2018
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-6729-4 (ISBN)

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G.B. Grayson and Henry Whitter were two of the most influential artists in the early days of country music. Featuring never before published photographs and using interviews from friends and relatives, as well as contemporary scholarship, this book is the first to fully explore their lives and songs. It also examines the Southern Appalachian world that shaped their music.

GB. Grayson and Henry Whitter were two of the most influential artists in the early days of country music. Songs they popularized--"Tom Dooley," "Little Maggie," "Handsome Molly," and "Nine Pound Hammer"--are still staples of traditional music. Although the duo sold tens of thousands of records during the 1920s, the details of their lives remain largely unknown.

Featuring never before published photographs and interviews with friends and relatives, this book chronicles for the first time the romantic intrigues and tragic deaths that marked their lives and explores the Southern Appalachian culture that shaped their music.

Josh Beckworth is a high school English teacher. He has received the W. Amos Abrams prize from the North Carolina Folklore Society and published in the North Carolina Folklore Journal. He lives in Crumpler, North Carolina.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Biography and History

A Dark Road Is a Hard Road to Travel: Brief Biographies of Grayson and Whitter

Straddling the Appalachian Divide: Fries and Laurel Bloomery

Henry Whitter and the Creation of Country Music

The Long Shadow of G.B. Grayson

I Wish I Was Single Again: Marriage and Divorce in the Grayson and Whitter Families

Grayson, Whitter and the Hill Billies: Manufacturers of Music

James W.M. Grayson, Tom Dula and the Appalachian Civil War

The Courthouse Massacre

On the Trail of Nancy Blevins

The Music

Overview

The Dance Tunes

The Murder Ballads

Folksongs of the British Isles

The Victorian Songs

The Temperance Songs

The Railroad Songs

The Tin Pan Alley Songs

The Comedy Songs

American Folk Songs

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	11.07.2018
Reihe/Serie	Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies
Zusatzinfo	61 photos, notes, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	295 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	1-4766-6729-2 / 1476667292
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-6729-4 / 9781476667294
Zustand	Neuware