Dwight Diller
Dwight Diller

Author: Lewis M. Stern

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2016-05-09

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1476664765

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Dwight Hamilton Diller is a musician from West Virginia devoted to traditional Appalachian fiddle and banjo music, and a seminary-trained minister steeped in local Christian traditions. For the past 40 years, he has worked to preserve archaic fiddle and banjo tunes, teaching his percussive, primitively rhythmic style to small groups in marathon banjo workshops. This book tells of Diller's life and music, his personal challenges and his decades of teaching an elusive musical form.

Old-Time Conversations
Old-Time Conversations

Author: Craig R. Evans

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2024-05-14

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1476652090

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Disillusioned with business at age 50, the author found himself irresistibly drawn to the joy and sense of community that music had first brought to his youth. Inspired by this rediscovered passion, he embarked on a remarkable 12-year odyssey, capturing the stories of artisans, performers and historians of traditional music across North America now preserved in this volume. These interviewees who represent the heart and soul of old-time music include instrument builders Bart Reiter, Patrick "Doc" Huff, Pete Ross, Zachary Hoyt, Bill Rickard, and William Seeders Mosheim; old-time performers Rayna Gellert, David Holt, James "Sparky" Rucker, Clare Milliner, Mac Benford, Sheila Kay Adams, Paul Brown and John McCutcheon; and historians and authors Dwight Diller, Bill Malone, Don Flemons, and Tim Brooks.

Wayne Howard
Wayne Howard

Author: Lewis M. Stern

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2021-05-20

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 1476642702

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From his birth in Owensboro, Kentucky, in 1947, to his 2020 album featuring the music of Lee Hammons, Wayne Howard has lived an exceptionally creative life. He seemed to be eternally present at fiddle festivals, involved in the creative forces working to preserve Southern Mountain music. In 1969, he relocated to West Virginia and was introduced to the Hammons family by Dwight Diller. Howard then recorded Lee, Sherman, Burl, and Maggie Hammons playing music and telling stories. Howard then became a professional computer programmer, a vintage book collector, and a woodworker, before turning to writing about the Hammons family, and producing CDs of their stories and music. This biography follows the threads of music and folklore through Howard's life, celebrating his profound knowledge that does much to sustain the interest of those who seek out Appalachian tunes, songs, and stories.

Fishin' Creek Blues
Fishin' Creek Blues

Author: Dick Kimmel

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications

Published: 2010-10-07

Total Pages: 49

ISBN-13: 1609744101

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This book presents clawhammer banjo tablatures from the recording Dick Kimmel - Fishin' Creek Blues (Copper Creek Records). the tablatures have been transcribed by Dick Kimmel directly from his playing on the recording. the book is intended for someone with experience playing clawhammer banjo from tablatures and will be most useful when used in conjunction with the recording. the arrangements represent a spectrum of approaches to clawhammer banjo, from solo clawhammer banjo to clawhammer banjo within an old-time string band context and clawhammer banjo as it would be played within a more modern band setting where all instruments are featured for solos.

American Folktales: From the Collections of the Library of Congress
American Folktales: From the Collections of the Library of Congress

Author: Carl Lindahl

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-03-17

Total Pages: 703

ISBN-13: 1317477227

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This two-volume collection of folktales represents some of the finest examples of American oral tradition. Drawn from the largest archive of American folk culture, the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, this set comprises magic tales, legends, jokes, tall tales and personal narratives, many of which have never been transcribed before, much less published, in a sweeping survey. Eminent folklorist and award-winning author Carl Lindahl selected and transcribed over 200 recording sessions - many from the 1920s and 1930s - that span the 20th century, including recent material drawn from the September 11 Project. Included in this varied collection are over 200 tales organized in chapters by storyteller, tale type or region, and representing diverse American cultures, from Appalachia and the Midwest to Native American and Latino traditions. Each chapter begins by discussing the storytellers and their oral traditions before presenting and introducing each tale, making this collection accessible to high school students, general readers or scholars.