User contributions for RodStradling

28 March 2007

• 10:1010:10, 28 March 2007 diff hist +755‎ N Mikey Kelleher ‎ New page: '''Mikey Kelleher:''' (1907-1987).  Although born and reared in Quilty, he left for England in 1942, working in Bristol and Nottingham and eventually settling in London.  We reco... current
• 10:0910:09, 28 March 2007 diff hist +657‎ N Ollie Conway ‎ New page: '''Ollie Conway:''' Singer, dancer, farmer and publican of Conway’s Bar in Mullagh, Ollie was the first person we recorded in Clare.  The amazingly warm welcome Ollie gave to two co... current
• 10:0810:08, 28 March 2007 diff hist +1,053‎ N 'Pops' Johnny Connors ‎ New page: '''‘Pops’ Johnny Connors:''' is originally from Co Wexford, and is related to the famous family of traditional musicians, the Dorans.  He was an activist in the movement for bette...

27 March 2007

• 14:4414:44, 27 March 2007 diff hist +468‎ N Paul Brown ‎ New page: '''Paul Brown:''' Although born in New York State, Paul had been living in the mountains for a number of years before I met him.  A highly talented banjo-player, he has played with mo... current
• 14:4414:44, 27 March 2007 diff hist +17‎ Music ‎ →‎Traditional Players
• 14:4314:43, 27 March 2007 diff hist +524‎ N Robert Sykes ‎ New page: '''Robert Sykes:''' was a near neighbour of Tommy Jarrell.  A few years younger than Tommy, he had leant to play the fiddle in his youth, but had not played in years.  Tommy, how... current
• 14:4314:43, 27 March 2007 diff hist +782‎ N John Hobson ‎ New page: '''John Hobson:''' Oscar ‘Red’ Wilson, a fiddle-player from Bakersville, suggested that I should meet John Hobson, ‘a real down-home’ player, according to ‘Red’.  John was... current
• 14:4214:42, 27 March 2007 diff hist +11‎ Music ‎ →‎Traditional Players
• 14:3814:38, 27 March 2007 diff hist +578‎ N Mitchel Hopson ‎ New page: '''Mitchel Hopson:''' It was raining when I drove up Plum Branch to record Mitch Hopson.  I had been told that he was a clawhammer banjo-player (which he was) and was pleasantly surpr... current
• 14:3814:38, 27 March 2007 diff hist +956‎ N Tommy Jarrell ‎ New page: '''Tommy Jarrell:''' was the son of fiddler Ben Jarrell who recorded sixteen superb sides with Da Costa Woltz’s Southern Broadcasters in 1927.  (These are available on the reissue D...
• 14:3714:37, 27 March 2007 diff hist +833‎ N Walt Davis ‎ New page: '''Walt Davis and Jay C McCool:''' Sharp had visited the area around the town of Black Mountain, just outside Asheville in 1916 and I was interested to see what sort of music could be foun... current
• 14:3614:36, 27 March 2007 diff hist +41‎ Song ‎ →‎Traditional Singers
• 14:3314:33, 27 March 2007 diff hist +1,176‎ N Dellie Norton ‎ New page: '''Dellie Norton''' and '''Inez Chandler:''' were both from Sodom Laurel, although Inez had moved a few miles to the town of Marshall when I met her.  Dellie, who was born in1898, liv... current
• 14:3314:33, 27 March 2007 diff hist +635‎ N Vergie Wallin ‎ New page: '''Vergie Wallin:''' the wife of Cas Wallin, loved to sing, although her tendency to let her songs merge together, coupled with the fact that she would sometimes sing at breakneck speed, m... current
• 14:3214:32, 27 March 2007 diff hist +659‎ N Garrett Arwood ‎ New page: '''Garrett Arwood''' and '''Norah Arwood:''' I first came across Garrett’s name as a fiddle maker in volume 4 of the Foxfire books (Anchor Press, New York. 1977. pp.116-122).  Garre... current
• 14:3114:31, 27 March 2007 diff hist +336‎ Doug Wallin ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2914:29, 27 March 2007 diff hist +464‎ N Morris Norton ‎ New page: '''Morris Norton:''' was Evelyn Ramsey’s father.  A singer and mouth-bow player - who also played the fiddle and banjo - he was rather frail when I met him and only managed to sing ... current
• 14:2814:28, 27 March 2007 diff hist +718‎ N Ethel Birchfield ‎ New page: '''Ethel Birchfield:''' and her family lived on a farm at the top of Roan Mountain in Tennessee, just a few miles from the home of John Hobson.  (In fact, they were related to John an... current
• 14:2614:26, 27 March 2007 diff hist −5‎ Hattie Presnell ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2514:25, 27 March 2007 diff hist +1,285‎ N Hattie Presnell ‎ New page: '''Hattie Presnell:''' In the 1940s and ‘50s Anne & Frank Warner collected a lot of material on Beech Mountain, in Watauga County, NC (See Anne Warner’s ''Traditional American Folk Son...
• 14:2414:24, 27 March 2007 diff hist +80‎ N Story telling ‎ New page: ==Story Tellers== '''American:''' * Ethel Birchfield * Hattie Presnell
• 13:4413:44, 27 March 2007 diff hist +944‎ N Pearl Richardson ‎ New page: '''Stella Kimble''' and '''Pearl Richardson:''' I went to Laurel Fork in search of fiddle-player Taylor Kimble.  Taylor was extremely ill and, though confined to a wheelchair, insiste... current
• 13:4113:41, 27 March 2007 diff hist +31‎ Song ‎ →‎Traditional Singers
• 13:3913:39, 27 March 2007 diff hist +12‎ Song ‎ →‎Traditional Singers
• 13:3313:33, 27 March 2007 diff hist +17‎ Music ‎ →‎Traditional Players
• 13:3013:30, 27 March 2007 diff hist +341‎ N Sherman Wimmer ‎ New page: '''Sherman Wimmer:''' was yet another tobacco farmer.  He lived alone on a wooded hillside overlooking Boones Mill and played me a number of tunes that he had first performed for moun... current
• 13:3013:30, 27 March 2007 diff hist +649‎ N Rob Tate ‎ New page: '''Rob Tate:''' a distant, and younger, relative of Dan Tate, lived further up the mountain from Dan.  Rob preferred to play songs and tunes from the l920s and ‘30s, such as ''Wildw... current
• 13:2913:29, 27 March 2007 diff hist +715‎ N Charlie Woods ‎ New page: '''Charlie Woods:''' Like many of his neighbours, Charlie was a tobacco farmer who was equally adept on both banjo and fiddle.  He was the first Appalachian instrumentalist that I rec... current
• 13:2813:28, 27 March 2007 diff hist +765‎ N Ted Boyd ‎ New page: '''Ted Boyd:''' in his early-seventies, was sitting on the veranda of his home when I arrived.  He quickly agreed to let me record him and, as he began to play, a younger neighbour, ... current
• 13:2813:28, 27 March 2007 diff hist +843‎ N William Marshall ‎ New page: '''William Marshall''' and '''Howard Hall'''.  When I went to find the banjo-player Calvin Cole I knocked at a house for directions.  Seeing a banjo case in the hallway I asked t... current
• 13:2713:27, 27 March 2007 diff hist +700‎ N Sam Connor ‎ New page: '''Sam Connor:''' lived at Copper Hill in Floyd County.  After recording a number of his fiddle and banjo tunes he insisted that we went to the small town of Floyd to meet his friend,... current
• 13:2713:27, 27 March 2007 diff hist +17‎ Music ‎ →‎Traditional Players
• 13:2613:26, 27 March 2007 diff hist −5‎ Evelyn Ramsey ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2513:25, 27 March 2007 diff hist +1,380‎ N Evelyn Ramsey ‎ New page: '''Evelyn and Douston Ramsey:''' had a small tobacco farm in the deep mountains of Madison County.  Douston was the brother of the well-known Madison County singer and banjo-player Ob...
• 13:2413:24, 27 March 2007 diff hist 0‎ Stanley Hicks ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2313:23, 27 March 2007 diff hist +1,772‎ N Stanley Hicks ‎ New page: '''Stanley Hicks:''' was living on Stone Mountain in Ashe County, close to Beech Mountain.  A singer, story-teller and instrument maker (banjo and dulcimer), Stanley was a delight to ...
• 13:2213:22, 27 March 2007 diff hist +944‎ N Stella Kimble ‎ New page: '''Stella Kimble''' and '''Pearl Richardson:''' I went to Laurel Fork in search of fiddle-player Taylor Kimble.  Taylor was extremely ill and, though confined to a wheelchair, insiste... current
• 13:2113:21, 27 March 2007 diff hist +782‎ N Calvin Cole ‎ New page: '''Calvin and Viola Cole:''' lived in a mobile home across from Howard Hall’s home.  They were an extremely friendly couple, only too willing to let me listen to their music.  ... current
• 13:2013:20, 27 March 2007 diff hist +968‎ N Eunice Yeatts MacAlexander ‎ New page: '''Eunice Yeatts MacAlexander.'''  Cecil Sharp visited Meadows of Dan (so-called because it is the headwater of the Dan River) in Patrick County, on the 27th August, 1918, and noted a... current
• 13:1913:19, 27 March 2007 diff hist +1,918‎ N Dan Tate ‎ New page: '''Dan Tate:''' was born in 1896 and must at one time have known a phenomenal number of songs and banjo tunes.  Though frail and almost totally blind, his welcome to a complete strang... current
• 11:5511:55, 27 March 2007 diff hist +735‎ N Bill Ellson ‎ New page: '''Bill Ellson:''' was also settled.  Born in 1916 in south London, his maternal grandfather was a Penfold.  Bill’s parents were general dealers who worked with horse-drawn veh...
• 11:5311:53, 27 March 2007 diff hist +754‎ N Alice Penfold ‎ New page: '''Alice Penfold:''' unlike Joe and Lena Jones or the Smiths or Willetts, was settled with her husband and daughters in a bungalow in Sussex in the early 1970s.  Many of her songs had...
• 11:5211:52, 27 March 2007 diff hist +1,257‎ N Chris Willett ‎ New page: '''Chris Willett:''' was the son of Tom Willett.  He had recorded an LP of family songs with his father and brother for Topic Records in the 1960’s (''The Willett Family'' - Topic 1...
• 11:5111:51, 27 March 2007 diff hist +10‎ Song ‎ →‎Traditional Singers
• 11:5011:50, 27 March 2007 diff hist +12‎ Joe Jones ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4911:49, 27 March 2007 diff hist +503‎ N Joe Jones ‎ New page: '''Joe Jones:''', or ‘Sharper’s Joe’ - after his father, Sharper Jones - (or even ‘Joe Cooper’ as I heard him addressed on one occasion) and his wife Lena were living in an old c...
• 11:4811:48, 27 March 2007 diff hist +6‎ JLM Smith ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4711:47, 27 March 2007 diff hist +1,379‎ N JLM Smith ‎ New page: '''Jasper Smith''' and '''Levi Smith:''' were introduced to me by one of their friends, Cecily Taylor, who felt that somebody should record their songs.  I met Jasper, Levi and their ...
• 11:4611:46, 27 March 2007 diff hist +10‎ Song ‎ →‎Traditional Singers
• 11:4411:44, 27 March 2007 diff hist +30‎ Song ‎ →‎Traditional Singers