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JEMF Quarterly Volume 12 JEMF QUARTERLY AUTUMN 1976 Number 43 CONTENTS Letters Mellie Dunham: "Maine's Champion Fiddler," by Paul F. Wells Sun Records: An Insider's View, by Barbara Sims Who Is Bradley Kincaid? by Loyal Jones Commercial Music Graphics 138: Chulas Fronteras, by Archie Green . 138 Joan Baez: A Bibliography, by Wendy Caesar 147 A Bibliography of Fiddling in North hrica (Part 5), Compiled and Annotated by Michael Mendelson 158 "Sons of Pioneers Day" Fete Brings JEMF $1000 165 Book Reviews: A Texas--xican Cancionero, Polksongs of the Laver Border, by Americo 166 Paredes (Reviewed by Philip Sonnichsen); W Great Jlmerican Popular Singers, by Henry Pleasants (Norm Cohen) Bibliographic Notes 170 Record Reviews 171 Members of the Friends of the JEMF receive the JEMF Quarterly as part of their $8.50 (or more) annual membership dues. Individual subscriptions are $8.50 per year for the current year; Li- brary subscription rates are $10.00 per year. Back issues of Volumes 6-11 (Numbers 17 through 40) are available at $2.00 per copy. (Xerographic and microform copies of JEHFQ are available from University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, Mich .) The JEMF Quarterly is edited by Norm Cohen. Manuscripts that fall within the area of the JEMF1s activities and goals (see inside front cover) are invited, but should be accompanied by an ad- dressed, stamped return envelope. All manuscripts, books and records for review, and other com- munications should be addressed to: Editor, JEW, John Edwards Memorial Foundation, at the Folklore & Mythology Center, University of California, Los Angeles, CA., 90024. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FIDDLING IN NORTH AMERICA (Part 5) Compiled and Annotated by Michael Mendelson [For discussion of the format of this bibliography, see introduction to Part I in JEMFQ #38 (summer 1975) .] MAIN ENTRIES - 19 ALDEN, RAY. +*"Music From Round Peak" OTM 19 (Winter 1975/76) 8-16. Overview of the music from the North Caro- lina region that produced the Jarrells, DaCosta Woltz, Fred Cockerham, and others. ALLEN, N. H. +"Old Time Music and Musicians" The Connecticut Quarterly 1 No. 4 (0ct.-Dec.,lB95) 368-373). Mention of fiddle-makers, fiddlers, tunes, dancing masters. +"American Dance Bibliography to 1820." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 59 part 2 (19 Oct. 1949) 217-220. -- ARRAL, HERB. "Wareham's Haunted Violin" Yankee 30, no. 11 (Nov. 1966) 118-119, 188. BOARDMAN, GREG. +"'Le Reel de St. Anne' & 'Up the River"' Old Time Music Gazette 1, no. 2 (Aug., 1975) 11. Tune transcriptions. +*"Bob Wills'' OTM 17 (Summer 1975) 4. Short obituary with photos. BENNETT, LARRY. +"Fiddle Music in Vermont" Northern Junket 11, no. 5 (May 1973) 6-13. Account of 11th Annual Old Time Fiddlers contest in Craftsbury Common, Vermont. BENTON, MAJOR. +"Heyday for Mellie" Yankee 37, no. 2 (Feb. 1973) 117-123, 170-171. Maine fiddler, Mellie Dunham +*"Clark Kessinger" OTM 17 (Summer 1975) 5. short obituary with photos. COGSWELL, ROBERT. +*"' We Made Our Name In the Days of Radio': A Look At the Career of Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper" --JEMFQ 11 part 2, no. 38 (Summer 1975) 67-79, 88-94. Annotated interview with this popular recording team. COHEN, MIKE & DIANE. +"Report From Lubec, Part 1" Old Time Music Gazette (Aug. 1975) 12, Maine fiddler Jerry MorreU Morrell . COHEN, NORM. +*"Notes On Some Old Time Musicians From Princeton, West Virginia" JEMFQ 8 part 2, no. 26 (Summer 1972) 94-104. Including Bernice "SI" Coleman, Fred Pendleton, Joe Gore, and Richard Harold, all of whom recorded during the late 1920s-early 1930s. Discography. +*"Fiddlin' Sid Harkreader" JEMFQ 8 part 4, no. 28 (Winter 1972) 189-193. Biography-discography with photographs. Harkreader recorded from the 1920s on with various groups including Uncle Dave Macon. Tennessee fiddler. 5 . +*"Fiddlinl John Carson: An Appreciation and a Discography" JEMFQ 10 part 4, no. 36 (Winter 1974) 138- 156. With photos, bibliography, analytic index to discography. I . +*"Clayton McMichen: His Life and Music" JEMFQ 11 part 3, no. 39 (Summer 1975) 117-124. Biography with many photos of early recording Georgia fiddler. t COLE, ARTHUR C. +"The Puritan and Fair Terpsicore" The Mississippi Valley Historical Review 29, no. 1 (June 1942) 3-34. Dance and dance music in early America. Reprinted in pamphlet form by Dance Horizons, Inc. (ca. 19701, 1801 E. 26th St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 11229. I COLTMAN, BOB. +*"Look Out! Here He Comes: Fiddlin' John Carson. Une Of a Kind, and Twice As Feistyt' I (Summer 1973) 16-21. Review of Carson's recording career. +*"Habitantbilly: French-Canadian Old Time Music" OTM 11 (Winter 1973/74) 9-13; 12 (Spring 1974) 9-14. Overview of the tradition, with special mention of fiddlers Isidore Soucy & J. 0. La Madeleine. DAVIS, STEPHEN F. AND ROBERT E. NOBLEY. +*"Norman Edmonds, Mountain Fiddlerf' OM 9 (Summer 1973) 22-23. Short biography-discography of fiddler who recorded in 1927 and in recent times. Reprinted also in Devil's Box, no. 15 (20 dug. 1971) 5-6, and as liner notes to Train on the Island: Traditional Blue Ridge Mountain Fiddling (Davis Unlimited DU-33002). DAVIS, STEPHEN F. AND KEITH TITTERINGTON. +*"'Sleepyf Johnson: Western Swing Pioneer" I (Winter 1972/73) 8-11. Tapescript of interview 1969 in Port Worth, Texas. +*"The Death of Harry Choates" OW 16 (Spring 1975) 13. Reprint of 3 articles on the death of Choates from the Austin America of July 1951. DERYKE, DELORES. +*"Letters to the Editor" JEMFQ 5 part 4, no. 16 (Winter 1969) 121-124. Review of current old- time fiddling scene. DUNKLEBERGER, A. C. +*King of Country Music: The Life Story of Roy Acuff. Nashville: Williams Printing Co. 1971. FAUROT, CHARLES H. +*"An Interview With Denmon Lewis" JEMFQ 6 part 1, no. 17 (Spring 1970) 17-18. Texas fiddler who recorded in the late 1920s. FENTON, MIKE. +*"Impressions of Galax" OTM 18 (Autumn 1975) 5. Photos of the convention. FERRIS, BILL AND JUDY PEISER. +*American Folklore Films and Videotapes: An Index. Memphis, Tenn.: Center for Southern Folklore, 1976. Includes some of fiddling. MAIN ENTRIES - 20 FRANKLIN, REBECCA. +*"Fiddlin' John's Been At It For 71 Years" Atlanta Journal (5 June 1949) [=reprinted in bid ---Time Music 1 (Summer 1971) 20 under the title l'Fiddlin1 John Carson: The Last Interview?"] +*"From the Archives: 'The Arkansas Traveler"' JEMFQ 6 part 2, no. 18 (Summer 1970) 51-57. Discography. Re- printing of H. C. Mercer's "On the Track of the Arkansas Traveler" (Century Magazine 51 no. 5 (March 1896) 707) GIBBS, GILES. JR. +His Book For the Fife: Ellington, Connecticut, 1777, Hartford, Conn: The Connecticut Historical Society 1974. Edited from the original by Kate van Winkle Keller. Tune collection. GREEN, ARCHIE. +*"Commercial Music Graphics: Two" JEMFQ/N 3 part 1, no. 7 (Sept. 1967) 15-17. Short discussion, catalog reprint of Fiddlin' John Carson and Henry Whitter. +*"Commercial Music Graphics: Five1' JEMFQ/N 4 part 2, no. 10 (June 1968) 39-44. Background, discography, and graphics concerning "Uncle Am" Stuart. +*"Commercial Graphics: Nineteen" JEMFQ 7 part 4, no. 24 (Winter 1971) 171-175. DJC Roberts re- cording information, graphics, photos. GREEN, ARCHIE and NORM COHEN. +*"Tapescript: An Interview with Doc Roberts1' JEMFQ 7 part 3, no. 23 (Autumn 1979 99- 104. Kentucky fiddler who recorded from the mid-1920s on. Discography. GREEN, ARCHIE and ED KAHN. +*IfTapescripts: Interview with Rose Lee Carson (Moonshine Kate)" JEMFQ/N 2 part 1, (Nov. 1966) 6-11. Interview of her own and her dad's (Fiddlin' John Carson) musical career. GRIFFIS, KEN. +*"The Harold Hensley Story" JEMFQ 6 part 4, no. 20 (Winter 1970) 146-151. Biography-discography of Virginia born, California-based fiddler. +*"The Hugh Farr Story" JEMFQ 7 part 2, no. 22 (Summer 1971) 68-71. Short biography with photos of the fiddler for the Sons of the Pioneers. +*"The Jesse Ashlock Story" JEMFQ 8 part 3, no. 27 (Autumn 1972) 121-127. Western swing fiddler. Biography-discography , photos. .MANSEN, BARRET E. +*"The American Country Dance" JEMFQ 5 part 1, no. 13 (Spring 1969) 4-6. Short analysis and perspective on the waltz in early wuntry music. ' HARKREADER, SIDNEY J. +*Fiddlinl- --Sidls Memoirs: -The Autobiography of Sidney J. Harkreader. Los Angeles: John Edwards Memorial Foundation. 1976. Fiddler with uncle Dave Macon and other early recording musicians. HATCHER. DANNY R. +*"Bob Wills: Discography of the Columbia Years. 1935-1947'' 5 no. 3-4 (Fall & Winter 1973) 114-134. HEALY, BOB. +*"Shelly Lee Alley: A Discography" JEMFQ 9 part 1, no. 29 (Spring 1973) 33-34. Texas violinist/ wcalist/western swing musician who recorded from the early 1930s on. HILL, FRED LINCOLN. +"Folk Music and Dancing in Maine1' from Music and Dance in the New England States (ed. Sigmund Spaeth), New York: Bureau of Musical Research, 1953, pp. 101-104. Mention of fiddlers, contests. HOEPTNER, FRED and BOB PINSON. +*"Clayton McMichen Talking" A (Suer 1971) 8-10; 2 (Autumn 1971) 13-15; -3 (Winter 1971/72) 14-15. 19; 4 (Spring 1972) 19-20, 30. Interview conducted 7 July 1959. JUNNER, JOHN. +"Scott Skinner: The Strathspey King." The Scots Magazine 74 (1960) 92-97. Biography of Scottish violinist and composer. KERR, JANET. +*"Gray Craig" OTM 12 (Spring 1974) 5. Obituary for the fiddler with the New North Carolina Ramblers. +*"Lonnie Austin/Norman Woodlief" O'M 17 (Summer 1975) 7-10. Two alumni of the North Carolina Ramblers. Included are excerpts from Austin's 1928/29 diary while on the road with "H: M. Barnes' Blue Ridge Ramblers". LEADBITTER. MIKE. +*"Harry Choates, Cajun Fiddle Ace" 5 (Autumn 1972) 20-22. Short biography-discography of the fiddler who made "Jole Blon" a national hit. LEIVERS, GEORGE KENNETH. +*Structure Function of% Old-Time Fiddlers1 Association. Unpublished thesis for M.A. degree in Anthropology.
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