Gus Meade
Guthrie "Gus" Turner Meade Jr. (May 17, 1932 – February 8, 1991) was an American folklorist of early country music[1] and Kentucky fiddle music.[2][3]
Early life and education
[edit]Meade was born in Louisville, Kentucky[4] to Sarah Isabel Ballard and Guthrie Turner Meade Sr.
Career
[edit]Meade served in the US Air Force where he started his career as a computer programmer and systems analyst. In 1965, he began working at the Library of Congress Folk Music Archives.[5] During the summers, Meade would travel to Kentucky to record and research Kentucky fiddlers, as well as conduct interviews.[6]
For the remainder of his life, Meade researched and collaborated with other fiddle and traditional folk music scholars, annotating a comprehensive discography of some 14,500 recordings. This work was published in "Country Music Sources", which was finalized and published shortly after his death in 1991.[7] The Guthrie T. Meade Collection is housed in the Southern Folklife Collection in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library.
References
[edit]- ↑ Wayne Erbsen (9 January 2005). Old-Time Fiddle for the Complete Ignoramus!. Native Ground Books & Music. pp. 66–. ISBN 978-1-883206-48-2.
- ↑ Ryan J. Thomson (1 January 1985). The Fiddler's Almanac. Captain Fiddle Publications. pp. 92–. ISBN 978-0-931877-00-1.
- ↑ "Biographical Note," Guthrie T. Meade Collection (#20246), Southern Folklife Collection University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- ↑ George List; Indiana University, Bloomington. Archives of Traditional Music (1991). Singing about it: folk song in southern Indiana. Indiana Historical Society. p. 30. ISBN 978-0-87195-086-4.
- ↑ The Devil's Box. Tennessee Valley Old Time Fiddlers' Association. 1995. p. 18.
- ↑ Rick Kennedy (2013). Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy: Gennett Records and the Rise of America's Musical Grassroots. Indiana University Press. pp. 260–. ISBN 978-0-253-00747-6.
- ↑ Nolan Porterfield (2004). Exploring Roots Music: Twenty Years of the JEMF Quarterly. Scarecrow Press. pp. 24–. ISBN 978-0-8108-4893-1.
External links
[edit]- http://uncpress.unc.edu/books/T-6911.html/ Archived 2013-06-06 at the Wayback Machine Country Music Sources, A Biblio-Discography of Commercially Recorded Traditional Music
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