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

Meade was born in Louisville, Kentucky^[4] to Sarah Isabel Ballard and Guthrie Turner Meade Sr.

Career

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

^ 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

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

[Erbsen2005-1] Wayne Erbsen (9 January 2005). Old-Time Fiddle for the Complete Ignoramus!. Native Ground Books & Music. pp. 66–. ISBN 978-1-883206-48-2.

[Thomson1985-2] Ryan J. Thomson (1 January 1985). The Fiddler's Almanac. Captain Fiddle Publications. pp. 92–. ISBN 978-0-931877-00-1.

[3] "Biographical Note," Guthrie T. Meade Collection (#20246), Southern Folklife Collection University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

[ListMusic1991-4] 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.

[5] The Devil's Box. Tennessee Valley Old Time Fiddlers' Association. 1995. p. 18.

[Kennedy2013-6] 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.

[Porterfield2004-7] Nolan Porterfield (2004). Exploring Roots Music: Twenty Years of the JEMF Quarterly. Scarecrow Press. pp. 24–. ISBN 978-0-8108-4893-1.

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