Old Time Books ~ General (17)

[Ptarmigan]

1 - Farmhouse Music & Dance Traditions in the Rural Midwest ~ Philip Martin

2 - An Appalachian Family and the Music That Shaped Their Lives ~ Ivan M. Tribe

3 - Voices From The Mountains ~ Guy and Candie Carawan

4 - Country Roots: The Origins of Country Music ~ Douglas B. Green

5 - Lost Highway: Journeys and Arrivals of American Musicians ~ Peter Guralnick

6 - Sing Your Heart Out Country Boy ~ Dorothy Horstman

7 - Country Music USA ~ Bill Malone

8 - Southern Music, American Music ~ Bill Malone

9 - A Picture History of Country and Western music ~ Robert Shelton and Burt Goldblatt

10 - The Grand Ole Opry: The Early Years ~ Charles Wolfe

11 - The American Folk Scene ~ David De Turk and A. Poulin JR

12 - Adventures of a Ballad Hunter ~ John Lomax

13 - A Treasury Of American Folklore ~ B.A Botkin

14 - White, Spirituals in the Southern Uplands George Pullen Jackson

15 - Eighty English Folk Songs From the Southern Appalachians ~ Cecil Sharp & Maud Karpeles

16 - English and American Folk Music ~ Richard Carlin

17 - Blacks, Whites, and Blues ~ Tony Russell

[john]

Hi Dick,
here are some more books to the collection
Guy and Candie Carawan..Voices From The Mountains Knopf ,New York 1975
Douglas B. Green....Country Roots.The Origins of Country Music Hawtorne New York 1976
Peter Guralnick ... Lost Highway.. Boston MA David Godine 1979
Doroty Horstman..Sing Your Heart Out, Country Boy..Nashville Country Music Foundation Press 1986
Bill Malone ... Country Music USA... University Of Texas Press 1968
Bill Malone.... Southern Music, American Music..Lexinton.. Uni. of Kentucky Press
Robert Sheldon and Burt Goldblatt..The Country Music Story. New York, Castle 1966
Charles Wolfe..The Grand Ole Opry.The Early Years,,London Old Time Music 1975
David De Turk and A. Poulin JR. ..The American Folk Scene New York Dell-Laurel 1967
John Lomax.. Adventures of a Ballad Hunter..New York Macmillan 1947
B.A Botkin.. A Treasury Of American Folklore.. New York.. Crown Publishers 1944
George Pullen Jackson.. White, Spirituals in the Southern Uplands, Hatboro 1964
Cecil Sharp and Maud Karpeles ..Eighty English Folk Songs From the Southern Appalachians, Cambridge the Mitt Press 1968
Richard Carlin... English and American Folk Music... The World of Music- Fact On Files Publications New York-Oxford, England1987
You can get them in 2.hand book stores ore at the local library
cheers,
john

[Ptarmigan]

Good Job John ... that list certainly looks much healthier & far more interesting now!

I assume you've read all those books yourself!

Sadly, I don't seem to get much time to read books these days.
Maybe that comes with age, I wonder do we all tend to focus in on the things that really matter to us?
If so, I must try really hard to resist that urge, if I really do intend to live forever!

On that note, I was speaking to a musical friend last week who is in his 70s, & although he's interested in music he doesn't actually play himself. Anyway, he was saying that nowadays he finds it harder & harder to motivate himself to do anything at all.
I reckon us musicians then are probably blessed, cause I don't know about you, but I fully intend to keep playing till I drop .... they'll have to break my fingers to get the Fiddle Bow out of my Death Grip! ;D

Oh & by the way, I have no silly dreams of Harps & Fluffy clouds cause I'll be down below rippin' into good Old Time toons at a roastin' Session with the Devil himself!

Cheers
Dick

[john]

Hi Dick and thanks,
yes, I guess we are blessed in a way. I, for my part, will play music until they are coming to take me away ha ha, to the funny farm or the church yard. Again, I know many very fine musicians who
have given up playing music. Domestic problems. A pity!!! Music has been my mistress for 42 odd years now. If I had to give it up now I dont know what I will do! Oh, yes I will start reading and writing about it more often than I do.
cheers,
John