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

  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.
  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
  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.
  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.
  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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