I got an email from a neighbor of Phebel who mentioned that he had some additional recordings of Wright on cassette. He told me if I sent him an address he would send a copy, but so far no dice. Still hoping, though.
________________________________ From: Rich DelGrosso <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 10:38:31 AM Subject: RE: Linthead Stomp - the book It does sound good. I assume you all know the song "Linthead Stomp" by Phebel Wright, the Kentucky bluegrass player from the fifties. I would like to know more about Wright and I hope this book sheds some light. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 14strings Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 8:02 AM To: Taterbugmando Subject: Linthead Stomp - the book Here's a review I just read in the magazine "The Atlantic"; looks interesting. Has anybody read this book? Linthead Stomp: The Creation of Country Music in the Piedmont South Patrick Huber North Carolina A new, canny take on Old, Weird America, this colorful, contrarian book does much to dispel a spate of antediluvian tropes, musical and otherwise. The myth holds that prewar country music was a grassroots phenomenon, made and popularized by pickin'-and-grinnin' farmhands. But Huber, a history professor and co-author of The 1920s: American Popular Culture Through History, argues that it was Piedmont cities and mill towns and their industrial workforce that disseminated the region's rich sounds. Drawing on a wealth of archival sources and recordings, he asserts that country music circa 1922 to 1942 was, "in fact, as thoroughly modern in its origins and evolution as its quintessentially modern counterpart, jazz." Turning a welcome spotlight on talented oddballs such as Charlie Poole, Fiddlin' John Carson, and the Dixon Brothers, he elucidates the experiences, equally civilizing and compromising, of millhands in a rapidly industrializing South. And he contextualizes the give-and-take of the music and its makers-how, exactly, new social identities emerged, regional allegiances congealed, and a proto-countrypolitan sensibility took root and flourished in times both culturally and economically turbulent. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Taterbugmando" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
