Guthrie "Gus" Turner Meade Jr. (May 17, 1932 – February 8, 1991) was an American folklorist of early country music and Kentucky fiddle music.
Early life and education
Meade was born in Louisville, Kentucky 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. During the summers, Meade would travel to Kentucky to record and research Kentucky fiddlers, as well as conduct interviews.
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. 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