# Ginny Hawker and Tracy Schwarz

Ginny Hawker and Tracy Schwarz sind ein US-amerikanisches Folkmusik-Duo, das dafür bekannt ist, traditionelle Musik wie Bluegrass, Gospel und Old Time Music zu spielen. Das Duo nimmt jedoch gelegentlich Original-Songs und Musik zeitgenössischer Songwriter auf. Sie leben in West Virginia.

## Geschichte

Das Duo gründeten die beiden 1988.

### Ginny Hawker

Hawker wuchs bei ihrem Vater auf. In der Kindheit lebte sie in Süd-Virginia. Sie hat auch Soloalben aufgenommen.

### Tracy Schwarz

Tracy Schwarz war Mitglied der New Lost City Ramblers. Mit diesen wollte er südliche Musik in den Städten bekannter machen.

## Themen

In ihren Songs wollen die beiden die Landkultur der US-Südstaaten ausdrücken. Sie thematisieren Themen, die die Menschen in den bergigen Gebieten bewegen. Auch persönliche Geschichten werden besungen.

## Diskographie
### Ginny Hawker and Tracy Schwarz

* Draw Closer (2004, Rounder)
* Good Songs for Hard Times (2000, Copper Creek)

### Ginny Hawker

* Letters from My Father, Ginny Hawker (2001 Rounder)
* Bristol, A Tribute to the Carter Family, Ginny Hawker & Kay Justice (1999, Copper Creek/June Appal)
* Heart of a Singer, Hazel Dickens, Carol Elizabeth Jones, and Ginny Hawker (1998 Rounder)
* Come All You Tenderhearted, Ginny Hawker & Kay Justice (1995, June Appal)
* Signs & Wonders, Ginny Hawker & Kay Justice (June Appal)
* Pathway to West Virginia, Ginny Hawker & Kay Justice (Pathway)

### Tracy Schwarz

* New Lost City Ramblers: 40 Years of Concert Recordings (2001 Rounder)
* There Ain’t No Way Out, The New Lost City Ramblers (1997 Smithsonian Folkways)
* A Cajun Practice Music Tape, Tracy Schwarz
* Mes Amis!, The Tracy Schwarz Cajun Trio (1996, Swallow)
* Feel Bad Sometime (1990 Marimac Recordings)
* Louisiana and You (1991 Marimac Recordings)
* The Tracy Schwarz Cajun Trio (1993, Swallow)
* How to Play the Cajun Accordion, Marc Savoy and Tracy Schwarz
* Strange Creek Singers (1972, Arhoolie)
* 50 Years: Where Do You Come From? Where Do You Go? (2009 Smithsonian Folkways)
* Cajun Fiddle, Old and New: Instruction (1977 Smithsonian Folkways)
* Classic Old-Time Fiddle from Smithsonian Folkways (2007 Smithsonian Folkways)
* Dancing Bow and Singing Strings (1979 Smithsonian Folkways)
* Down Home with Tracy and Eloise Schwarz (1978 Smithsonian Folkways)
* Learn to Fiddle Country Style (1965 Smithsonian Folkways)
* Les Quatre Vieux Garçons:Dewey and Tony Balfa, and Tracy and Peter Schwarz (1984 Smithsonian Folkways)
* Look Out! Here It Comes (1975 Smithsonian Folkways)
* Modern Times: The New Lost City Ramblers (1968 Smithsonian Folkways)
* On the Great Divide: The New Lost City Ramblers (1975 Smithsonian Folkways)
* Out Standing in Their Field: The New Lost City Ramblers, Vol . 2, 1963-1973 (1993 Smithsonian Folkways)
* Remembrance of Things to Come: The New Lost City Ramblers (1973 Smithsonian Folkways)
* Rural Delivery No. 1: The New Lost City Ramblers (1964 Smithsonian Folkways)
* String Band Instrumentals: The New Lost City Ramblers (1964 Smithsonian Folkways)
* The Harry Smith Connection: A Live Tribute to the Anthology of American Folk Music (1998 Smithsonian Folkways)
* The New New Lost City Ramblers with Tracy Schwarz: Gone to the Country (1963 Smithsonian Folkways)
* Tracy Schwarz’s Fiddler's Companion (1981 Smithsonian Folkways)
* Tracy’s Family Band: Rode the Mule Around the World (1981 Smithsonian Folkways)
* Traditional Cajun Fiddle: Instruction (1976 Smithsonian Folkways)