Fiddlin' Charlie Bowman
Subtitle: an East Tennessee old-time music pioneer and his musical family
By: Bob L. Cox ; with an afterword by Archie Green.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781572335660
Subjects: Bowman, Charlie; Fiddlers -- Tennessee -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-215), discography (p. [183]-185), and index.
Table of contents: title: Charlie's growing years, 1889-1910. A fiddler's first notes; title: Charlie's working years, 1911-1946. Fannie's fiddler beau ; Birth of a string band ; A hillbilly Hill Billie ; Recording in the Big Apple ; "Uncle Fuzz" comes to town  ; WOPI : over the air on the state line ; The Blue Ridge Ramblers ; Charlie's Variety Five ; Charlie's Blue Ridge Music Makers ; Charlie's Southern Mountaineers ; The Dwight Butcher Gang ; Charlie's Buckle Busters ; The Rice Brothers Gang; title: Charlie's resting years, 1947-1962. Charlie's fiddle rests ; The aging fiddler rediscovered ; Time to "roll on Buddy" ; Alive through his music.