Gus Meade Explained

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.

External links

• http://uncpress.unc.edu/books/T-6911.html/ Country Music Sources, A Biblio-Discography of Commercially Recorded Traditional Music

Notes and References

1. Book: Wayne Erbsen. Old-Time Fiddle for the Complete Ignoramus!. 9 January 2005. Native Ground Books & Music. 978-1-883206-48-2. 66–.
2. Book: Ryan J. Thomson. The Fiddler's Almanac. 1 January 1985. Captain Fiddle Publications. 978-0-931877-00-1. 92–.
3. http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/m/Meade,Guthrie_T.html/ "Biographical Note," Guthrie T. Meade Collection (#20246), Southern Folklife Collection
4. Book: George List. Indiana University, Bloomington. Archives of Traditional Music. Singing about it: folk song in southern Indiana. 1991. Indiana Historical Society. 978-0-87195-086-4. 30.
5. Book: The Devil's Box. 1995. Tennessee Valley Old Time Fiddlers' Association.. 18.
6. Book: Rick Kennedy. Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy: Gennett Records and the Rise of America's Musical Grassroots. 2013. Indiana University Press. 978-0-253-00747-6. 260–.
7. Book: Nolan Porterfield. Exploring Roots Music: Twenty Years of the JEMF Quarterly. 2004. Scarecrow Press. 978-0-8108-4893-1. 24–.