Gus Meade
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
[edit | edit source]Meade was born in Louisville, Kentucky[4] to Sarah Isabel Ballard and Guthrie Turner Meade Sr.
Career
[edit | edit source]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.
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- 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
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