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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Fiddling John Carson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Carson was called to New York to record more of the music from his considerable repertoire of old-time ballads and traditional fiddle tunes.
		Carson was frequently accompanied on radio, records, and stage by his daughter Rosa Lee (1911-92), a guitarist, singer, and dancer.
		Fiddlin' John Carson spent the last years of his life as an elevator operator in Georgia's state capitol, a job earned as a reward for years spent entertaining prospective voters at campaign rallies for Georgia governors Eugene and Herman Talmadge.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Fiddling-John-Carson (297 words)

	New Georgia Encyclopedia: Fiddlin' John Carson (ca. 1868-1949)
		Carson was called to New York to record more of the music from his considerable repertoire of old-time ballads and traditional fiddle tunes.
		Carson was frequently accompanied on radio, records, and stage by his daughter Rosa Lee (1911-92), a guitarist, singer, and dancer.
		Fiddlin' John Carson spent the last years of his life as an elevator operator in Georgia's state capitol, a job earned as a reward for years spent entertaining prospective voters at campaign rallies for Georgia governors Eugene and Herman Talmadge.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-892 (745 words)

	WSB History 1920s People
		Her father, Fiddlin' John Carson, made the first successful country record in 1923 and went on to become one of the most extensively recorded country stars of the 1920s.
		Rosa Lee Carson, born in Atlanta on October 10, 1909, was the youngest of nine children of Jenny Nora Scroggins and John Carson.
		Carson made her recording debut in June 1925 at the age of fifteen, when she accompanied her father on guitar on four songs for OKeh Records.
	wsbhistory.com /1920s_people.htm (3540 words)

	Fiddling John Carson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fiddling John Carson (1868 - 1949) was an important early country fiddler.
		He was born on a farm north of Smyrna (Cobb County), Georgia on March 23rd, 1868.
		Through his extensive recordings and personal appearances at fiddling contests, Carson became a darling of the mass media and was written about more than any other figure from the "golden age" of the 1920’s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fiddling_John_Carson (104 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for fiddling
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	www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=fiddling (1197 words)

	PBS - American Roots Music : The Songs and the Artists - Fiddlin John Carson
		The first major fiddling champ and recording star, Fiddlin' John Carson (1868 - 1949) was first recorded in 1923 and by 1925 was a sensation.
		With Fiddlin' John hawking them from the stage of the next Fiddler's convention, Brockman promptly sold every disc.
		Carson's complete recordings are available on a series of seven CDs from Document Records.
	www.pbs.org /americanrootsmusic/pbs_arm_saa_fiddlinjohncarson.html (131 words)

	Fiddlin' John Carson: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Carson was born in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Georgia in 1868, and worked in cotton mills for over 20 years until his fiddling talents won several contests.
		Carson was brought to New York late in 1923 to begin recording the first of his over 150 sides for the label.
		Carson's fortunes declined during the Depression, however; his final recordings were for Victor Bluebird in 1934.
	music.com /person/fiddlin_john_carson/1 (382 words)

	Leonardo Digital Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		As with many visionaries and those who challenge the system, Carson was persecuted, ridiculed by other scientists, and, of course, concerted efforts were made by the chemical companies to discredit her claims and her qualifications to make those claims.
		One of the main points of attack was that Carson was not a specialist in the areas of concern.
		She herself did not make claims to be writing as a specialist; in fact, her approach was holistic, and it was only through this approach that the dangers she exposed could be understood.
	mitpress2.mit.edu /e-journals/Leonardo/reviews/jan2005/wild_harle.html (745 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Fiddling had existed in the United States for nearly three centuries prior to the beginning of country music as a commercial popular music genre, and has its roots in European dance music traditions.
		The word "fiddle," in several variant spellings, has been used to designate various bowed stringed instruments since the twelfth century, and when the violin emerged in the middle of the sixteenth century, it acquired the name "fiddle" as an informal appellation.
		Fiddle tunes typically consist of two distinct melodic sections, each of which is played twice in an AABB pattern for one complete execution of the tune.
	www.countrymusichalloffame.com /explore/instruments.html (3415 words)

	SFR-DU-33015 Fiddling Doc Roberts Classic Fiddle Tunes
		On the vocal numbers, the trio became known as Martin and Roberts (Doc played fiddle or mandolin, but sang on only two records in his entire career) while on the instrumentals the records were issued under Docâs name or as the Doc Roberts Trio.
		A standard number from the early days of fiddle recordings to the modern bluegrass festival, this tune was also recorded early by Al Hopkins and the Hillbillies and by Charlie Pooleâs North Carolina Ramblers as âShootinâ Creekâ.
		This tune was recorded by the Al Hopkins band and Fiddlingâ John Carson prior to the Roberts recording.
	www.springfedrecords.com /SFR-DU-33015FiddlingDocRobertsClassicFiddleTunes.htm (1324 words)

	Hillbilly Music: Biographies
		A jack-of-all-trades whose fiddle remained a constant in an ever-shifting life, Carson made a name for himself in Georgia’s fiddling contests, and came to be so well known that politicos of the day, such as the man who "discovered" him, Bob Taylor, would employ Carson to campaign for them.
		Carson fast became a celebrity with the release of “Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane” / “The Old Hen Cackled and the Rooster’s Going to Crow,” in 1923, and became a stalwart of Okeh’s catalogue.
		Along with his daughter, “Moonshine” Kate, Carson continued to record into the 1930s, but realized little profit from his efforts, and eventually took a job as an elevator operator in Georgia's capitol, a position secured for him by Gene Talmadge, for whom Carson had campaigned.
	www.lib.unc.edu /mss/sfc1/hillbilly/HTML/Biographies/bio_Carson.htm (188 words)

	PBS - American Roots Music : The Songs and the Artists - Fiddlin John Carson
		The first major fiddling champ and recording star, Fiddlin' John Carson (1868 - 1949) was first recorded in 1923 and by 1925 was a sensation.
		With Fiddlin' John hawking them from the stage of the next Fiddler's convention, Brockman promptly sold every disc.
		Carson's complete recordings are available on a series of seven CDs from Document Records.
	aolsvc.pbs.aol.com /americanrootsmusic/pbs_arm_saa_fiddlinjohncarson.html (131 words)

	Fiddling John Carson
		He was born on a farm north of Smyrna (Cobb County), Georgia.
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	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Fiddling_John_Carson (90 words)

	Country music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Other important early recording artists were Riley Puckett, Don Richardson, Fiddling John Carson, Ernest Stoneman, Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers, and The Skillet Lickers.
		Even today the variety of country music is not usually well reflected in radio airplay and the popular perception of country music is still influenced by the maudlin ballads and whining steel guitars that many people still associate with the genre.
		California produced the Bakersfield sound, promoted by Buck Owens and Merle Haggard and based on the work of the legendary Maddox Brothers and Rose, whose wild eclectic mix of old time country, hillbilly swing and gospel in the 1940s and 1950s was a feature of honky-tonks and dance halls in the state.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Country_music (2239 words)

	Sing Out! The Folk Song Magazine: Fiddling Way Out Yonder: the Life and Music of Melvin Wine. - book review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		By the time the state joined the Union in 1863, fiddle competitions and fiddle-led dances were common to rural Appalachian community life.
		Melvin's father, Bob, played fiddle for community dances and prohibited his children from touching the instrument, a delicate and valuable possession to a poor Appalachian farmer.
		In addition to his father, Melvin learned a number of fiddle tunes from watching a local Civil War veteran named Benny Harrow, and from local fiddle champs Jack McElwain and "Smithy Wine," a distant relative.
	www.zinkle.com /p/articles/mi_m1197/is_3_46/ai_92083702 (434 words)

	Bluegrass Messengers
		Fiddling with Frazier, Plateau NR-3508, LP (197?), cut#B.02 (Kackling Hen); Osborn, Roy.
		That a fiddler's rendition "Old Hen Cackles" was often a benchmark of his skill is illustrated by John Carson's recorded exchange (on Okeh 45448) with a fiddler named 'Bully' Brewer."(Kuntz, Fiddler's Companion, http://www.ceolas.org/tunes/fc).
		John: I don't give a durn, I'm the best fiddler that ever jerked the hairs of a horse's tail across the belly of a cat.
	www.bluegrassmessengers.com /master/cacklinhen1.html (1034 words)

	Honky Tonks, Hymns, & the Blues
		The earliest fiddle styles may have been primarily British, but Malone argues that British folk tunes and folk culture didn't survive intact for long in the southern wilderness.
		And while many people may think of country fiddle as the domain of "white" people, another current runs deep and wide through nearly all southern fiddling, and it springs from the vibrant musical heritage of African slaves and their descendants.
		One of the most famous fiddle bands of the 1920s was Gid Tanner and the Skillet Lickers (a studio group put together by Columbia AandR man Frank Walker) who seldom played on the radio, instead relying almost exclusively on record sales and personal appearances.
	www.honkytonks.org /showpages/bluegrassfiddling.htm (2242 words)

	fiddling john carson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Then they called up Jim fiddling john carson come along by where fiddling john carson Silas speak up so sharp and fractious before.
		"I seen him looking a little excited when he come out only at fiddling john carson -- and then not till it was pretty close to a ghost, and it seemed like being that close to a second-hand slop- shop and see where he's hid.
		I know a web-site where there is a fiddling john carson.
	hometown.aol.com /SamReta8007/fiddling-john-carson.html (335 words)

	Bluegrass Messengers
		Folksong revival: as Kassie Jones (John Fahey (Varrick 019a)); as Jay Gould’s Daughter (Ed Badeaux (FW 32319c); John Greenway (RVR 12619a); Pete Seeger (FW 2319c, COL 64772c)); as the standard version of Casey Jones (Spider John Koerner (RDH 84c); Ed McCurdy (RVR 12-807a); The New Christy Minstrels (COL 2187a)).
		John Luther Jones was brought up in Cayce, Kentucky (hence his nickname)Joe Hill (pseud.
		John Luther (Casey) Jones was born in Cayce, Kentucky in 1863.
	www.bluegrassmessengers.com /master/caseyjones7.html (2273 words)

	Oldtime Music
		Thus many fiddle tunes and ballads have their origin in America whenever they are often based on tunes of the European tradition.
		In 1922 and 1923 the first records were produced with artists as Eck Robertson and Fiddling John Carson (citation: I'll have to quit making moonshine and start making records).
		IN addition to the traditional fiddle and banjo mandolins and guitars were subsequently added.
	www.oldtimemusic.de /info.htm (587 words)

	FIDDLIN’ JOHN CARSON, March 23, 1868-December 11, 1949 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Atlanta phonograph and record dealer Polk Brockman prevailed upon the General Phonograph Corporation to record Carson for its flagship label during one of its southern field trips.
		Carson worked as an elevator operator in his later years.
		There has been a revival of interest in Carson’s work in recent decades, stimulated by Gene Wiggins’ book, Fiddlin’ Georgia Crazy: Fiddlin’ John Carson, His Real World and the World of His Songs (University of Illinois Press, 1987) and Document Records’ release of his complete recordings in the late 1990s.
	www.sam.edu /~lis_fwh/book/roots_of_rock/support/Country/Carson2.htm (392 words)

	Bluegrass Messengers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		RECORDING INFO: Fiddlin' John Carson And His Virginia Reelers; Okeh 45273; Issued November 1928; County 514 cut# 10, Fiddlin' John Carson and the Virginia Reelers- "Hell Broke Loose in Georgia" (originally recorded 1927).
		Victor Vi45273 (78 RPM), Fiddling John Carson and the Virginia Reelers (1927).
		A bluegrass song derivative of John Carson's is fiddler Tex Logan's "Christmas Time's a-Comin'", although the chorus seems based on the 'B' part of "Mississippi Sawyer." (Kuntz, Fiddler's Companion, http://www.ceolas.org/tunes/fc).
	www.bluegrassmessengers.com /master/christmastimewill.html (214 words)

	Fiddler Magazine - Spring 2001
		She also led John and Alan Lomax to places to record when they first came to record in the 1930s.
		At the age of seven, he was given a Sears and Roebuck $1.98 tin fiddle and shortly afterwards got his first taste of performing, working for his father who was a farmer.
		Fiddles for Tierra Caliente is also soliciting donations of cash in order to give scholarships to deserving young players.
	fiddle.com /issues/spr01.html (7939 words)

	Folk File: C
		Carson, Fiddling John (1868-1949) an Atlanta old-timey fiddler who recorded for RCA and Okeh.
		Generally done to fiddle tunes, and usually in groups of three or four or more, the steps are energetic and rhythmic, although less flamboyant than tap.
		The tunes published by John Playford in the 1650 "Playford Dancing Master" are still performed today, although many of them are not the informal type of country dance, but like contra-dance, probably derive from the royal courts.
	www.folklib.net /folkfile/c.shtml (11328 words)

	home towne grooves
		Danielle's edgy, driving guitar locomotion engages Cregan's tantalizing nontraditional fiddle, as the two women weave their "incredibly sweet and fine harmonies" (WMPG, Portland) into an alternative folk-rock style, which is attracting a passionate fan base of diverse ages and backgrounds.
		John Berry has one of the most powerful and distinctive voices in country music.
		John gravitated to both soul and country music and began recording his own albums at home in 1979.
	www.powermixradio.com /hometowne.html (1896 words)

	TheHill.com - Julia Carson lingers in ânougatocityâ
		Carson’s spokesman, Chad Chitwood, did not respond to requests for information about the congresswoman’s apparent affection for Snickers.
		Carson had heart-bypass surgery in 1996, but both she and her aides have said she is healthy.
		Tom Kahn, staff director and counsel for the House Budget Committee, and wife, Susy, are delighted by the recent birth of their first child, a son, Benjamin Eugene Kahn, born on Nov. 21.
	thehill.com /in-the-know/julia-carson-lingers-in-nougatocity-2006-12-13.html (1316 words)

	The Muse of Joy and Sorrow: why we play the fiddle - ed. Donna Hébert
		Carson, in a sense, plays both parts in this tale, which was later reworked into "The Devil Went Down To Georgia".
		Gene Wiggins, in "Fiddlin' Georgia Crazy: Fiddlin' John Carson, His Real World, and the World of His Songs" (University of Illinois Press, 1989), quotes two accounts of a contest between Bob Taylor and a young John Carson, while Taylor was Governor of Tennessee (1887-91, or later again in 1897-99).
		Fiddlin' John Carson, born in 1876, suddenly in 1922 had the only regularly-scheduled 10pm radio program in the country (truly "the Johnny Carson of his era").
	www.dhebert.com /publications/themuse/benet2.html (1243 words)

	FiddleFork Online
		Created and maintained by fiddle players from around the world, FiddleFork's mission is to provide a one stop platform for exchanging fiddle tunes, fiddle information and anything fiddle related.
		Rouse, who endured tragedy, alcoholism and mental illness, spent his final years fiddling for tips in isolated taverns at the edge of the Everglades.
		Wise, who achieved fame as the seminal fiddler of the bluegrass era and the acclaimed author of the song, also struggled to overcome personal demons and heal the scars of childhood abuse and abandonment.
	fiddlefork.com (1073 words)

	FIDDLE-L Archives -- December 2000, week 5 (#20)
		In fact, the most significant thing we might be able to say about regional music styles is that they started to homogenize as people were exposed more and more easily to recorded music.
		With some exceptions like Fiddling John Carson, the recorded fiddlers tended toward the high end of what Allan calls a competency level, so their music tended to filter down through the ranks of local players with the more skilled able to pick it up faster.
		But in my mind, Arthur Smith is a significant person simply because he travelled a lot working for the railroad and made personal appearances that reinforced the effects of his recordings.
	listserv.brown.edu /archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0012e&L=fiddle-l&F=&S=&P=2024 (294 words)

	Sheet Music Plus - Old-Time Fiddling Across America
		A unique collection of 66 fiddle tunes illustrating the major regional styles found across America and Canada.
		The authors have collaborated brilliantly on this labor of love to produce a definitive volume of tunes transcribed from recordings by many of the best fiddlers in North America.
		Natalie MacMaster's Cape Breton Island Fiddle By J. Scott Skinner...
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