Music from the True Vine
Mike Seeger's Life and Musical Journey
By Bill C. Malone
256 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 25 halftones, notes, bibl., index
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-2198-2
Published: December 2014 -
E-book EPUB ISBN: 978-0-8078-6940-6
Published: October 2011 -
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Published: October 2011
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Malone argues that Seeger, while not as well known as his brother, may be more important to the history of American music through his work in identifying and giving voice to the people from whom the folk revival borrowed its songs. Seeger recorded and produced over forty albums, including the work of artists such as Libba Cotten, Tommy Jarrell, Dock Boggs, and Maybelle Carter. In 1958, with an ambition to recreate the southern string bands of the twenties, he formed the New Lost City Ramblers, helping to inspire the urban folk revival of the sixties. Music from the True Vine presents Seeger as a gatekeeper of American roots music and culture, showing why generations of musicians and fans of traditional music regard him as a mentor and an inspiration.
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Bill Malone is professor of history emeritus at Tulane University.
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"Resistant to making his own life a central part of his legacy, [Mike Seeger] remained an enigma to many who'd long relished and built on his music. . . . The more obscure parts of the story are clarified in Bill C. Malone's biography."--Wall Street Journal
"An illuminating biography. . . . Paints Seeger's contribution to the folk music revival as one of genuine respect for and commemoration of the music he was preserving and lets the importance of Seeger's work speak for itself."--Library Journal
"In Bill C. Malone, Seeger has a biographer worthy of his importance."--Foreword Reviews
"An excellent and affectionate biography."--Times Literary Supplement
"Malone, long the nation's most authoritative historian of country music, has written an impressively researched, psychologically insightful, and eminently readable biography of an individual whose lifework changed our understanding both of folk music and the southern region that spawned it."--Journal of Southern History
“An important contribution to folklore scholarship. . . . Rich in detail and could be a blueprint for telling the story of an individual’s entrance into a musical career.”--Journal of American Folklore
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