A guide to the Crooked Road : Virginia's heritage music trail /
[by Joe Wilson].
- Winston-Salem, N.C. : John F. Blair, 2006.
- xiii, 225 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm. + 2 sound discs (4 3/4 in.)
With two accompanying CDs of music from southwestern Virginia, featuring old-time, bluegrass, Piedmont blues, Anglo-American ballads and Appalachian gospel music (SR07565, filed at 2173; and SR07566, filed at 2174).
Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-218) and index.
Tips for traveling the Crooked Road and using this book -- Introduction -- Why so much music here? -- Sources of the music : the Blue Ridge as the first American blender -- Europe meets Africa in the tidewater -- The banjo -- The African banjo -- The wooden banjo -- Why blacks gave up the banjo -- The fiddle -- Violinist or fiddler? -- Fiddling style along the Crooked Road -- Fiddling contests -- The guitar -- The hillbilly reinvention of the guitar -- Luthiers and violin makers -- Technology, older music, and the radio revolution -- New folks in the audience -- Bluegrass and old-time music defined -- Franklin County and Rocky Mount -- Patrick County and Stuart -- Floyd County and Floyd -- Carroll County and Hillsville -- Grayson County and Galax -- Washington County, Abingdon, Damascus, and Bristol -- Scott County and Gate City -- Lee County and Jonesville -- Wise County, Coeburn, Norton, and Big Stone Gap -- Dickenson County and Clintwood -- Music samples from the Crooked Road.
A guide to a musical trail in southwestern Virginia, detailing, music venues, places to eat and stay, and places of interest.