Wayne Howard - Old-Time Music, the Hammons Family and Mountain Lore

From his birth in Owensboro, Kentucky, in 1947, to his 2020 album featuring the music of Lee Hammons, Wayne Howard has lived an exceptionally creative life. He seemed to be eternally present at fiddle festivals, involved in the creative forces working to preserve Southern Mountain music. In 1969, he relocated to West Virginia and was introduced to the Hammons family by Dwight Diller. Howard then recorded Lee, Sherman, Burl, and Maggie Hammons playing music and telling stories. Howard then became a professional computer programmer, a vintage book collector, and a woodworker, before turning to writing about the Hammons family, and producing CDs of their stories and music. This biography follows the threads of music and folklore through Howard's life, celebrating his profound knowledge that does much to sustain the interest of those who seek out Appalachian tunes, songs, and stories.

List of contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

One.¿Family History, Early Life, Education, Aspirations

Two.¿Life in West Virginia

Three.¿Back to Kentucky, Pursuing Folklore

Four.¿Wayne's Creative Trajectory

Appendix 1. Burl Hammons' Lost, and Found, Fiddle

Appendix 2. Two Dulcimers Made by Lee Hammons

List of Interviewees

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Clawhammer banjo player Lewis M. Stern has written for The Banjoists Broadsheet, The Old Time Herald and Banjo Newsletter. He lives in Durham, North Carolina.

Product details

• Authors: Lewis M. Stern, Stern Lewis M.
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.05.2021
• EAN: 9781476684260
• ISBN: 978-1-4766-8426-0
• No. of pages: 195
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 263 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Series: Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Folk & Traditional, Biography: arts & entertainment, Folk & traditional music, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Music, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Composers and songwriters, Biography: arts and entertainment, Folk, Folkloric styles, Traditional and folk music, Life; Festivals; Southern Music; woodworker