Jim Scancarelli - Fiddler, Banjo Player and Gasoline Alley Cartoonist

North Carolina fiddler and banjo player Jim Scancarelli's extensive career as a string band musician began in the early 1960s. A founding member of the Kilocycle Kowboys, one of Charlotte's longest-lived bluegrass bands, he played banjo with the Mole Hill Highlanders, and in the 1980s formed Sanitary Cafe with fiddler Tommy Malboeuf. Through the 1970s, his annual recordings at the Union Grove Fiddlers Convention captured superlative music and performer interviews. Scancarelli also had a successful career as a freelance magazine artist and collaborated on the syndicated comic strips "Mutt and Jeff" and "Gasoline Alley," eventually taking over authorship of the latter in 1986. This biography traces his creative trajectory in music, art, radio and television, and the cartooning industry.

List of contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

One.¿Early Life

Two.¿Radio and TV Life

Three.¿Learning Music

Four.¿Making Music

Five.¿A Mindset to Cartoon

Six.¿Music, and the Banjo, in Gasoline Alley

Conclusion: The Sweep of His Life Story

Appendix 1:¿Discography and Videography: Jim Scancarelli

Appendix 2:¿Gasoline Alley Strips Referenced in Chapter Six

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: 24.01.2022
• EAN: 9781476686004
• ISBN: 978-1-4766-8600-4
• No. of pages: 236
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 254 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 426 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Biography: general, ART / Techniques / Cartooning, Country and Western, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Country & Bluegrass, Country & Western music, Folk & traditional music, Bluegrass, Comic book & cartoon art, Comic book and cartoon artwork, Traditional and folk music