Blue Ridge Music Trails of North Carolina

A Guide to Music Sites, Artists, and Traditions of the Mountains and Foothills

Fred C. Fussell, Steve Kruger

• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• Year: 2018
• ISBN:
  9781469641478
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Personal Development
• Subtopic: Travel

The Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina are the heart of a region where traditional music and dance are performed and celebrated as nowhere else in America. This guide puts readers on the trail to discover many sites where the unique musical legacy thrives, covering bluegrass and stringband music, clogging, and other traditional forms of music and dance. The book includes stories of the legendary music of the Blue Ridge Mountains, maps, and contact information for the featured sites, as well as color illustrations and profiles of prominent musicians and music traditions. Chapters are organized county by county, and sidebars include interviews with and profiles of performers, information about various performance styles, and a brief history of Blue Ridge music. The updated second edition adds three new music venues, along with updated information on the almost sixty music sites in Western North Carolina profiled in the previous edition. Also included are new full-color photos, two new artist profiles, and a CD of twenty-six classic songs from the mountains and the foothills.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• A Place in the Circle
• Contents
• Preface: Entering the Circle
• How to Use the Guidebook
• Traditional Music in Western North Carolina
• Region 1: Sprout Wings and Fly
• Region 2: Feed Me on Cornbread and Beans
• Region 3: It Strikes with Terror in My Heart
• Region 4: Asheville Junction
• Region 5: The Flint Hill Special
• Region 6: Walking the King’s Highway
• A Note about the Blue Ridge Music Trails Project
• A Note about the Traditional Artist Directory
• Acknowledgments
• Index
• CD Notes