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Banjo on the mountain : Wade Mainer's first hundred years / Dick Spottswood, with an essay by Stephen Wade.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spottswood, Richard K. (Richard Keith)
- Series:
- American made music series.
- American made music series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Country musicians--United States--Biography.
- Country musicians.
- Banjoists--United States--Biography.
- Banjoists.
- Mainer, Wade, 1907-2011.
- Mainer, Wade.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (145 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Wade Mainer (b. 1907) is believed to be the longest-lived country entertainer ever. His banjo lessons began in childhood and he played informally into his adult years, when he joined his brother, fiddler J. E. Mainer (1898-1971), in Mainer's Mountaineers. Music became their ticket out of the cotton mills in 1934. At the time, country styles were swiftly evolving from community-based performance into mass-market broadcast via radio, records, and the silver screen. Mainer's Mountaineers attracted radio sponsors and touring opportunities, allowing the brothers to become full-time musicians. Event
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface; The Wade Mainer Story; Wade Mainer's Banjo Playing; Photos, Letters, and Memories; Broadcast Chronology; Discography; Index
- Notes:
- Includes discography.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-65440-3
- 9786612654404
- 1-60473-499-X
- OCLC:
- 651602039
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