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This is a riveting tale of the Grand Old Man of Opry fiddlers (36 years with Roy Acuff and the Smoky Mountain Boys, a year with Bill Monroe, and the Bluegrass boys, and a year with Cowboy Copas) Howdy Forrester, his life his work, tune transcriptions, lead sheets, photographs and discography. This book appeals to everyone: fiddlers who want to emulate his style and learn his tunes, Opry aficionados, country music fans, musicians of all stripes, lovers of history and people who just appreciate a great read and a Horatio Alger success story. It includes never-before published original tune transcriptions, a complete discography, meticulous footnotes documenting careful research, and a thorough index. It is also about the major role he played as the bridge fiddler between the scratchy old time music and the modern elegant fiddling of old time music today, which he helped invent.
- Sales Rank: #3431494 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Viewpoint Press
- Published on: 2008-04-08
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- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .64" h x 6.11" w x 8.90" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 241 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
About the Author
Author Gayel Pitchford is a contest award-winning old-time fiddler and concertmaster of the Tehachapi Community Orchestra. She is Fiddlin'Red Hattie in the old-time fiddle band Fiddlin' Red Hattie and the Friends of Hattie Band, which plays for parties, shows, and dances in southern California. Pitchford has a Bachelor of Arts degree in American Studies from California State University, Los Angeles, and a Master of Arts degree from the University of Redlands. After a long career in the corporate world(with music always as her avocation), she took a vry early retirement and moved to Tehachapi California, where music is now her vocation. She teaches all her violin, viola, cello, and bass students to fiddle. She is State Director for District 3 of the California State Old Time Fiddlers Association, a member of the American String Teachers Association (ASTA), and first violin in the string quartet "Four With a Score."
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Informative and Inspiring
By M. Carlson
Howard "Howdy" Forrester's best-known role was that of fiddler for Roy Acuff's band, the Smoky Mountain Boys, a position which he held for over 35 years, but to state even this accomplishment as the be-all, end-all of his achievements would be misleading, to say the least. He was also a composer of such striking originality that his tunes ("Wild Fiddler's Rag" being a prime example) are embraced by a generation that, often as not, does not even know his name. Above all, his influence as a steady, innovative performer on the Grand Old Opry helped to popularize a style of music that might otherwise have faded. Author Gayel Pitchford does not hesitate to attribute the continued popularity of (contest-style) old time fiddling in a large part to the influence of Howard Forrester. Unfortunately, while Forrester's music and influence have survived, they have survived largely as achievements by an unknown hand; his decades of appearances on the Grand Old Opry were made as a backing musician, part of a band instead of a solo name.
Pitchford's book puts a face and a name, a whole life behind that "unknown hand". In doing so, it opens yet another role for Forrester--that of an inspiration. One fact that shines throughout the book is that Forrester never had formal music lessons. He began playing the fiddle about the age of nine in his home in Tennessee, coached by his mother who was a guitar player. He learned tunes by mimicking the notes that she would sing for him. Forrester thus developed a good ear which would later enable him to integrate aspects of artists he admired--Fritz Kreisler not the least among them. Such a knack for picking up styles and techniques would be enviable in itself, but coupled to it, Forrester had a great will to learn and the humility required to embrace new methods. While Pitchford's biography is invaluable in the amount of information it presents on a strangely neglected artist, I would say its biggest impact comes in its demonstration of what a determined human being can do. Forrester did not become a good fiddler. He became a great one--and even then he was eager to improve.
While the book might be read profitably by anyone with an interest in fiddling, the Grand Old Opry or the realities of a working musician's life, there are details which make it especially delightful for those who have some experience on the fiddle (or violin, depending on your terminology). Pitchford has obviously spent hours pouring over Forrester's recordings and is well equipped, not only to tell the world that Forrester is great, but why he is great. She generates a good deal of infectious glee over Forrester's double stops (two strings sounded simultaneously; difficult to execute in tune on a fretless instrument) and calls attention to interesting modulations and key choices in many of his tunes. (It is a mark of Forrester's expertise that he often--successfully--played tunes in "flat" keys, which make strong demands on a fiddler.) As icing on the musician's cake, Pitchford has included written music for many of Forrester's tunes, some in the form of original lead sheets and others transcriptions from Forrester's recordings.
Strange to relate, the man who had such an impact on the state of current contest fiddling hardly ever competed, preferring the less aggressive atmosphere of festivals and concerts. As Pitchford points out several times, Howard Forrester never felt the need to prove himself over another player; he preferred to present his music for people to like or dislike as they chose. His legacy proves that they liked it.
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