Foggy Mountain Troubadour : The Life and Music of Curly Seckler.
Parsons, Penny.Univ. Illinois Press ©2016
Due to be published in May 2016. With his trademark mandolin style and unequaled tenor harmonies, Curly Seckler has carved out a seventy-seven-year career in bluegrass and country music. His foundational work in Flatt and Scruggs's Foggy Mountain Boys secured him a place in bluegrass history, while his role in The Nashville Grass made him an essential part of the music's triumphant 1970s revival. Written in close collaboration with Mr. Seckler and those who know him, Foggy Mountain Troubadour is the first full-length biography of an American original. Penny Parsons follows a journey from North Carolina schoolhouses to the Grand Ole Opry stage and the Bluegrass Hall of Fame, from boarding houses to radio studios and traveling five to a car on two-lane roads to make the next show. Throughout, she captures the warm humor, hard choices, and vivid details of a brilliant artist's life as he crisscrosses a nation and a century making music.
272 p.; 22 cm.
Paper
Language: English
ISBN: 0252081595
ISBN13: 9780252081590
UPC: 9780252081590
Foggy Mountain Troubadour : The Life and Music of Curly Seckler.
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