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Banjo on the Mountain: Wade Mainer's First Hundred Years (American Made Music Series)
Banjo on the Mountain Wade Mainer's First Hundred Years - American Made Music Series
Author: Dick Spottswood
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...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781604734980
ISBN-10: 1604734981
Publication Date: 8/1/2010
Pages: 128
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Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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