| Summary: | "For years fiddlers and folklorists have prized the old-time fiddle tunes from Kentucky. Many of the most outstanding country music artists hail from the state, including Ricky Skaggs and Bill Monroe, widely regarded as the founder of bluegrass music. Even Aaron Copland lifted, note for note, a Kentucky old-time fiddler's performance of "Bonaparte's Retreat" for the "Hoedown" section of his ballet Rodeo." "That tune and nearly 200 others are transcribed here, most for the first time, from Kentucky fiddlers' home, field-collected, and commercial recordings. These Kentucky source musicians, many of whom were born before 1900, were skilled practitioners of playing styles and tune repertoires that are now extremely rare. Living in a time of transition between the old-time music of the nineteenth century and the modern country music of the twentieth, these fiddlers preserved the older music even as they flirted with the newer tunes and styles."--Jacket.
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