ot...RIP reynolds price

On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 09:13:03 -0500, jeff w

"Reynolds Price, whose novels and stories about ordinary people in rural
North Carolina struggling to find their place in the world established
him as one of the most important voices in modern Southern fiction, died
on Thursday in Durham, N.C.

..."He is the best young writer this country has ever produced,” the
novelist Allan Gurganus said in an interview for [the NYT obituary]. “He
started out with a voice, a lyric gift and a sense of humor, and an
insight about how people lived and what they’ll do to get along.”

...At Duke University, where he taught writing and the poetry of Milton
for more than half a century, he encouraged students like Anne Tyler and
Josephine Humphreys. Simply by staying in the South and writing about
it, he inspired a generation of younger Southern novelists.

“He made this small corner of North Carolina the sovereign territory of
his own imagination and showed those of us who went away that the water
back home was fine,” Mr. Gurganus said. “We could come back; there was
plenty of room for all of us.”

Edward Reynolds Price was born on Feb. 1, 1933, in Macon, N.C., a town
about 65 miles northeast of Raleigh that he once described as “227
cotton and tobacco farmers nailed to the flat red land at the pit of the
Great Depression.”

...After graduating summa cum laude from Duke in 1955, he won a Rhodes
scholarship to study at Oxford, where he wrote a thesis on Milton, and
developed career-enhancing friendships with the poets Stephen Spender
and W. H. Auden and the critic and biographer Lord David Cecil.

...He was turned down for military service after he stated, without
hesitation, that he was homosexual."

NYT obit, 1/21/11

Reynolds Price
Unfortunately,

We are not acqiauinted w this auther and same w my wife who is an
avid and prolific reader
I looked hiom up on Amazon
Is there anything that you woukd suggest that we start with?

Thanks
Fred

he has a variety of offerings... i've read only a few of his books.
kate vaiden, blue calhoun, roxanna slade, and a whole new life. liked
all of them. started noble norfleet, but never finished. my wife liked
it though. a whole new life is about his experience in dealing with
spinal cancer and his paraplegia.
Thanks
I will e-mail this to my wife
I will trade you a couple of music recommendations
NC is oa major centers of county and old time fiddle and Appalachian
banjo and general music - jug band also
If you like old time country music?

Its also a center for a type and a whole different venue of blues
picking- Piedmont Bls


Fred



one of my friends here is an accomplished bluegrass/country
musician...banjo and fiddle. i have a few cds, but it's not my favorite
music and i know little about it or the musicians.

jeff
Just a little funny
I take bi weekly lessons w Kenny Jackson, a master fiddler, on Skype
He is out of Carrboro NC and we copy some real old NC musicians
Fred

ask him if he knows lane hollis of greenville. lane, a fishing friend,
has been fiddling since he was in elementary school, and used to build
instruments. he is a serious student of bluegrass. he also rebuilt an
old violin i inherited from my grandfather...though i can't play it,
lane says it has a sweet sound. i appreciate some of the music, and
there are lots of bluegrass festivals around nc. like many things i am
just now learning to appreciate and enjoy, i was either too stupid, too
lazy, or too blind to recognize the value in many of the
arts...including those that were within daily and easy reach.

jeff

"Reynolds Price, whose novels and stories about ordinary people in rural
North Carolina struggling to find their place in the world established
him as one of the most important voices in modern Southern fiction, died
on Thursday in Durham, N.C.

..."He is the best young writer this country has ever produced,” the
novelist Allan Gurganus said in an interview for [the NYT obituary]. “He
started out with a voice, a lyric gift and a sense of humor, and an
insight about how people lived and what they’ll do to get along.”

...At Duke University, where he taught writing and the poetry of Milton
for more than half a century, he encouraged students like Anne Tyler and
Josephine Humphreys. Simply by staying in the South and writing about
it, he inspired a generation of younger Southern novelists.

“He made this small corner of North Carolina the sovereign territory of
his own imagination and showed those of us who went away that the water
back home was fine,” Mr. Gurganus said. “We could come back; there was
plenty of room for all of us.”

Edward Reynolds Price was born on Feb. 1, 1933, in Macon, N.C., a town
about 65 miles northeast of Raleigh that he once described as “227
cotton and tobacco farmers nailed to the flat red land at the pit of the
Great Depression.”

...After graduating summa cum laude from Duke in 1955, he won a Rhodes
scholarship to study at Oxford, where he wrote a thesis on Milton, and
developed career-enhancing friendships with the poets Stephen Spender
and W. H. Auden and the critic and biographer Lord David Cecil.

...He was turned down for military service after he stated, without
hesitation, that he was homosexual."

NYT obit, 1/21/11

Reynolds Price
Unfortunately,

We are not acqiauinted w this auther and same w my wife who is an
avid and prolific reader
I looked hiom up on Amazon
Is there anything that you woukd suggest that we start with?

Thanks
Fred

he has a variety of offerings... i've read only a few of his books.
kate vaiden, blue calhoun, roxanna slade, and a whole new life. liked
all of them. started noble norfleet, but never finished. my wife liked
it though. a whole new life is about his experience in dealing with
spinal cancer and his paraplegia.
Thanks
I will e-mail this to my wife
I will trade you a couple of music recommendations
NC is oa major centers of county and old time fiddle and Appalachian
banjo and general music - jug band also
If you like old time country music?

Its also a center for a type and a whole different venue of blues
picking- Piedmont Bls


Fred



one of my friends here is an accomplished bluegrass/country
musician...banjo and fiddle. i have a few cds, but it's not my favorite
music and i know little about it or the musicians.

jeff
Just a little funny
I take bi weekly lessons w Kenny Jackson, a master fiddler, on Skype
He is out of Carrboro NC and we copy some real old NC musicians
Fred

ask him if he knows lane hollis of greenville. lane, a fishing friend,
has been fiddling since he was in elementary school, and used to build
instruments. he is a serious student of bluegrass. he also rebuilt an
old violin i inherited from my grandfather...though i can't play it,
lane says it has a sweet sound. i appreciate some of the music, and
there are lots of bluegrass festivals around nc. like many things i am
just now learning to appreciate and enjoy, i was either too stupid, too
lazy, or too blind to recognize the value in many of the
arts...including those that were within daily and easy reach.

jeff

NC has a phenominally rich collection of old time country fiddlers and
musicians
It is a treasure trove for the above
There are quite a few festivals and workshops there.
(I would love to attend another worksho
p)
John Salyer
Tommy Jarrell
Bunt Stephens to name only a few
of the country fiddlers unique to the Carolinas

To me old time country encompasses acoustic
country and bluegrass, acoustic blues pickers , usually pre-war blues,
appalachian, jug band and more
Piedmont blues is an east coast & mainly NC dialect of the country
blues
Quite unique to the area

John Cephas
Sonny Terry
Brownie McGee are only a few

Kenny did not know your friend
Ask Lane if he knows Kenny from the band Big Medicine

If you want I can point you to some festivals or "concerts"

If not , that's OK also

back to fishing
Fred

On 1/22/2011 2:49 PM, flebow wrote:
I take bi weekly lessons w Kenny Jackson, a master fiddler, on Skype
He is out of Carrboro NC and we copy some real old NC musicians
Fred


NC has a phenominally rich collection of old time country fiddlers and
musicians
It is a treasure trove for the above
There are quite a few festivals and workshops there.
(I would love to attend another worksho
p)
John Salyer
Tommy Jarrell
Bunt Stephens to name only a few
of the country fiddlers unique to the Carolinas

To me old time country encompasses acoustic
country and bluegrass, acoustic blues pickers , usually pre-war blues,
appalachian, jug band and more
Piedmont blues is an east coast& mainly NC dialect of the country
blues
Quite unique to the area

John Cephas
Sonny Terry
Brownie McGee are only a few

Kenny did not know your friend
Ask Lane if he knows Kenny from the band Big Medicine

If you want I can point you to some festivals or "concerts"

If not , that's OK also

back to fishing
Fred


i'll ask lane...if my mind can keep hold of it til i see him. if you
like old time country, and a unique carolina trio and sound, check this
out...

http://www.carolinachocolatedrops.com/video

fred, i rarely go to crowded events anymore...but, if there's a chance i
can get close enough to the artist to actually observe their work, i'll
give it a go.

lane attends a number the festivals in nc and virginia...he describes
them as collaborative events and an opportunity to learn from others. i
like seeing artists, especially in smaller venues, enjoying what they
do, lost in the doing of it. seeing/listening to wayno with his
left-handed, upside-down guitar in a living room of a mountain cabin, or
lane and his wife and their daughter on the porch of a motel on
ocracoke, was loads more fun for me than enduring the crowds and
performance of the rolling stones in an outdoor concert at duke u. huge
crowds (like at merle fest) usually cause me to yearn for a quiet
geography or waterway.

thanks...

jeff

On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 20:30:56 -0500, jeff
wrote:

huge
crowds (like at merle fest) usually cause me to yearn for a quiet
geography or waterway.


The above is why we moved to rural MT.

Sure I know the Carolina Chocolate Drops
Most of the artists I have mentioned would not draw crowds

My wife has ordered 2 books of Reynolds Price and they are in her
(our) queue
Fred

"jeff" wrote

i
like seeing artists, especially in smaller venues, enjoying what they do,
lost in the doing of it. seeing/listening to wayno with his left-handed,
upside-down guitar in a living room of a mountain cabin, or lane and his
wife and their daughter on the porch of a motel on ocracoke, was loads
more fun for me than enduring the crowds and performance of the rolling
stones in an outdoor concert at duke u.

now, just a dern minute! i resent the implication that i do not draw
considerable attendance at some of my more widely advertised
performances--for instance, i have played in a field down in rowan county on
a warm spring day virtually covered by various flying and crawling insects,
and the random feral cat or two--not to speak of a couple dozen drunken
rednecks...so, think before you write, bubba!



yfitp
wayno(ok, so i'll admit that hearing myself sing over the cacaphony of their
world class cursing, booing, etc. is more than a little challlenging...)