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'''OLD GRANNY RATTLE-TRAP.''' AKA and see "[[Granny Will Your Dog Bite? (`)]]" Old-Time, Breakdown. USA; Tennessee, Arkansas. The title appears in a list of traditional Ozarks Mountian fiddle tunes compiled by musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph, published in 1954. Z"Old Granny Rattle-Trap" was recorded by Vocalion in 1924 by Ambrose Gaines "Uncle Am" Stuart [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Am_Stuart] (1853–1926, Morristown, Tenn.). | '''OLD GRANNY RATTLE-TRAP.''' AKA and see "[[Granny Will Your Dog Bite? (`)]]" Old-Time, Breakdown. USA; Tennessee, Arkansas. The title appears in a list of traditional Ozarks Mountian fiddle tunes compiled by musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph, published in 1954. Z"Old Granny Rattle-Trap" was recorded by Vocalion in 1924 by Ambrose Gaines "Uncle Am" Stuart [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Am_Stuart] (1853–1926, Morristown, Tenn.). | ||
[[File:uncleam.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Uncle Am Stuart, helping to sell war bonds during World War I.]] Stuart was aged 73 at the time he recorded (traveling to New York to do so), and was the district manager for a local burglarproof lock company. He had learned his music in the Civil War era and was well-known as a dance fiddler who occasionally played with Charlie Bowman and the Hill Billies. His job apparently left him well off; enough so, remarked Hill Billies member Tony Alderman, that he would occasionally "come out on stage at the end of a show and ask the audience if they knew of someone who loved their kind of music but was too sick or poor to attend the show. If anyone identified such a person, Uncle Am would hand over all the money he earned that night to give to that person..." [Bob L. Cox, '''Fiddlin' Charlie Bowman: An East Tennessee Old-time Music Pioneer''', 2007). Uncle Am's brother was a renowned Nashville evangelist minister, Rev. George R. Stuart. | [[File:uncleam.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Uncle Am Stuart, helping to sell war bonds during World War I.]] Stuart was aged 73 at the time he recorded (traveling to New York to do so), and was the district manager for a local burglarproof lock company. He had learned his music in the Civil War era and was well-known as a dance fiddler who occasionally played with Charlie Bowman and the Hill Billies. His job apparently left him well off; enough so, remarked Hill Billies member Tony Alderman, that he would occasionally "come out on stage at the end of a show and ask the audience if they knew of someone who loved their kind of music but was too sick or poor to attend the show. If anyone identified such a person, Uncle Am would hand over all the money he earned that night to give to that person..." [Bob L. Cox, '''Fiddlin' Charlie Bowman: An East Tennessee Old-time Music Pioneer''', 2007). Uncle Am's brother was a renowned Nashville evangelist minister, Rev. George R. Stuart. | ||
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OLD GRANNY RATTLE-TRAP. AKA and see "Granny Will Your Dog Bite? (`)" Old-Time, Breakdown. USA; Tennessee, Arkansas. The title appears in a list of traditional Ozarks Mountian fiddle tunes compiled by musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph, published in 1954. Z"Old Granny Rattle-Trap" was recorded by Vocalion in 1924 by Ambrose Gaines "Uncle Am" Stuart [1] (1853–1926, Morristown, Tenn.).
Stuart was aged 73 at the time he recorded (traveling to New York to do so), and was the district manager for a local burglarproof lock company. He had learned his music in the Civil War era and was well-known as a dance fiddler who occasionally played with Charlie Bowman and the Hill Billies. His job apparently left him well off; enough so, remarked Hill Billies member Tony Alderman, that he would occasionally "come out on stage at the end of a show and ask the audience if they knew of someone who loved their kind of music but was too sick or poor to attend the show. If anyone identified such a person, Uncle Am would hand over all the money he earned that night to give to that person..." [Bob L. Cox, Fiddlin' Charlie Bowman: An East Tennessee Old-time Music Pioneer, 2007). Uncle Am's brother was a renowned Nashville evangelist minister, Rev. George R. Stuart.
"Old Granny Rattle-Trap" was also recorded for the Library of Congress in 1949 from the playing of Bascon Lamar Lunsford.
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Printed sources:
Recorded sources: Vocalion 5048 (78 RPM), Uncle Am Stuart (1924).
See also listing at:
Uncle Am Stuart - Old Granny Rattle Trap.mp3