Autorentext

Joyce H. Cauthen served as director of the Alabama Folklife Association from 2000 to 2010. An expert on folk music traditions in Alabama, she is the author of With Fiddle and Well-Rosined Bow: A History of Old-Time Fiddling In Alabama, Out of Whole Cloth: The Life of Bettye Kimbrell, and Benjamin Lloyd's Hymn Book.

Robin Sterling has produced approximately ninety books of historical data collected from courthouse documents, cemetery surveys, marriage registers, Confederate pension applications, census records, newspapers, and other primary sources.

Klappentext

The Ballad of Fiddling Tom Freeman is a vivid, firsthand account of life in Bug Tussle, Alabama, drawn from the eccentric manuscript of a fiddler and bootlegger. Blending folklore, crime, and community history, it offers a rare bottom-up view of Southern life from 1850 to 1950.