No Title 2669

Supplement to “John Harrod: Fiddling Through Life”

After collecting music for decades via his tape recorder, John Harrod is now working on a collection of home recordings, meaning recordings that the musicians made of themselves, each other, or family members. Many of these recordings are done in old formats such as aluminum or acetate disks, or early-reel-to-reel tapes, and date from around 1948 to 1964. They include yet an earlier generation of musicians and in some cases earlier recordings of some of the same musicians Harrod recorded in the 1970s and ’80s.

Currently gathering old photos and cleaning up the sound a bit, Harrod says this project will involve three CDs that will be issued by the Kentucky Center for Traditional Music at Morehead. The first will be released this year.

His first collection of the home recordings will be available in late summer or fall from the Kentucky Center for Traditional Music at Morehead State University at www.kctm.info or call (606) 783-9001 and ask for KCTM.

There are also several links for old-time music on Kentucky Educational Television’s (KET) Mountain Muse Web page at www.ket.org/muse/mountainmusic/resources.htm.

To read the August 2011 feature that goes along with this supplement, go to Fiddling Through Life.