The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #26278   Message #315599
Posted By: Gern
10-Oct-00 - 01:32 PM
Thread Name: Rick's hard'n easy Bluegrass Quiz.
Subject: RE: Rick's hard'n easy Bluegrass Quiz.
#1 was Jana Jae, one of many wives of Buck Owens, but hardly a bluegrass fiddler. How unusual was a female fiddler in such recordings? Hattie Frost Stoneman played fiddle for husband Pop Stoneman and the Dixie Mountaineers in the 1920s, probably the first woman recorded in country music. If this sounds obscure, her fiddle was heard in country's first million seller, "The titanic." #3 might just be Dr. Lew Childre. #9 could be the Reno Brothers, 3 sons of Don Reno. I can't accept any statement that there was any "iron" rules forbidding women in bluegrass bands. They were absolutely underrepresented, yet how do you explain the contributions of such pioneers as the Coon Creek Girls, Wilma Lee Cooper and Cousin Emmy?