A Moonshiner And His Money – Charlie Bowman

Charlie Bowman and His Brothers from the hills of Tennessee to youtube. Columbia records 1st country music genre recording. Charlie was known as “the champion fiddler of East Tennessee,” so named for winning more than two-dozen fiddle contests.His future credentials would include being a 2001 inductee into the North American Fiddler’s Hall of Fame.He was a major recording artist, vaudeville performer, songwriter, and a member of several musical groups, including Al Hopkins and His Buckle Busters (the Hill Billies).Charlie had a talent for generating atypical sounds from his fiddle, ranging from a couple of hound dogs chasing a red fox through the Tennessee hills to a barnyard selection with cacklings from a gobbler and a bantam hen.He could play fifteen standard and several not-so-conventional instruments: brooms, saws, washtubs, thick balloons, a homemade one-string bass, and even an underfeed furnace.In 2006, a major discovery was made of the “Lost Suitcase Collection,” a previously unknown cache of photos, tour memorabilia, and news stories on Charlie and the Bowman family of touring musicians

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