Charlie Bowman
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Charles Thomas Bowman (July 30, 1889 – May 20, 1962) was an American old-time fiddle player and string band leader. He was a major influence on the distinctive fiddle sound that helped shape and develop early Country music in the 1920s and 1930s.[3] After delivering a series of performances that won him the first prize in dozens of fiddle contests across Southern Appalachia in the early 1920s, Bowman toured and recorded with several string bands and vaudeville acts before forming his own band, the Blue Ridge Music Makers, in 1935. In his career, he would be associated with country and bluegrass pioneers such as Uncle Dave Macon, Fiddlin' John Carson, Roy Acuff, Charlie Poole, and Bill Monroe.[4]
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Background information | |
Birth name | Charles Thomas Bowman |
Also known as | "Fiddlin' Charlie Bowman", "Fox Hunt Charlie" |
Born | July 30, 1889 Gray Station, Tennessee, USA. |
Died | May 20, 1962 |
Genres | Old-time music |
Instrument(s) | Fiddle |
Years active | c. 1920–1957 |
Labels | Vocalion, Brunswick, Columbia |