Strike Up The Bow, by Gene Goforth

Strike Up The Bow

by Gene Goforth

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The rivers around Eminence, Missouri run swift, clear, and cold, making a special kind of music. The people around Eminence make a special kind of music too, a rich contribution to Missouri's traditions. Gene Goforth is a fiddler from Eminence. His father played the fiddle, his aunts and uncles all played music as do his brothers and sisters.

Gene started fiddling at square dances when he was about nine. He'd fiddle to piano accompaniment, sitting on a stool, swing his legs in time to the music. He recalls, "There was always some moonshine at the dances down there, and every once in a while they'd slip me a drink. If they'd slip me one once too often, then I'd fall asleep on the stool and wouldn't wake up til the dance was over".

After his service in WW II he moved to St. Louis and joined Roy Queen,playing country music for eight years. Although he was not to join a band again for 15 years he became prominent in St. Louis "kitchen-picking" circles, where traditional Ozark musicians transplanted
their music and experimented with newer "bluegrass"form as the rest of the world turned to TV and rock-&-roll. John Hartford learned much of his music in these kitchens, and much of his fiddling from Gene.

In the late '60's people began to rediscover making music together and being together, through the first Missouri bluegrass festivals. More & more of Missouri's fine traditional musicians came out of the kitchen,
their skills prtzed and appreciated as in the old days. Gene's wife, NiJ.a, enjoyed the festivals and the bluegrass and encouraged him to fiddle in the jam sessions.

When Dub Crouch invited him to join the Bluegrass Rounders in the summer of 1973, he was ready again to join a band. Dub Crouch, Norman Ford & the Bluegrass Rounders is Missouri's foremost traditional bluegrass band. Gene Goforth's fiddling -traditional, carefully blended with bluegrass forms -is ideally suited to the band's style. His tunes are an important part of their shows. His favorites are collected and presented here-the fiddling once heard only in the hills of Shannon County, now on record for everyone. --- By Adena Cook

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released January 21, 2019

Digitized from the LP by MSOTFA

Original Album Credits:

Produced and Recorded by Parvin Tramel
Remix Engineer - Bill Shulenburg
Master Engineer - Dick Grady
Photography - Gene Gurley
Recorded at Professional Artist Recording Studio, St. Louis, MO

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