Fiddlin' John Carson

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Fiddlin' John Carson (March 23, 1868 – December 11, 1949) was an American "old-time" folk fiddler and an early-recorded country musician. Carson was born in (or near) Fannin County, Georgia, and grew up on a farm there. His father worked as a section foreman for the W&A Railroad Company. In his teens, Carson learned to play the fiddle, using an old Stradivari-copy violin brought from Ireland in the early 18th century. When he was eleven years old he used to roam the streets of Copperhill playing for tips. In his teens, he worked as a racehorse jockey. In 1894, he was married and a couple of years later, in 1900, he began working for the Exposition Cotton Mill in Atlanta followed by work in other cotton mills of the Atlanta area for the next twenty years, eventually he was promoted to be a foreman. In 1911, Carson's family moved to Cabbagetown, Georgia and he and his children began working for the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill. Three years later, in 1914, the workers of the cotton mill went on strike for their right to form a union, and Carson had nothing else to do but to perform for a living in the streets of North Atlanta. In these days, he wrote many songs and he used to print copies and sell them in the streets for a nickel or a dime. Some of the songs he wrote dealt with real life drama like the murder ballad "Mary Phagan". Because the governor of Georgia, John Marshall Slaton, commuted the death sentence of the accused murderer of Mary Phagan to a life sentence, Carson, i

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'fiddlin' John Carson Vol.1 1923-1924

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Fiddlin John Carson, Vol.1: 1923-1924

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Fiddlin' John Carson, Vol.5: 1927 - 1929

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People Take Warning 2: Man Vs. Nature

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People Take Warning! Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs 1913-1938

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Back Roads to Cold Mountain

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People Take Warning [Disc 2] Man Vs. Nature

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Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard: Hard Time, Good Time, And End Time Music, 1923-1936

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Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard: Hard Time, Good Time & End Time Music, 1923-1936

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Vol. 1 (1923-1924) - Complete Recorded Works In Chronological Order

Fiddlin John Carson Vol. 1 1923 - 1924

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