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"The Ballad of Fiddling Tom Freeman: Music, Moonshine, and Murder in Bug Tussle, Alabama" is a riveting portrait of a forgotten America, drawn from the handwritten memoirs of a bootlegger, fiddler, and chronicler of life in Bug Tussle, Alabama. Born in 1883 in rural Cullman County, Fiddling Tom Freeman taught himself to play on a homemade fiddle at age nine. To support his family, Freeman became a moonshiner, and his fiddle often helped him avoid trouble with the law until a prison sentence at Kilby Prison changed the course of his life.Joyce H. Cauthen served as director of the Alabama Folklife Association from 2000 to 2010. An expert on folk music traditions in Alabama, she is the author of "With Fiddle and Well-Rosined Bow: A History of Old-Time Fiddling In Alabama," "Out of Whole Cloth: The Life of Bettye Kimbrell," and "Benjamin Lloyd’s Hymn Book."
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