Wade Ward
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 53 years ago |
Date of birth | October 15,1892 |
Zodiac sign | Libra |
Born | Independence |
Virginia | |
United States | |
Date of died | May 29,1971 |
Died | Independence |
Virginia | |
United States | |
Genres | Old-time Music |
Albums | Music of Roscoe Holcomb and Wade Ward |
Uncle Wade - A Memorial to Wade Ward: Old Time Virginia Banjo Picker, 1892-1971 | |
Record labels | Folkways Records |
Okeh Records | |
County Records | |
Biograph Records | |
Songs | Chilly Winds |
Old Reuben | |
Sally Ann | |
Lone Prairie | |
June Apple | |
Mississippi Sawyer | |
Half Shaved | |
Old Jimmy Sutton | |
Cluck Old Hen | |
Old Joe Clark | |
Peachbottom Creek | |
Sourwood Mountain | |
John Lover is Gone | |
New River Train | |
Uncle Eef Got a Coon | |
Hollyding | |
Married Man's Blues | |
Arkansas Traveler | |
Interview / Cripple Creek | |
Johnson Boys | |
Half-Shaved Nigger | |
Black Mountain Rag | |
Shady Grove | |
Polly Put the Kettle On | |
Nancy Blevins | |
Conversation Between Wade Ward and Glen Smith / Arkansas Traveler / Katy Hill's recollections of the Fiddler's Convention | |
Cumberland Gap | |
Nitches Over the Hill | |
Ida Red | |
Waterbound | |
Ragtime Annie | |
Katy Hill describes Wade learning to play music / Billy in the Lowground | |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 1148336 |
Wade Ward Life story
Wade Ward was an American old-time music banjo player and fiddler from Independence, Virginia. He was widely known playing the clawhammer banjo and frequently won the Galax, Virginia Old Time Fiddler's Convention. His instrument, a Gibson RB-11 5-string banjo, is now in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution.