The Music of Uncle Dave Macon

Uncle Dave At Home

Uncle Dave At Home is a recent CD project funded by the Tennessee Arts Commission with the hope of introducing a whole new audience and perhaps a whole new generation to the music of Uncle Dave Macon.

Born in Warren County, Tennessee in 1870, Macon started his career by playing for family and friends and later helped found the Grand Ole Opry. "The Dixie Dewdrop" became a full-time entertainer in 1920 at the age of 50. Uncle Dave died just weeks after his last performance at 81.

The CD features Uncle Dave Macon at his most relaxed and authentic, sitting before his own fireplace on a warm spring Sunday afternoon in Kittrell, Tennessee, halfway between Murfreesboro and Woodbury. The recordings in this CD are informal, amateur recordings made on a portable tape recorder. They were made circa May 1950, a little over a year before Uncle Dave's death.

Improvements were made during the transfer from tape to CD. Digital mastering was performed at the Center for Popular Music at Middle Tennessee State University.

To purchase the Uncle Dave At Home CD, send $20 to Evan Hatch, The Arts Center of Cannon County, P.O. Box 111, Woodbury, TN or call 1 -800-235 -9073.