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Book Synopsis North Carolina fiddler and banjo player Jim Scancarelli''s extensive career as a string band musician began in the early 1960s. A founding member of the Kilocycle Kowboys, one of Charlotte''s longest-lived bluegrass bands, he played banjo with the Mole Hill Highlanders, and in the 1980s formed Sanitary Cafe with fiddler Tommy Malboeuf. Through the 1970s, his annual recordings at the Union Grove Fiddlers Convention captured superlative music and performer interviews. Scancarelli also had a successful career as a freelance magazine artist and collaborated on the syndicated comic strips Mutt and Jeff and Gasoline Alley, eventually taking over authorship of the latter in 1986. This biography traces his creative trajectory in music, art, radio and television, and the cartooning industry.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
One. Early Life
Two. Radio and TV Life
Three. Learning Music
Four. Making Music
Five. A Mindset to Cartoon
Six. Music, and the Banjo, in Gasoline Alley
Conclusion: The Sweep of His Life Story
Appendix 1: Discography and Videography: Jim Scancarelli
Appendix 2: Gasoline Alley Strips Referenced in Chapter Six
Interviewees
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
