Ep 15.5 - In sacred trust: Stephen Wade, Fleming Brown & Hobart Smith

The Archives Podcast

This is a special mini episode on the musical lineage between Hobart Smith, Fleming Brown, and Stephen Wade, who was featured on our last episode. You’ll hear archival recordings of Hobart and Fleming, as well as excerpts from Stephen’s conversation with Old Town School teaching artist Matt Brown this spring, as part of our oral history partnership with StoryCorps. Stephen began playing banjo at the Old Town School as a student of Fleming Brown and has since become a prominent folklorist, banjo player and researcher whose accomplishments include the one man show Banjo Dancing and his recent book The Beautiful Music All Around Us. Go to www.oldtownschool.org/StoryCorps to learn more about our partnership with StoryCorps, and to hear excerpts of other interviews collected over the past year. Original recordings featured in this episode (in order of occurrence): - “Pateroller” performed by Stephen Wade, 4/13/17 - StoryCorps conversation between Stephen Wade & Matt Brown, 4/13/17 - “Poor Ellen Smith” performed by Hobart Smith at Coffee, circa 1963 - “Pateroller” (fast and slow) performed by Hobart Smith at Fleming Brown’s home, 1963 - Conversation between Hobart Smith and Fleming Brown at Brown home, 1963 - “Chinquapin Pie” performed by Hobart Smith at Fleming Brown’s home, 1963 - “Down in a Willow Garden” performed by Dodi Kallick & Hobart Smith, circa 1963 - “Down in a Willow Garden” performed by Fleming Brown & Ray Tate, 333 W North Ave, 4/15/1962 - “Fare Thee Well, Old Ely Branch” performed by Fleming Brown, 333 W North Ave, 4/15/1962 - “Chinquapin Pie” performed by Stephen Wade, 4/13/17 Recommended listening & reading: - In Sacred Trust: The 1963 Fleming Brown Tapes feat. Hobart Smith, produced by Stephen Wade - The Beautiful Music All Around Us by Stephen Wade