Spring Fed Records General Information
Spring Fed Records is the music production
program of the Arts Center of Cannon County, a non-profit arts organization
in the small town of Woodbury in Middle Tennessee. Begun in 2002, Spring
Fed Records has grown quickly, producing critically acclaimed CD releases
every year. Spring Fed produces only the finest old-time, bluegrass and
traditional gospel recordings as well as reissuing significant historical
musical recordings.
Our first three releases Uncle Dave at Home, Billy Womack in Retrospect,
and Sam and Kirk Live: 1955-1967 are the highest
quality factory produced CDs. Spring Fed Records recently began production
of custom print on demand CDs. These high quality one-off CDs allow Spring
Fed to produce multiple CD releases simultaneously. In 2006 Spring Fed Records
joined forces with Dr. Steven Davis of Davis Unlimited Records to remaster
and reproduce some of the core recordings of the 1970s Davis Unlimited Catalog.
Spring Fed Records currently produces twenty-one of these titles. Eventually
we hope to release the entire Davis Unlimited Catalog.
Spring Fed's next project resulted in a Grammy Award for Album Notes for co-producer Bruce Nemerov. This recording, John Work III: Recording Black Culture along with is accompanying travelling exhibit celebrates the contributions of Fisk University folklorist who travelled the south recording african american musical forms in the 1930s and 1940s.
2009 saw the release of the Spring Fed Records/Cedar Glade Productions DVDs. These titles are the product of intensive field studies conducted by Buddy Ingram in Lebanon, Tennessee. Each of the seven titles features fine performances from luminaries of the old time music circuit, including Will Keys, Charlie Acuff and Clyde Davenport. 2009 also saw the release of Howard "Howdy" Forrester: The MGM Recordings. Howdy (above) was the longtime fiddler in Roy Acuff's Smokey Mountain Boys and one of the most influential fiddlers of all time. What's next? We'll keep working hard to bring you the best music we can. Keep checking back to see what's up our sleeve.
Want to learn more about Howdy Forrester? Read all about Howdy in Gayel Pitchford's new treatment Fiddler of the Opry: The Howdy Forrester Story, available at the website www.howdyforrester.com.
