| Summary: | Carter Rushing was born in 1920 near Troy, Alabama, the son of Eula Spivey Rushing, a well-known fiddler in Pike County who performed at dances and frequently won at fiddlers' conventions. She had twelve children, most of whom played instruments and backed her up at square dances (Reynolds Rushing was a popular bluegrass fiddler in the area). Though Rushing lived in Columbus, Georgia, and worked as a nurse most of his adult life, he frequently returned to Troy to hunt and play fiddle at Rex Locklar's gatherings at the Henderson Community Center, where this session was recorded. He died of a heart attack in November 1987 and was greatly missed by the musical community in Pike County.
The recordings included here were made by Joyce Cauthen as part of fieldwork for "Possum up a Gum Stump: Home, Field and Commercial Recordings of Alabama Fiddlers," an LP album produced by Brierfield Ironworks Park Foundation with additional funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Alabama State Council on the Arts.
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