Matokie Slaughter References External links Navigation menuSocial Security Death Index"Here & There""Historic Recordings Tell Clawhammer Banjo History"Matokie Slaughter"Femme Vital: Margaret Kilgallen Hand in Hand"Archived"Margaret Kilgallen, Gallery 16"Matokie Slaughterno99050627f8d704f6-3f47-4307-8d87-8fcf5330763f70270317027031

1919 births1999 deathsPeople from Pulaski, VirginiaOld-time musiciansAmerican banjoists20th-century American musicians


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This article is about the banjo player. For the artist who used the pseudonym Matokie Slaughter, see Margaret Kilgallen.



















Matokie Slaughter
Birth nameMatokie Worrell
BornDecember 21, 1919
Pulaski, Virginia, U.S.
DiedDecember 31, 1999(1999-12-31) (aged 80)
Pulaski, Virginia, U.S.
Genres
clawhammer, old time music
Occupation(s)musician
Instruments
banjo, fiddle
Years active1940s–1990s
Labels
County Records, Marimac Recordings
Associated actsMatokie Slaughter & The Back Creek Buddies


Matokie Worrell Slaughter (December 21, 1919[1] – December 31, 1999), sometimes known as "Tokie" Slaughter, was an American clawhammer banjo player.


Born in Pulaski, Virginia, to a large musical family, Slaughter performed regularly with her family on local radio in the 1940s. She and her sister Virgie (later Virgie Worrel Richardson) also appeared regularly at local fiddler's conventions. She was discovered by the larger old-time music community when some of her recordings appeared on Charles Faurot's clawhammer banjo anthologies during the 1960s. Later, she made many appearances at folk music festivals and workshops throughout the US and formed a band called Matokie Slaughter & The Back Creek Buddies with her sister Virgie and old-time music revivalist Alice Gerrard. The band issued a cassette-only release, Saro, in 1990.[2][3][4]


Slaughter is known for her unique, driving style of clawhammer banjo playing, with complex noting and double-noting and featuring both uppicking and downpicking.[2] She also occasionally played fiddle.


During the 1990s, San Francisco artist Margaret Kilgallen began drawing freight-train graffiti using the name "Matokie Slaughter" as an homage to the original Matokie Slaughter. A fictionalized version of Matokie Slaughter also figured prominently in many of Kilgallen's non-graffiti artworks.[5]



References




  1. ^ Social Security Death Index


  2. ^ ab "Here & There" by John Currie, The Old-Time Herald 7:3, Spring 2000.


  3. ^ "Historic Recordings Tell Clawhammer Banjo History", All Things Considered, March 21, 2006. (links to RealAudio audio files)


  4. ^ Matokie Slaughter at AllMusic


  5. ^

    • "Femme Vital: Margaret Kilgallen Hand in Hand" Archived 2006-09-06 at the Wayback Machine by Michele Lockwood, Super X Media #2.2, 1998.


    • "Margaret Kilgallen, Gallery 16"[permanent dead link] by Maria Porges, ArtForum, May 1997.






External links



  • Matokie Slaughter at Digital Library of Appalachia. – links to streaming MP3 audio of a number of Matokie Slaughter performances.






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