# Fred Cockerham

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{{Infobox musical artist
| name                = Fred Cockerham
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| birth_date          = {{birth date|1905|11|03|df=y}}
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| origin              = [North Carolina](/source/North_Carolina), United States
| death_date          = {{death date and age|1980|07|08|1905|11|03|df=y}}
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| genre               = [American folk](/source/American_folk_music)
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| instrument          = [Fiddle](/source/Fiddle), [banjo](/source/banjo)
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'''Fred Cockerham''' (3 November 1905 - July 8, 1980) was an American [fiddle](/source/fiddle) and [banjo](/source/banjo) player of [American folk music](/source/American_folk_music).<ref name="Ray">{{cite web |url= https://fieldrecorder.org/fred-cockerham/|title= Fred Cockerham|author= Ray Alden|author-link= Ray Alden|date= |publisher= The Field Recorders' Collective|accessdate=August 8, 2010}}</ref>

Cockerham was one of the seven children of Elias and Betty Jane Cockerham in [North Carolina](/source/North_Carolina).<ref name="Ray"/> He was one of the most accomplished of all the [Round Peak, North Carolina](/source/Round_Peak%2C_North_Carolina) musicians but is most commonly known for being the banjo accompanist to [Tommy Jarrell](/source/Tommy_Jarrell). He played the fiddle in a more modern style than Jarrell, but played the fretless banjo in an old clawhammer style much like that of his old mentor, [Charley Lowe](/source/Charley_Lowe).<ref name="Ray"/>

==Discography==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Year
! Title
! Label
! Number
! Notes
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|1965||''Clawhammer Banjo: Old Time Banjo and Fiddle Tunes''||[County](/source/County_Records)||701|| reissued on County CD 2716, ''Clawhammer Banjo Vol 1'' (2002) with extra tracks
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|1968||''Down to the Cider Mill''||County||713|| with Tommy Jarrell & Oscar Jenkins. This and the two below LPs were reissued with the exception of several tracks on 2 County CDs - 2734 & 2735 (2004) <ref>own vinyl and CD copies</ref>  
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|1970||''Back Home in the Blue Ridge''||County||723||  
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|1973||''Stay All Night and Don't Go Home''||County||741|| 
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|1975||''[High Atmosphere: Ballads and Banjo Tunes from Virginia and North Carolina](/source/High_Atmosphere)''||[Rounder](/source/Rounder_Records)||0028||recorded by [John Cohen](/source/John_Cohen_(musician)) in 1965, reissued on Rounder CD 028 (1995) with 11 additional tracks
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|1976||''Music from Round Peak''||Heritage|| 10|| with Tommy Jarrell, Mac Snow et al.<ref>own vinyl copy</ref>
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|rowspan="2"|1978||''Under the Double Eagle''||Snowflake|| 103|| Fred's solo fiddle album 
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|''Southern Clawhammer''||[Kicking Mule](/source/Kicking_Mule_Records)|| KM 213|| several solo banjo tracks recorded by Ray Alden
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|1992||''Best Fiddle-Banjo Duets''||County||CD 2702||with Tommy Jarrell, duets now on the 2 County CDs 2734-2735 plus field recordings from the collection of Ray Alden & Dave Spilkia  (out-of-print)
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|2004||''Fred Cockerham''||[Field Recorders' Collective](/source/Field_Recorders'_Collective)||FRC 101||recorded by Ray Alden
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|rowspan="2"|2008||''Round Peak Volume 1''||Field Recorders' Collective||FRC 109||recorded by Ray Alden
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|''Round Peak Volume 2''||Field Recorders' Collective||FRC 110||recorded by Ray Alden
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|}

==References==
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Category:1905 births
Category:1980 deaths
Category:Old-time musicians
Category:Appalachian old-time fiddlers
Category:American banjoists
Category:People from Surry County, North Carolina
Category:20th-century American musicians

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