Guthrie "Gus" Turner Meade Jr. (May 17, 1932 – February 8, 1991) was an American folklorist of early country music[1] and Kentucky fiddle music.
[2][3] Meade was born in Louisville, Kentucky[4] to Sarah Isabel Ballard and Guthrie Turner Meade Sr. Meade served in the US Air Force where he started his career as a computer programmer and systems analyst.
In 1965, he began working at the Library of Congress Folk Music Archives.
[6] For the remainder of his life, Meade researched and collaborated with other fiddle and traditional folk music scholars, annotating a comprehensive discography of some 14,500 recordings.
[7] The Guthrie T. Meade Collection is housed in the Southern Folklife Collection in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library.