There’s the emphasis on music, and the backdrop of Appalachia, and some of the dramatic polarity of city vs country. The first thing that attracted me to the books was the idea that these were mining the same vein that Manly Wade Wellman dug in with his Silver John stories. And Needsville changes, based on the events of the book, large and small.
There are some little side threads that weave through a couple of books, telling more of the stories of some secondary characters. The upshot of this is that you get a growing richness to the books, and a real sense of the community. It’s a pretty big revelation in the first book, and forms sort of a foundation for a number of plot points in the later books.)). They’re descendants of the Tuatha de Danann, exiled from the British Isles in the distant past. Each of the novels stands alone as a single story, but each one also layers in a lot of information about the Tufa ((That’s what they call themselves, and that’s what outsiders call them, too.)) and their community of Needsville, and their history ((I don’t want to give away too much, but you find out in the first book that They tell the stories of an insular group of people living in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, a group of people who have some strange connection to music and the magic that it can make.
There are currently five books in the Tufa novels: The Hum and the Shiver, Wisp of a Thing, Long Black Curl, Chapel of Ease, and the one I’m currently reading, Gather Her Round ((It’s the latest one, as I write this.)).
It wound up taking me forever to get to reading it, so I finally got the audiobook ((These days, I do a lot of my fiction “reading” via audiobook, usually on my commutes.)), which just happens to be read by one of my favourite narrators, Stefan Rudnicki. And I loved it. A few years back, I picked up a book called The Hum and the Shiver, by Alex Bledsoe.
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