Country Music Express paper documentation and notes

File — Folder: 1

Identifier: Folder 1

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Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

This collection consists of (1) video and audio home recordings, (2) radio programs 1950s - 1970s, and (3) video field recordings, 2008, documenting a wide range of singers and instrumentalist from Whitley, Knox, and McCreary counties, Kentucky and just over the border in Tennessee. Especially notable are performances by fiddlers Claude Harmon and Marion Pridemore, and numerous other local musicians on the Country Music Express radio programs.

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The 2008 video recordings document two finger banjoist Junior McKeehan, fiddlers Claude Harmon, J.L. Burke, and Ulysses Grant "Dick" Taylor, and singers Margarette Bowlin and Jessie Martin.

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Also included in the collection are a small number of print materials, photographs, and written accounts that help document Gospel Quartet activity and local musicians heard on WCTT and other community stations.

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Dates

created: 1950-2008

Creator

From the Collection: Sears, William. (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Follow links in the recordings list to hear performances and interviews and read play lists and transcripts. The collection can be accessed directly through the Reading Room, Berea College Special Collections and Archives, Hutchins Library, Berea College.