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Steve Ledford Home Recordings Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0138 SAA 138
Abstract
Steve Ledford started playing fiddle at age seven and performed extensively in his home community with his father and sisters. In 1929 as part of the Carolina Ramblers String Band, he played on radio in New York City where the group also made 20 recordings for the American Record Company.
In subsequent years, back in North Carolina, he played with several other notable early country music artists including Wade Mainer, Zeke Morris, Clyde Moody, Jay Hugh and Roy Hall. With these musicians,...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1958-1980
T.J. Wood Jr. Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0139 SAA 139
Abstract
Born in Berea in 1921, Thomas J. Wood, Jr. was a Navy veteran of World War II and a graduate of Harvard University and the Harvard Business School. Wood had a lifelong career in advertising. Acting as an agent for John Lair, Wood would sell a package of three network Renfro Valley radio programs—the Saturday night Barn Dance, Sunday Morning Gathering, and Country Store—to General Foods in New...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1949-1970
William Sears Home and Field Recordings Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0130 SAA 130
Scope and Contents
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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Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1950-2008