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Kentucky Traditional and Early Country Music Oral History Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0265
Abstract
Audio and video recorded interviews and performances with Kentucky traditional musicians and singers some of whom had radio performing careers mainly during the 1930s and 1940s. The interviews were conducted at various times over the period 1969-2008, by Reubein Powell, Ray Nemec, Loyal Jones, Stephen Green, Susan Eacker, and Harry Rice.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1969-2008
Walter McNew Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0136 SAA 136
Abstract
Walter McNew (1912 - 1998) inherited his knowledge of, and love for, shape note singing from his father, John G. McNew who was a fiddler, singing school teacher, and telegraph operator for the L&N Railroad in Rockcastle and Madison counties of Kentucky.
The earliest of his recordings were made by Walter and his siblings on reel-to-reel tape. These recordings document both Walter alone and as part of a family gospel quartet with siblings, Astor, Homer, and Bernice (Branaman).
The solo...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1930-1993
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