Radio programs.

Abstract Homer C. Ledford was an instrument maker and bluegrass musician from Winchester, Kentucky who specialized in making dulcimers, banjos, and mandolins. He was born in Alpine, Tennessee, where he started building instruments at an early age. At age eighteen he became a student at John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, North Carolina and eventually went on to Berea College, and what is now Eastern Kentucky University where he graduated in 1954. Ledford taught industrial arts at George...

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Radio Programs: WLW Seven Pinex Merrymakers 1938. Dubbed to DAT by Ed Dooley from his private collection.

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Radio Programs: WLW Six Pinex Merrymakers [1937-1938]. Dubbed to DAT by Ed Dooley from his private collection.

Scope and Contents Renfro Valley Gatherin' nd.: Originating from Louisville. Jones Sisters / Jerry Behrens / Davidson Brothers / Shape note singers from Cedar Springs Baptist Church, Casey County, KY [Late 1947-Early 1948] (DAT copy lost. JB digitized from original disc.) SEE CD LISTENING COPY IN BOX 85Listen To Recording Part 1...

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[001] Renfro Valley Barn Dance 2-4-39 WLW 6692 / 6694 (JL-DT-005 / 006 and JL-OR-001 / 002) [002] Renfro Valley Barn Dance 2-4-39 WLW (No Number) (JL-DT-005 / 006 and JL-OR-001 / 002)

Scope and Contents This collection documents several early country music radio performers, their sponsors and radio stations, mainly during the 1930s and 1940s. The collection includes promotional material for radio stations, country music performers, and sponsors in the form of songbooks, family photo albums, calendars, program histories, and autograph books. There are also performer photographs, print publications, advertising posters and an unpublished scrap book compiled by an unknown radio...

Scope and Contents Thirteen non-commercial audio cassette recordings, Dec. 1988 - June 1990, of Over Home, a radio program series documenting Western North Carolina traditional musicians and storytellers that aired on WNCW in Spindale, North Carolina. Listen To Programs / Read Play Lists Episodes cover...

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Renfro Valley Barn Dance 12-29-51: Coon Creek Girls / Slim Miller / Claude Sweet / Junior DeFore / Wayne Turner / Emory Martin / Reual & Flossie Thomas / Granny Harper / Redbud Trio / Ray Sosby TWJ-CT-001.

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Renfro Valley Barn Dance 8-23-64 1 of 2 May be original for RP-01-003-008. Farmer Sisters / Old Joe Clark / Ralph Marcum / Don Harper / Russ & Jo Fisher / Red Brigham / B. Lucas / Baker Brothers / Clarence Walls.

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Renfro Valley Barn Dance 7-6-68. Farmer Sisters, B. Lucas, Jo Fisher, Ralph Marcum, Blue Grass Drifters, Old Joe Clark, Don Harper, Howard (Nick) Foley, Jewell Robinson, Charlie Harrison, Pete Stamper, Baker Brothers. (Seems not to be duplicated in the Reuben Powell Collection)

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