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...

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 There are also performer photographs, print publications, advertising posters and an unpublished scrap book compiled by an unknown radio...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...

Abstract The collecting activity reflected in this collection began in the early 1950s and continued well into the 1970s. After Rueben Powell’s 1968 retirement from work as chief utility engineer at Wright Patterson Airforce Base in Ohio, Powell and his wife Retha started the Renfro Valley Tape Club as a means of sharing the fruits of his collecting with other country music fans. Its appeal was particularly substantial among Powell's contemporaries who were disenchanted with the then newer country...