Country music -- Kentucky -- Renfro Valley -- History.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
John Lair Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0066 SAA 066
Abstract
The John Lair papers document the life of country music broadcaster, music collector, and community historian John Lee Lair (1894-1985).
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1930-1999
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