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- early music, John Henry Marshall (talking)
- Interviews; Banjos;
- Jim Marshall talks about starting to play music at the age of 6, and some local musicians from then. This interview takes place in Jim's home near Hillsville, Virginia.
- Ferrum College
- He'll Know Me
- Singing; Spirituals; Pianos; Radio;
- The Melotone Quartet sings a Christian gospel song. This was possibly broadcast on Dewey Hill's radio program on WPAQ (Mt. Airy) or WBOB (Galax).
- Ferrum College
- Reply to John Mitchell
- Coal miners; Coal miners; Labor unions; Labor unions; Coal miners
- Contains letters by Eugene V. Debs and John Mitchell published in the Social Democratic Herald concerning the averted strike in 1904 of the United Mine Workers of America.
- West Virginia Wesleyan College
- History of Roanoke Community
- Early history of a West Virginia community.
- West Virginia Wesleyan College
- Bully of the Town
- Fiddle music; Banjos;
- Jim Shumate fiddles with Marc Pruett on banjo and Wayne Erbsen on mandolin. This session takes place in Wayne Erbsen's home in Hickory. Jim played with Bill Monroe for most of 1945, before joining the Foggy Mountain Boys with Lester Flatt and...
- Warren Wilson College
- Careless Love
- Banjos
- Tom McKinney plays banjo at Warren Wilson College, during a 5-string banjo styles concert featuring several other musicians. The concert was arranged by David Holt. Tom plays banjo in a Scruggs style. Careless Love is the third of a four part...
- Warren Wilson College
- Minutes of the Eightieth Annual Meeting of the New Salem Association of Old Regular Baptist
- Religion; Religious events
- This is a copy of the original Minutes of the Eightieth Annual Meeting of the New Salem Association of Old Regular Baptist held with the Enterprise Church, Pike County, Kentucky, on Friday and Saturday, September 22 and 23, 1905. Includes meeting...
- University of Pikeville
- Old Rattler
- Banjos;
- Janice Trail plays a banjo tune for Kip Lornell. This takes place in his home near Claytor Lake.
- Ferrum College
- Hop Along Lou
- Banjos;
- John Lawson Tyree plays a dance tune on the banjo for Kip Lornell during an interview. John is from Franklin County, Virginia.
- Ferrum College
- Go Tell It On the Mountain
- Accordions; ; Spirituals;
- Hiawatha Giles plays a tune on the accordion and sings a hymn. Frank Tolliver is also present. They live in Nelson County, Virginia, where this takes place. Frank and his cousin, John, learned their accordion style from their uncle, Frank...
- Ferrum College
- Uncle Frank (talking)
- Accordions; ; Interviews;
- John Tolliver talks with Kip Lornell about playing songs on the accordion. John is visiting his family in Nelson County. He has moved to Washington D.C. John and his cousin, Frank, learned accordion from their uncle, Frank Tolliver.
- Ferrum College
- Let Me Call You Sweetheart
- Mouth organs;
- Ray Barger plays the harmonica for Kip Lornell before an interview. Ray played guitar for the Roanoke Jug Band in the late 1920's and early 1930's. Other members include Mahon Overstreet (guitar), Clyde Dooley (banjo), Walter Keith (banjo),...
- Ferrum College
- history (talking)
- Shape Note Singing; Interviews;
- Rev. Blosser talks with Kip Lornell and Roddy Moore about the tradition of the New Year's singing that has just finished. Earlier, Mennonites sang at an annual event at Weaver's Mennonite Church near Harrisonburg, Virginia. This is the 75th...
- Ferrum College
- Sourwood Mountain
- Fiddle music; Banjos; Guitars;
- Abe Horton plays fiddle with Tom Carter on guitar and Blanton Owen on banjo. This takes place in Fancy Gap, Virginia.
- Ferrum College
- Poor Ellen Smith
- Banjos; Singing; Ballads;
- Abe Horton plays the banjo and sings a song about a murder in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. This takes place in Fancy Gap, Virginia.
- Ferrum College
- making a record in Bristol (talking)
- Pianos; ; Interviews;
- Clarice Shelor talks with Blanton Owen about her family making a record in Bristol in her youth during the 1920's. This takes place in her home in Meadows of Dan, Virginia.
- Ferrum College
- Under the Double Eagle
- Pianos; ; Fiddle music;
- Janis (Janie) Carper plays piano with her father, Roy, on the fiddle in his house in Newcastle, Virginia.
- Ferrum College
- Rose of San Antonio
- Pianos; ; Western Swing music;
- Janis (Janie) Carper plays piano in her father's house in Newcastle, Virginia. Her sister, Jennifer, and father, Roy, are also musicians.
- Ferrum College
- Irving Sharpe pranks (talking)
- Radio; Humor;
- Virgil Simmons tells a story about winning a guinea hen for a fiddle contest, and Irv letting them loose. Saford Hall tells a story of spelling confusion. This interview is being conducted by Kip Lornell with a group of musicians and announcers...
- Ferrum College
- Turkey in the Straw
- Bands; Radio; Fiddle music
- Musicians play a fiddle tune before a group interview begins. This interview is being conducted by Kip Lornell with a group of musicians and announcers who used to perform on live radio, in Roanoke Virginia through the late 1930's, 1940's and...
- Ferrum College