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- West Virginia Highway
- Fiddle music;
- Alan Jabbour plays fiddle for an audience in Warren Wilson College's Canon Lounge. This recording is from an annual Harwood-Cole Memorial Lecture. Alan considers Henry Reed (1884-1968) of Glen Lyn, Virginia to be his foremost fiddle mentor. ...
- Warren Wilson College
- Hatcher Hotel 15/20
- hotels; sayings; rural areas
- Mr. Hatcher spent time writing sayings and stories about local history and folk lore on the walls of his hotel. The Hatcher Hotel was located on Main St. in Pikeville, KY.
- University of Pikeville
- Sweet Sunny South
- Banjos;
- Janice Trail plays a banjo tune for Kip Lornell. This takes place in his home near Claytor Lake.
- Ferrum College
- Farther Along
- Dulcimers;
- Ed Harris plays dulcimer for Kip Lornell. This interview takes place in Ed's home in Chilhowie, Virginia. Ed makes dulcimers, including the one he is playing. Ed's mother played dulcimer and taught him to play.
- Ferrum College
- The Happy Land #344 metre 73
- Shape Note Singing;
- Mennonites sing at an annual event at Weaver's Mennonite Church near Harrisonburg, Virginia. This is the 75th anniversary of the event. They are singing out of a book called Harmonia Sacra, first published by Joseph Funk in 1832. This event...
- Ferrum College
- blacks in Pittsylvania Co. blues (talking)
- Bands; Interviews;
- Flynn Rigney and Richard Bigger talk with Kip Lornell about blacks in Pittsylvania County and their music. Richard Bigger played fiddle for The Four Virginians. They are both members of The Virginia Partners, Flynn on guitar and vocals, and...
- Ferrum College
- Chicken Reel
- Pianos; ; Fiddle music; Fiddle music
- Janis (Janie) Carper plays piano with her father, Roy, on the fiddle in his house in Newcastle, Virginia.
- Ferrum College
- Ring of Fire
- Pianos; ;
- Janis (Janie) Carper plays a Johnny Cash song on the piano in her father's house in Newcastle, Virginia. Her sister, Jennifer, and father, Roy, are also musicians.
- Ferrum College
- playing for free on the radio, show promotion (talking)
- Bands; Radio;
- Paul Reynolds talks about the mutual trade for musicians and radio station. 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,...
- Ferrum College
- bluegrass & old time compatibility (talking)
- Fiddle music; Fiddle music; Banjos;
- Kyle Creed, Whit Sizemore, and others talk with Kip Lornell about the difference in bluegrass and old time fiddling. Kyle plays and makes banjos. Whit fiddled for the Shady Mountain Ramblers. This interview takes place in Kyle's house, near...
- Ferrum College
- Old Joe Clark
- Bands; Fiddle music;
- Ted Boyd plays fiddle in his Endicott home in Franklin County, Virginia with a group of his neighbors and friends: Junior Shively (guitar), Hub McAlexander (guitar), and David Shively (banjo).
- Ferrum College
- Unidentified (blues guitar)
- Blues music; Guitars;
- Cowboy "T" Burks plays an instrumental of Chet Atkins on the electric guitar in his home in Low Moor, Virginia.
- Ferrum College
- Untitled (blues)
- Blues music; Guitars; Singing;
- Howard Twine sings and plays a song he wrote on the electric guitar. This takes place in Howard's home in Elliston, Virginia.
- Ferrum College
- Redwing
- Banjos;
- Mattie Oakes Jacobs plays the banjo in her home in Red Valley, Virginia, for interviewer, Vaughan Webb.
- Ferrum College
- Shake Your Little Foot
- Banjos; Singing;
- 'Big Sweet' Lewis Hairston sings and plays the banjo in his Henry County home. He was born in McDowell County, West Virginia.
- Ferrum College
- first recording session, Jimmie Rodgers (talking)
- ; Interviews;
- Janette Carter talks about her parent's first recording session in Bristol during an interview with Kip Lornell. Janette is the daughter of A.P. and Sara Carter.
- Ferrum College
- Unidentified (waltz)
- Fiddle music; Guitars;
- Spence Moore plays a waltz on his guitar with an unidentified fiddler. This takes place in Mountain City, Tennessee, where Spencer grew up. He now lives in Chilhowie, Virginia.
- Ferrum College
- Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
- Fiddle music; Pianos; Spirituals; Singing;
- Mary Adams plays piano with Bill Watson (fiddle) and Mr. & Mrs Sweet at the Blue Ridge Folklife Festival on the Bedford county stage.
- Ferrum College
- records, work (talking)
- Singing; Blues music; Interviews;
- Earl Gilmore talks with interviewer Vaughan Webb about a listening to Hank Williams. This takes place in Earl's home in Clinchco, Virginia. Earl worked in the coal mines there during his youth.
- Ferrum College
- Yes I Love You
- Blues music; Pianos; Singing;
- Earl Gilmore sings a song and plays piano in his home in Clinchco, Virginia. Earl worked in the coal mines there during his youth. Ivory Joe Hunter wrote this song.
- Ferrum College