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    • Hatcher Hotel 14/20

    • Hatcher Hotel 14/20

    • 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
    • instruments, young black music (talking)

    • instruments, young black music (talking)

    • Guitars; ; Interviews;

    • Marvin and Turner Foddrell talk about instruments they remember being played in their youth, and the music of today's (1970's) black youth. Posey Fodrell is their father. They both live in Patrick County, where this interview with Kip Lornell...
    • Ferrum College
    • Wabash Cannonball

    • Wabash Cannonball

    • Pianos; ; Railroads;

    • Maggie Rader plays a tune on the piano during an interview with Kip Lornell. This takes place in her home in Newport, Virginia. Maggie also plays harmonica and banjo.
    • Ferrum College
    • Panhandle Rag

    • Panhandle Rag

    • Fiddle music; Banjos; Guitars;

    • Pug Allen plays fiddle with his son, George (banjo), and nephew, Glenn (guitar) at his Stuarts Draft home. Pug learned this song from Guy Carawan. He grew up near Montebello, VA and played banjo with the Skyline Boys in the 1940's.
    • Ferrum College
    • Greenfields #200

    • Greenfields #200

    • Shape Note Singing;

    • Members of Pikes Mennonite Church and visiting singers celebrate Ascension Day with singing from the Harmonia Sacra, first published by Joseph Funk in 1832.
    • Ferrum College
    • gigs, Floyd County Ramblers (talking)

    • gigs, Floyd County Ramblers (talking)

    • Bands; Interviews; Square dancing;

    • Ray Barger talks with Kip Lornell about the Roanoke Jug Band's gigs. Ray was the guitar player for the band in the late 1920's and early 1930's. Other members include Mahon Overstreet (guitar), Clyde Dooley (banjo), Walter Keith (banjo), Billy...
    • Ferrum College
    • recent recording (talking)

    • recent recording (talking)

    • Bands; Interviews;

    • Flynn Rigney and Richard Bigger talk with Kip Lornell about making records. Richard Bigger played fiddle for The Four Virginians. They are both members of The Virginia Partners, Flynn on guitar and vocals, and Richard on fiddle.
    • Ferrum College
    • Girl I Left Behind Me, The

    • Girl I Left Behind Me, The

    • Fiddle music; Guitars;

    • Jennifer Crawford plays guitar with her father, Roy, on the fiddle in his house in Newcastle, Virginia. Roy also talks with Pete Hartman about his fiddle and fiddle maker.
    • Ferrum College
    • Irv & the Kite (talking)

    • Irv & the Kite (talking)

    • Radio; Humor;

    • Dexter Mills talks about a kite that he built while working as a radio announcer. 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...
    • Ferrum College
    • white flour commercial (talking)

    • white flour commercial (talking)

    • Bands; Radio;

    • Mel Linkous talks about a prank someone pulled on him by lighting his script on fire. 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...
    • Ferrum College
    • Arkansas Traveller

    • Arkansas Traveller

    • Bands; Radio; Fiddle music

    • Tommy Magness fiddles with a band, performing live over a radio station in Roanoke, Virginia. Tommy was a member of Roy Hall's Blue Ridge Entertainers and also led the Orange Blossom Boys. Clayton Hall and Jay Hugh Hall were also in both of these...
    • Ferrum College
    • Lost Indian

    • Lost Indian

    • Bands; Radio; Fiddle music

    • Tommy Magness fiddles with a band, performing live over a radio station in Roanoke, Virginia. Tommy was a member of Roy Hall's Blue Ridge Entertainers and also led the Orange Blossom Boys. Clayton Hall and Jay Hugh Hall were also in both of these...
    • Ferrum College
    • smaller conventions, school houses (talking)

    • smaller conventions, school houses (talking)

    • Fiddle music;

    • Kyle Creed, Whit Sizemore, and others talk with Kip Lornell about preferences in conventions in the area and how they have changed. Kyle plays and makes banjos. Whit fiddled for the Shady Mountain Ramblers. This interview takes place in Kyle's...
    • Ferrum College
    • Someone Waiting for You

    • Someone Waiting for You

    • Interviews; Singing;

    • Mack Jenks sings an unaccompanied song about coal mining. This interview, by Roddy Moore takes place in Mack's home in McDowell County, West Virginia. Mack worked in the mines periodically from the ages of 13 to 59.
    • Ferrum College
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