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    • Texas Gladden, dulcimers (talking)

    • Texas Gladden, dulcimers (talking)

    • Interviews; Ballads; Dulcimers;

    • King Edward Smith talks about his family's musical talent and the absence of dulcimers at dances for an interview in his home with Kip Lornell. Ed is the brother of banjo player Hobart Smith, and ballad singer, Texas Gladden. He lives near...
    • Ferrum College
    • Tough Luck Blues

    • Tough Luck Blues

    • Banjos; Fiddle music; Singing;

    • Leonard Bowles plays fiddle with Irvin Cook singing and playing banjo. They both live in Henry County, Virginia.
    • Ferrum College
    • Unnamed blues tune

    • Unnamed blues tune

    • Guitars; Blues music; ; Singing;

    • Marvin Foddrell talks about Blind Boy Fuller's influence and then plays an original tune on his acoustic guitar. He is the son of Posey Foddrell, brother of Turner, and a resident of Patrick County, where this interview takes place.
    • Ferrum College
    • Arkansas Traveller

    • Arkansas Traveller

    • Mouth bow;

    • Sam Tomlin plays a mouth bow, which he calls a delcimore, for Kip Lornell. This takes place in his home near Love Mountain, in Amherst County.
    • Ferrum College
    • God is Real

    • God is Real

    • Accordions; Singing; ;

    • John Tolliver plays a tune on the accordion. Hiawatha Giles is also present and can be heard singing. 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,...
    • Ferrum College
    • Divine Compassion #148

    • Divine Compassion #148

    • 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
    • Allen family tragedy (talking)

    • Allen family tragedy (talking)

    • Interviews; Ballads;

    • Jim Marshall talks about a local murder and the issues involved. There are songs written about this event, but they were not sung around the area. It was too close to home. This interview takes place in Jim's home near Hillsville, Virginia.
    • Ferrum College
    • Easter Anthem #304 metre: various

    • Easter Anthem #304 metre: various

    • 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
    • Sandy River Belle

    • Sandy River Belle

    • Pianos; ; Banjos;

    • Clarice Shelor plays a tune on her piano with the interviewer, Blanton Owen, playing clawhammer banjo. This takes place in her home in Meadows of Dan, Virginia.
    • Ferrum College
    • Groundhog

    • Groundhog

    • Radio; Dulcimers; Fiddle music;

    • JW Chesterman plays a tune on his dulcimer. John Blakemore is the announcer and introduces the musicians at the fourth annual White Top Fiddlers' Convention. This was recorded live and then broadcast over the radio after the festival by WRVA,...
    • Ferrum College
    • Sweet Jane

    • Sweet Jane

    • Radio; Ballads; Fiddle music;

    • Mrs. Clyde Sturgill, from Konnarock, Virginia, sings a ballad. John Blakemore is the announcer and introduces the musicians at the fourth annual White Top Fiddlers' Convention. This was recorded live and then broadcast over the radio after the...
    • Ferrum College
    • Hipple Creek (talking)

    • Hipple Creek (talking)

    • Singing; Interviews;

    • Clarence Tross talks about a song and sings it without the banjo for interviewer, Roddy Moore. This takes place at his home in Durgon, West Virginia, in Hardy County. Listen to Clarence talking singing the song with the banjo: fe22508, or playing...
    • Ferrum College
    • Johnson's Old Grey Mule

    • Johnson's Old Grey Mule

    • Fiddle music; Guitars;

    • Spencer Moore plays guitar with his brother, Joe also playing guitar. Willis Rhymer is playing the fiddle. This takes place in Mountain City where the Moore brothers were raised. Spencer now lives in Chilhowie, Virginia.
    • Ferrum College
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