Browse Collections (55 total)

Jake Krack

Recordings of fiddle tunes and stringband music made by Jake Krack in August 2006 at the Appalachian Stringband Festival, Clifftop, West Virginia.

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Jim Smoak Banjo Music

This collection is comprised of recorded interviews, transcripts, performance recordings, and additional materials documenting the music and…

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John Harrod Kentucky Fiddle Music

The collection is comprised of two-hundred (200) audio field recordings and eighty eight (88) video recordings of interviews and performances…

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John Lair - Renfro Valley Oral History

This collection consists of thirty audio recorded interviews with performers and others who were associated with the Renfro Valley Barn Dance and…

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John Lair Papers

These are the papers ofJohnLeeLair, pioneer country music broadcaster, music collector, and community historian. They consist mainly of business…

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John Miles Gospel Music Radio Program

This collection consists of sound recordings documenting radio performances of the Prichard Quartet and the Melody Five gospel singing groups from…

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John Morgan Salyer

This collection consists of forty eight acetate disc recordings made in the early 1940s that document Magoffin County, Kentucky fiddler and banjo…

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Josiah Combs

These are correspondence, manuscripts, collected ballad texts, tune transcriptions, and other spoken lore collected by folksong, folklore and language…

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Lee Knight

This collection consists mainly of interviews and performances by several traditional musicians and story tellers, their associates, and scholars. The…

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Leonard Roberts Papers

These are the papers and sound recordings of Kentucky folklorist, Leonard Ward Roberts (1912-1983). They are comprised mainly of correspondence,…

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Lily May Ledford

The collection consists of autobiographical writing, press clippings, articles, and photographs documenting the career of early country music…

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Loyal Jones Rural/Country Comedy Reference

This collection is comprised ofLoyalJones’ research and reference materials about humorists and country music performers—including performers from…

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