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Curley Collins

The Curley Collins collection documents the musician's career with news clippings, radio station program listings, and advertisements; photographs;…

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Disputanta Oral History

These are audio recorded interviews that document thehistoryof theDisputantacommunity in northern Rockcastle County, Kentucky. Also included in the…

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Doc Roberts Papers

Papers of Fiddlin' Doc Roberts (b. 1897, d. 1978), a fiddler born in Madison County, Kentucky; among the state's first traditional musicians to be…

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Ed Ward

Ed Ward was a private record and tape collector, poet, prose writer, and community historian who lived at Bledsoe in Harlan County, Kentucky. The…

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Ernest C. Martin Radio Program

The programs in this collection, entitled "Highway to Heaven," date mostly from 1950 and were recorded for a Frankfort, Kentucky radio station. An…

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Fern Rollyson

Field recordings and West Virginia Folk Festival stage performances recorded by Fern Rollyson in the late 1950s and at various times during the 1960s.

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Homer Ledford Radio Program

This collection consists of 213 non-commercial audio cassettes and seven open reel tape recordings ofLedford's radio program,Kentucky Traditionswhich…

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Indiana University Folktale Workshop

The Hutchins Library - IndianaUniversityFolktale Workshop was a three-week research residency held in Berea July 7-26,2003. It was sponsored jointly…

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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 Papers

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

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