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Richard Blaustein Papers

Collection

Identifier: AppMs-0111

Scope and Contents The Richard Blaustein Collection contains photographs, tapes, newsclippings, a scrapbook, correspondence, and publications which relate to the study and teaching of the history of country music, performances of the Dixie Dewdrops, the Old Time Country Radio Reunion, the Homefolks Festival and the Folk Artists-in-the-Schools program.In 2000, an addition to the collection was processed. Included in the addition to the Richard Blaustein Collection are open reel audiotapes of...

Dates: 1945-1981

Found in: Archives of Appalachia

J. E. Brooks Collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: AppMs-0399

Scope and Contents The J. E. Brooks Collection consists of commercial recordings (some original but primarily audiocassette copies) of music by the original Carter Family, A. P. Carter and family, Maybelle Carter and family and printed matter (primarily photocopies of books, periodicals, and published articles) about the Carters. Also included is one cassette recording of the Virginia Boys (Doc Addington and Carl McConnell, respectively brother and cousin of Maybelle Carter) and one cassette recording of Peter...

Dates: 1927-1992

Found in: Archives of Appalachia

Jack Tottle Bluegrass and Old Time Music Collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: AppMs-0386

Arrangement

The Jack Tottle Bluegrass and Old Time Music Collection consists of one series of audio tapes. The tapes are arranged according to the original list given to the archives by Jack Tottle. The tapes are numbered consecutively. The master tapes are reel-to-reel audio; cassette user copies have been dubbed from the masters. Each tape (with a few exceptions) contains a detailed list of that tape's contents.

Dates: 1940-1976

Found in: Archives of Appalachia

Ronald McConnell Collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: AppMs-0636

Scope and Contents The collection contains information and a sound recording relating to the musical career of Doc Addington and Carl McConnell (Doc and Carl, The Virginia Boys). There are biographies and autobiographies as well as an article about the Carter Family with Chet Atkins and a second article about Chet Atkins. The sound recording is an audiocassette of four shows aired by WRNL Radio in Richmond, Virginia. The audiocassette was made by a man named A.C. Griffith from WRNL transcription disks that...

Dates: 1946-2003

Found in: Archives of Appalachia

Southern Songbirds: The Women of Early Country and Old-Time Music

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: AppMs-0387

Scope and Contents "Southern Songbirds: The Women of Early Country and Old-Time Music" was a 13-part radio series developed in the late 1980s by Rachel Anne Goodman, at the time an employee of Appalshop in Whitesburg, Kentucky. The series focused on women who were important to the development of country and old-time music and aired on public radio stations in 1990 and consists of interviews by Rachel Anne Goodman and segments of the artists’ music.There are also typed transcripts to tape 5 (Jean...

Dates: 1989-1990

Found in: Archives of Appalachia

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Richard Blaustein Papers

J. E. Brooks Collection

Jack Tottle Bluegrass and Old Time Music Collection

Ronald McConnell Collection

Southern Songbirds: The Women of Early Country and Old-Time Music

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