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Lornell, Kip, 1953-. Collection, 1973-1975.

Title: Collection, 1973-1975.

Performances and interviews with African American blues and pre- blues secular musicians from North Carolina. Music performed includes blues, old-time songs and tunes, boogie-woogie, and gospel songs, played on banjo, guitar and piano. Also included are an interview with Guy B. Johnson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill sociologist who studied African American musical traditions; interviews with the Chapel Hillbillies, a black string band in the 1920s and 1930s; a re-recording of Primitive Baptist singing by Elder Golden Harris and others, ca. 1932; and performances by Anglo-American fiddler and hammered dulcimer player Virgil Craven (1902-1980). Performers include Jamie Alston, Wilbert Atwater, Pernell Charity, George Letlow, Arthur Lyons, Lesley Riddle, Dink Roberts, John Snipes, Leo Strowd, Joe Thompson (1918- ), Odell Thompson (1911- ), Willy Trice (1910-1976), and Clarence Tross (1884-1977).

ArchivalResource: 31 sound recordings.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27190446 View

Lornell, Kip, 1953-. Collection, 1974.

Title: Collection, 1974.

Field recording of Clarence Tross (1884-1977), African-American old-time banjo player, of Mooresville, W. Va., who plays and sings a variety of songs from the old-time banjo repertoire, interspersed with recollections, lyric etiologies, discussion of playing techniques, descriptions of instrument-making methods for banjo, fiddle, and bones, and the popularity of the accordion as accompaniment for African-American square dancing.

ArchivalResource: 4 sound recordings.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27189187 View