Mike Seeger Collection, circa 1950s-2008, (bulk 1955-2002)
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Mike Seeger Collection, 1923-2012 (bulk 1955-2009)
During the 1950s and 1960s, collector,folklorist, and traditional music performer Mike Seeger recorded interviews andperformances of many legendary old-time and bluegrass musicians. The collection consists of open reel tape and DAT audiorecordings from 1955 to 2002, along with supporting logs and films. The audiorecordings include both live performances and Seeger's interviews with many notablebluegrass and old-time musicians; master tapes from various LP recording projects;and recordings of Seeger's own band, the New Lost City Ramblers. Of particularinterest are live concert recordings featuring such musicians as Tony Alderman, E.C. Ball, Dock Boggs, Buzz Busby, Alex Campbell and Ola Belle Reed, Maybelle Carter,Elizabeth Cotten, Sady Courville, Cousin Emmy, Hazel Dickens, Lester Flatt and EarlScruggs, Roscoe Holcomb, Mississippi John Hurt, Tommy Jarrell, the Jim Kweskin JugBand, Grandpa Jones, the Lilly Brothers, the Louvin Brothers, Carl Martin and TedBogan, Dennis McGee, Sam McGee and Kirk McGee (the McGee Brothers), Bill Monroe andCharlie Monroe (the Monroe Brothers), the Osborne Brothers, Don Reno, Marc Savoy,Red Smiley, Kilby Snow, the Stanley Brothers, Ernest V. Stoneman, J. C. Sutphin,Merle Travis, Wade Ward, Mac Wiseman, and the New Lost City Ramblers. Also includiedare recordings of various performances and workshops at festivals, including theAmerican Old-Time Music Festival, the Bean Blossom Music Festival, and the CulpeperMusic Festival. There are also recordings from the New Lost City Ramblers' Europeantour with Adam Landrenau and Cyp Landrenau, Cousin Emmy, and the Stanley Brothers.Performances were recorded at large and small venues, including New River Ranch nearRising Sun, Md.; Sunset Park, Pa.; and the Union Grove Fiddlers Convention in NorthCarolina. Seeger recorded in-depth interviews with many musicians, includingClarence Tom Ashley, the Benfield Family, Dock Boggs, Charlie Bowman, MaybelleCarter, Tommy Jarrell, Kirk McGee, Sam McGee, Eck Robertson, Leslie Riddle, KilbySnow, Ernest V. Stoneman, and Wade Ward. Of particular interest is Seeger'sinterview with Columbia Records talent scout Frank Walker. Other New Lost CityRamblers recordings include raw tracks and master tapes for the group's albums; liverecordings at folk festivals, colleges, and other venues; and band meetings.Supporting documentation includes Seeger's logs for all of the audio recordings andan artist index. The Addition of February 2003 contains films of Mike Seeger andother musicians, including films of an old-time music workshop in 1977 and aninterview with Mike Seeger. The Addition of July 2009 contains audio recordingsfeaturing many of the musicians represented in the collection and others,among them Eddie Adcock, Howard Armstrong, Kenny Baker, the Balfa Brothers, DeweyBalfa, Ted Bogan, Hylo Brown, Vassar Clements, Sady Courville, Kyle Creed, BobbyDurham, Flick Flaharty, Alice Gerrard, the Goins Brothers, Ted Gossett, SarahGunning, Bill Harrell, Doc Hopkins, Tommy Jarrell, Lily May Ledford, Tex Logan, CarlMartin, Jimmy Martin, Dennis McGee, Melvin Robinette, Montana Slim, Ralph Stanley,Carl Story, Tut Taylor, Doc Watson, Nimrod Workman. The addition alsocontains recordings of Mike Seeger's interviews with musicologist Charles Seeger.The Addition of May 2010 includes video footage from Seeger's documentary project, . The Addition of June 2011 includes photographs and some negatives of Mike Seeger and many of the artists represented in the collection. Many of the photographs were taken by Seeger or otherwise collected by him. There are also several related manuscript items, among them letters relating to photographs in the collection, promotional materials, and scattered journals related to folk music. The addition of April 2012 contains photographs of Mike Seeger, both on stage and off, throughout his career. Talking Feet
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107.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 75,000 items)
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