William Sears home and field recordings collection [sound recording] / by William Sears.

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William Sears home and field recordings collection [sound recording] / by William Sears.

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This collection consists of home video and audio recordings and radio programs, 1950s - 1970s, and video field recordings made in 2008 that document a wide range of singers and instrumentalist from Whitley, Knox, and McCreary counties in Kentucky and just over the border in Tennessee. Especially notable are performances by fiddlers Claude Harmon and Marion Pridemore, the Prichard Quartet and Melody Five Gospel groups and numerous other local musicians on the Country Music Express radio programs. The video recordings from 2008 document then present day musicians and singers ranging in age from 60 to 85. Among these are two finger banjoist Junior McKeehan, fiddlers J.L. Burke and Ulysses Grant "Dick" Taylor, and singers Margarette Bowlin and Jessie Martin.

6 sound cassettes, 23 reel-to-reel audio tapes, 28 videodiscs, 3 instantaneous discs : analog, mono.

Berea College, Hutchins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7917363

Berea College, Hutchins Library

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Pridemore, Marion

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McKeehan, Junior

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WEZJ (Radio Station: Williamsburg, Kentucky)

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Sears, William.

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Martin, Jesse L.

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WBNT (Radio Station: Oneida, Tennessee)

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Taylor, Ulysses Grant "Dick"

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Burke, J.L.

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Bowlin, Margarette

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Harmon, Claude, 1943-

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