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West Virginia and Regional History Center

Ivan M. Tribe and Jacob Bapst, Compilers, Records regarding West Virginia Country Music Performers, 1925/2015, bulk 1930/1960

14.22 Gigabytes 1,415 files, formats include .tif, .jpg, .ppt, .doc, .docx and .pdf 0.02 Linear Feet 1 folder, 0.25 in.

This collection contains materials related to Ivan M. Tribe and Jacob Bapst's research for their books on West Virginia country music performers. Materials include a book proof, Appalachian Studies Association Powerpoint presentation, Fairmont and Clarksburg Radio in Appalachian Country Music History Powerpoint presentation, and photos used in the book West Virginia's Traditional Country Music by Tribe and Bapst.

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Ivan M. Tribe and Jacob Bapst, Compilers, Records regarding West Virginia Country Music Performers, 1925/2015, bulk 1930/1960 14.22 Gigabytes 1,415 files, formats include .tif, .jpg, .ppt, .doc, .docx and .pdf 0.02 Linear Feet 1 folder, 0.25 in.

Bapst, Jacob L.

This collection contains materials related to Ivan M. Tribe and Jacob Bapst's research for their books on West Virginia country music performers. Materials include a book proof, Appalachian Studies Association Powerpoint presentation, Fairmont and Clarksburg Radio in Appalachian Country Music History Powerpoint presentation, and photos used in the book West Virginia's Traditional Country Music by Tribe and Bapst.

West Virginia and Regional History Center

Ivan M. Tribe, Collector, West Virginia Country Western Music Memorabilia, 1930/2009

26.4 Gigabytes 591 .tif files

Digital copies of photographs, song books, booklets, and other memorabilia documenting country western, bluegrass, gospel, and folk musicians and radio stations in West Virginia and neighboring states. The files represent four volumes of "West Virginia Country Western Photographs" collated by Ivan M. Tribe (author of several books on country and bluegrass music in West Virginia), as well as "Doc Williams' Border Riders Family Album" and "W-M-M-N Family Album 1941." Photographs include several behind-the-scenes and promotional images of the "Buddy Starcher Show" and the "Sleepy Jeffers Show" on WCHS-TV in Charleston, WV, several photographs of performances at the Grand Ol' Opry, and promotional portraits of "Little" Jimmy Dickens, Brad Paisley, Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper, and other local and national recording artists. This collection also contains several photos of minstrel performers in blackface.

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Ivan M. Tribe, Collector, West Virginia Country Western Music Memorabilia, 1930/2009 26.4 Gigabytes 591 .tif files

Tribe, Ivan M.

Digital copies of photographs, song books, booklets, and other memorabilia documenting country western, bluegrass, gospel, and folk musicians and radio stations in West Virginia and neighboring states. The files represent four volumes of "West Virginia Country Western Photographs" collated by Ivan M. Tribe (author of several books on country and bluegrass music in West Virginia), as well as "Doc Williams' Border Riders Family Album" and "W-M-M-N Family Album 1941." Photographs include several behind-the-scenes and promotional images of the "Buddy Starcher Show" and the "Sleepy Jeffers Show" on WCHS-TV in Charleston, WV, several photographs of performances at the Grand Ol' Opry, and promotional portraits of "Little" Jimmy Dickens, Brad Paisley, Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper, and other local and national recording artists. This collection also contains several photos of minstrel performers in blackface.

West Virginia and Regional History Center

Travis Stimeling, Music Professor, West Virginia Song Writer Oral Histories, 2014/2016

16.2 Gigabytes 64 files, formats include .docx and .wav 1.1 Linear Feet 1 ft. 1/2 in. (3 document cases, 2 1/2 in. each); (1 document case, 5 in.)

Oral history interviews with West Virginia song writers, including sound recordings of the interviews and the corresponding transcripts. Travis Stimeling was the interviewer. This material was the basis for Stimeling's book "Songwriting in Contemporary West Virginia" published by the West Virginia University Press in 2018. The interviewees are songwriters who have lived and/or worked in West Virginia for a significant portion of their lives, and who have local, regional, national, and international audiences.

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Travis Stimeling, Music Professor, West Virginia Song Writer Oral Histories, 2014/2016 16.2 Gigabytes 64 files, formats include .docx and .wav 1.1 Linear Feet 1 ft. 1/2 in. (3 document cases, 2 1/2 in. each); (1 document case, 5 in.)

Stimeling, Travis D.

Oral history interviews with West Virginia song writers, including sound recordings of the interviews and the corresponding transcripts. Travis Stimeling was the interviewer. This material was the basis for Stimeling's book "Songwriting in Contemporary West Virginia" published by the West Virginia University Press in 2018. The interviewees are songwriters who have lived and/or worked in West Virginia for a significant portion of their lives, and who have local, regional, national, and international audiences.

West Virginia and Regional History Center

West Virginia Country and Western Music Memorabilia, 1908/1960

0.7 Linear Feet 7 1/2 in. (1 document case, 2 1/2 in.); (1 document case, 5 in.); (1 folder)
Memorabilia regarding the musicians and music of the country and western music show "Jamboree" broadcast by Wheeling, West Virginia radio station WWVA. Includes eight song or history books, two song sheets, and thirteen photographs of the musicians who performed at the "Jamboree." Among the performers represented are Mack Jeffers' Fiddlin' Farmers, Jake Taylor and his Rail Splitters, Joe Barker's Radio Circus, Cowboy Loye, Grandpa Jones, Curley Miller and his Ploughboys, as well as West Virginians Doc Williams and his Border Riders, Big Slim "Lone Cowboy," and Frank Dudgeon. Also includes addenda that feature additional memorabilia regarding the country and western musicians who performed on radio stations WWVA (Wheeling, W.Va.) and WMMN (Fairmont, W.Va.).
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West Virginia Country and Western Music Memorabilia, 1908/1960 0.7 Linear Feet 7 1/2 in. (1 document case, 2 1/2 in.); (1 document case, 5 in.); (1 folder)

Memorabilia regarding the musicians and music of the country and western music show "Jamboree" broadcast by Wheeling, West Virginia radio station WWVA. Includes eight song or history books, two song sheets, and thirteen photographs of the musicians who performed at the "Jamboree." Among the performers represented are Mack Jeffers' Fiddlin' Farmers, Jake Taylor and his Rail Splitters, Joe Barker's Radio Circus, Cowboy Loye, Grandpa Jones, Curley Miller and his Ploughboys, as well as West Virginians Doc Williams and his Border Riders, Big Slim "Lone Cowboy," and Frank Dudgeon. Also includes addenda that feature additional memorabilia regarding the country and western musicians who performed on radio stations WWVA (Wheeling, W.Va.) and WMMN (Fairmont, W.Va.).

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