Collections

Recordings of the Augusta Fiddle Contest, 1986. Featured performers include Jim Bryner, Wilson Douglas, Uncle Charlie Osborne, A. Cahan, A. Gelland, Ernie Carpenter and Alice Gerrard.

Recordings of the radio program, Back Porch Music Time, produced by Community Cultural Services in Moatsville, WV.

Recordings of The Gospel Lights of St. Paul's African Methodist Episcopal Church in Concert, Morgantown, WV, July 25, 1976. A concert program including a full song list is available in the collection's control folder.

Collection consists of duplicate copies of disc and tape recordings which Dr. Reece made during the course of his doctoral studies from 1949 to 1953. Nearly all forms of folksong found in southern West Virginia are represented. Reece's dissertation provides an excellent source of information pertaining to both informants and songs. Additional information on the songs can be found in the collection's control folder.

Recordings of the Helvetia Men's Chorus:

7 in. 7.5 ips reel to reel tape recording of Dorothy Clutter Collison and Ernest Skaggs singing traditional ballads at the Hillbilly booth, West Virginia State Fair, August 1961.

Performers include Florena Evans Duling, Robert Clinton Propst, Blaine Likins, Israel Welch, and Arlie Cosner.

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.

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.

Assorted folk music recordings from the late 1970s to the early 1980s, featuring the following performers: