Our Collectors

Since FRC started in 2004, we have made available the recordings of many collectors of traditional music. To date these include (with CDs they contributed to):

Ray Alden

  • Obray Ramsey & Byard Ray
  • Shelor-Blackard Family
  • Virgil Anderson
  • Clyde Davenport
  • Clyde & Ralph Troxell
  • Ray’s Dream
  • The Balfa Brothers & Nathan Abshire
  • Indian Creek Delta Boys
  • Round Peak
  • Hurricane Ridgerunners
  • Horse Flies
  • Jeff Goehring
  • John Ashby
  • Esker Hutchins
  • Dan Tate
  • Kimble & Wagoner Families
  • Lee Sexton & Family
  • Buddy Thomas
  • Band in Transition
  • Fred Cockerham

Joseph Armiger

  • Albert Hash

Augusta Heritage Center

  • Albert Hash

Harry Bolick

  • Leake County String Band
  • Alvis Massengale

Jack Bond

  • Dennis McGee & Sady Courville

Brandywine Friends of Old-Time Music

  • Lowe Stokes
  • The Dixie Hummingbirds & the Little Wonders
  • Dewey Balfa
  • Simon St. Pierre
  • Kilby Snow
  • Ernie Carpenter
  • Ola Belle Reed
  • Old-Time Music from Clay & Calhoun Counties, WV
  • Roan Mountain Hilltoppers

Paul Brown

  • Parley Parsons

Andy Cahan

  • Parley Parsons
  • Jont Blevins
  • Walter Raleigh Babson
  • Galax Gems
  • Norman Edmonds & the Old Timers

Ashley Carder & Vernon Riddle

  • Vernon Riddle

Tom Carter

  • Gaither Carlton
  • John Rector
  • Jont Blevins

John Cohen

  • Gary Davis
  • John Summers
  • Berkeley in the 1960s
  • Banjo Bill Cornett

Dewey Cole

  • Calvin Cole

Fred Coon

  • Aunt Jenny Wilson
  • Franklin George

Hillary Dirlam

  • Jerry Lundy

Flurry Dove

  • Jont Blevins

Brendan Doyle

  • Vesta Johnson
  • Hurricane Ridgerunners

Jerry Epstein

  • Tommy Jarrell

Wayne Erbsen

  • Jim Shumate

Dan & Cristy Foster

  • Teodar Jackson
  • T. Bell

Jerry Gallaher

  • Hurricane Ridgerunners

Jeff Goehring

  • Arnold Sharp
  • John Hannah
  • Cecil Plum
  • Lonnie Seymour
  • Ward Jarvis
  • Jimmy Wheeler

Mary Greene

  • Ora Watson

Cecil Gurganus

  • Ora Watson

John Harrod

  • Kentucky Fiddlers Home Recordings
  • Along the Ohio’s Shores
  • Darley Fulks
  • Carlton Rawlings

Wayne & Max Henderson

  • Albert Hash

Heritage Records

  • Harold Hausenfluck

Carol Holcomb

  • Heywood Blevins

Peter Hoover

  • Calvin Cole
  • Addie Leffew & Claude Wolfenbarger
  • Heywood Blevins
  • Wade Ward
  • Dan Tate
  • Byard Ray, Manco Sneed & Mike Rogers
  • Sidna & Fulton Myers
  • Santford Kelly
  • Marcus Martin
  • Uncle Charlie Hhiggins, Wade Ward & Dale Poe
  • Hot Mud Family
  • Fiddlin’ Van Kidwell

Wayne Howard

  • Maggie (Hammons) Parker
  • Sherman Hammons

Paul Katopish

  • Hurricane Ridgerunners

Joe LaRose

  • Rector Hicks

Brad Leftwich & Linda Higginbotham

  • John Dee Kennedy
  • Tom Fuller
  • Lee Stoneking

James Leva

  • Renegades

Jerry Lundy

  • Jerry Lundy

George Lyon

  • Teodar Jackson

Reed Martin

  • Dock Boggs

Gus Meade

  • Alvis Massengale

Harold Dean Miller

  • Howard Miller

Bruce Molsky, James Leva, David & Mary Winston, & Dave Grant

  • Hellbenders

Nee Ningy Band

  • Nee Ningy Band

Jim Nelson

  • K. Silvey
  • Bob Holt

Blanton Owen

  • John Rector
  • Jont Blevins
  • Heywood Blevins

Bill Owens

  • Texas Fiddle Bands

Tary Owens

  • Teodar Jackson

Lucas Pasley

  • Old-Time Banjo Music of Alleghany County, NC
  • Old-Time Fiddle Music of Alleghany County, NC
  • Fred McBride

Vernon Riddle

  • Vernon Riddle

Ralph Rinzler

  • Alvis Massengale

Wilson Roberts

  • Dock Boggs

Ivy Sheppard

  • Early Upchurch

Jerry Smith

  • Dean Sturgill

Betty Seymour

  • Ross County Farmers

Chirps Smith

  • Chirps Smith

Spencer Family

  • Albert Hash
  • Jont Blevins

Kilby Spencer

  • Dean Sturgill
  • Albert Hash
  • Corbett Stamper

Tricia Spencer

  • Vernon Spencer

Dave Spilkia

  • Shelor-Blackard Family
  • Balfa Brothers & Nathan Abshire
  • Buddy Thomas

Al Tharp

  • Plank Road String Band

Bob White

  • Ralph Whited

Mark Wilson

  • Along the Ohio’s Shores

Bob Winans

  • Dink Roberts

Marshall Wyatt

  • Howard Miller

Marynell Young

  • Texas Fiddle Bands