See Texas Fiddle Bands (FRC409) and P.T. Bell (FRC410) From various sources William A. Owens, a Folklorist, Author and Professor, Dies at 85 By Joan Cook Published: December 12, 1990 William A. Owens, a folklorist and author who taught at Columbia University for 28 years, died on Saturday [Dec. 1990] at the Ramapo Manor Nursing […]
See John Summers (FRC310) and John Summers (article) By Rev. John K. Summers How do you go about writing about a “master” of his profession? My father was not only a perfect farmer, but without a doubt, the finest interpreter of Irish jigs and reels and old Scottish schottisches via the violin. He was self-trained, […]
New CD: Eunice McAlexander, Ballad Singer – FRC739 This album features the singing of Eunice Yeatts McAlexander (1909-1990), of Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia. I recorded Eunice in the spring of 1974 but was not the first or last to visit her. Folklorist Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. collected songs from Eunice in 1932 and […]
FRC112 by Ray Alden Jesse Shelor (born December, 1894) was the youngest boy of the fourteen children of Reverend William Ellis Shelor. Even though all of Jesse’s brothers played fiddle or banjo, it was not their influence, but rather a more startling event that started ten year old Jesse fiddling. One day Jesse’s father came […]