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Banjo workshop by Morgan Sexton at Seedtime on the Cumberland 1989

Banjo workshop at Seedtime on the Cumberland. Morgan Sexton tells stories about ground hog skin a...

Seedtime on the Cumberland Festival Collection

A group of children singing Way Down Yonder in a Pawpaw Patch, Down by the Station, Cornstalk Fid...

Audiovisual items - Kingdom Come School

Children playing and screaming outside, a group of people singing, Brer Fox stories. This raw rec...

Audiovisual items - Kingdom Come School

Nimrod Workman tells stories about his dogs; sings "Ground Hog." This raw recording was created i...

Nimrod Workman: To Fit My Own Category materials, c.1975

Musician practicing the opening song for Kingdom Come School. This raw recording was created in p...

Audiovisual items - Kingdom Come School
Footage of Alison Krauss greeting fans; Performance by Hazel Dickens Band at Festival of the Bluegrass 1994

June 11 1994 - Alison Krauss meeting fans and signing autographs at Festival of the Bluegrass in ...

Hazel Dickens: It's Hard to Tell the Singer from the Song materials, c.2001
Footage of Hazel Dickens greeting fans after concert at Clintwood, Virginia 1994

June 12, 1994: Hazel Dickens meeting fans and talking to a group of people after her concert at C...

Hazel Dickens: It's Hard to Tell the Singer from the Song materials, c.2001
Footage of Morgan and Virgie Sexton in the kitchen, discussion of Morgan's music, Hattie Sexton

Morgan Sexton and Virgie Sexton working in a kitchen. Morgan discusses where he learned his songs...

Morgan Sexton: Banjo Player from Bull Creek materials, c.1991
Headwaters: Bybee Pottery; Charles Engle at Dock Boggs Memorial Festival

This program contains two parts: the first is about the Bybee Pottery studio, operated by the Cor...

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984
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A group of people talking. Nimrod and Molly Workman sing a series of songs: Little Bessie, Give Y...

Nimrod Workman: To Fit My Own Category materials, c.1975
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Nimrod Workman sings songs (Going Back To Alabam and brief verses of others) and tells stories. T...

Nimrod Workman: To Fit My Own Category materials, c.1975
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Nimrod Workman sings several songs: Old Village Churchyard, Jacob's Ladder, I'll Be Ready, and Wh...

Nimrod Workman: To Fit My Own Category materials, c.1975
Interview with Hazel Dickens about collaboration between city and country people

Hazel Dickens and Mike Seeger being interviewed [by Mimi Pickering off camera] about Hazel's fami...

Hazel Dickens: It's Hard to Tell the Singer from the Song materials, c.2001
Interview with Hazel Dickens about her own songs

Hazel Dickens discussing how she wrote Working Girl Blues, Scraps from My Tables, Only the Lonely...

Hazel Dickens: It's Hard to Tell the Singer from the Song materials, c.2001
Interview with Hazel Dickens about her own songs

Hazel Dickens discusses her songs and how they fit in to the tradition, how she uses her songs to...

Hazel Dickens: It's Hard to Tell the Singer from the Song materials, c.2001
Interview with Hazel Dickens about Mike Seeger, family music

Hazel Dickens discussing meeting Mike Seeger, the importance of the old songs, songwriting, other...

Hazel Dickens: It's Hard to Tell the Singer from the Song materials, c.2001
Interview with Hazel Dickens about playing bars in Baltimore, feminism

Hazel Dickens discussing living in the city, homesickness/loneliness, alcoholism and bar hopping ...

Hazel Dickens: It's Hard to Tell the Singer from the Song materials, c.2001
Interview with Hazel Dickens and Mike Seeger about their friendship and music

Hazel Dickens and Mike Seeger being interviewed by Mimi Pickering. Mike discusses meeting Hazel a...

Hazel Dickens: It's Hard to Tell the Singer from the Song materials, c.2001
Interview with Hazel Dickens and Mike Seeger about traditional and modern music

Hazel Dickens and Mike Seeger being interviewed [by Mimi Pickering off camera]. Dickens and Seege...

Hazel Dickens: It's Hard to Tell the Singer from the Song materials, c.2001
Interview with Jean Ritchie about her life and music

Jean Ritchie discusses her family history, preservation of traditional songs, play parties and da...

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984
Interview with Morgan Sexton about aging, singing influences

Morgan Sexton discussing getting older, his health [operation], retirement, National Heritage Awa...

Morgan Sexton: Banjo Player from Bull Creek materials, c.1991
Interview with Morgan Sexton about mining and music

Morgan Sexton discussing the importance of Old Time music, his hand injury, playing the banjo, ev...

Morgan Sexton: Banjo Player from Bull Creek materials, c.1991
Interview with Sue Massek about Hazel Dickens; Performance by Hazel Dickens Band at Clintwood, Virginia 1994

June 11 1994, Festival of the Bluegrass, Lexington KY - Sue Massek discusses Hazel Dickens' influ...

Hazel Dickens: It's Hard to Tell the Singer from the Song materials, c.2001
Interview with Tillman Cadle about Communism, shooting competition

Tillman Cadle discussing mining, shooting competitions, communism. Cadle looks through photo albu...

Dreadful Memories: The Life of Sarah Ogan Gunning materials, c.1988
Interview with Tillman Cadle about Eastern KY, NYC, poverty, union politics

Tillman Cadle discussing organizing at Yancy, getting kicked out of the mine, meeting Jim Garland...

Dreadful Memories: The Life of Sarah Ogan Gunning materials, c.1988
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A man [John Jacob Niles] discussing ballads, carols, Pretty Polly.

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A man [John Jacob Niles] discussing ballads, radios in rural areas, Doris Ulmann's family [impres...

Mike Seeger, Hazel & Arnold Dickens play music in a living room in Princeton, WV

November 3, 1994 - Hazel Dickens, Arnold Dickens and Mike Seeger play in a living room at a famil...

Hazel Dickens: It's Hard to Tell the Singer from the Song materials, c.2001
Morgan Sexton and others playing tunes at Seedtime on the Cumberland 1989

Morgan Sexton, Bonnie Carr (?) and unidentified man playing music together -  Sally Goodin, Littl...

Seedtime on the Cumberland Festival Collection
Music and conversation with Mike Seeger, Hazel & Arnold Dickens at Princeton, WV

A group of musicians including Hazel Dickens, Mike Seeger, Arnold Dickens and others, in a kitche...

Hazel Dickens: It's Hard to Tell the Singer from the Song materials, c.2001
Music and interview with Morgan Sexton about family, playing alone

January 13, 1988 - Morgan Sexton plays music and is interviewed by Anne Lewis and Buck Maggard. S...

Morgan Sexton: Banjo Player from Bull Creek materials, c.1991
Music and interview with Morgan Sexton about moonshine, groundhogs

Morgan Sexton plays his banjo, plays Moonshiner, discusses how to make moonshine, why people had ...

Morgan Sexton: Banjo Player from Bull Creek materials, c.1991
Music and interview with Wade and Julia Mainer about childhood, family music

Wade and Julia Mainer interview at Seedtime on the Cumberland 1989. They discuss music from their...

Seedtime on the Cumberland Festival Collection
Music and interview with Wade and Julia Mainer about work, travel

Wade and Julia Mainer interview. Wade discusses working at General Motors, [Country Music] Hall o...

Seedtime on the Cumberland Festival Collection
Music at Nimrod Workman's 99th birthday

A large group of musicians talking and playing music. Musicians include Hazel Dickens, Nimrod Wor...

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