Regional Music Collection
Scope and Content
19 boxes, 9 linear ft.
The Regional Music Collection documents the musical folklife and history of country, gospel, bluegrass and other styles of grassroots music in Carroll County, Georgia and the surrounding area. The bulk of the collection is composed of fieldwork and research materials collected from 2000-2002 by the Center's music curator, Mick Buck, in preparing his master's thesis project in Public History. Included are audio and video recordings on a variety of formats, photographs, oral history interviews, fan mail, correspondence, song lists and lyrics, articles, newspaper clippings, and concert posters and flyers. Among the audio recordings preserved in the collection are many hours of commercially unreleased radio and home recordings on 1/4" reel-to-reel tapes, audiocassettes, and 78-RPM acetate discs dating to 1946 by musicians and groups such as Alton Stitcher, Uncle John Patterson, the Storey Sisters, Joe Tyson, the Bluegrass Five, the Georgia Playboys, the Radio Homefolks, the Blue Bonnet Boys, and Charles Cole and his Southern Kinfolks. It also includes very rare commercially released recordings by the Willing Workers, the Heavenly Gospels, the Holmes Family, the Allen Quartette, the Carroll County Revelers, and others, dating to 1927. Buck and other UWG students also conducted twenty-three interviews with local musicians, former radio announcers, and other community members with direct connections to regional music history. In addition, the collection incorporates Buck's research materials on Carrollton radio station WLBB and includes audio recordings of radio programs from 1947-1962. With funding from the Georgia Council for the Arts and the Georgia Humanities Council, the Center for Public History's two CD releases, "Everybody's Tuned to the Radio: Rural Music Traditions in West Georgia, 1947-1979" and "I Hear a Sweet Voice Calling" by Alton Stitcher were compiled from and supported by the collection. The collection is ongoing, with interviews, audio and video recordings, photographs, and other materials being continuously added. Researchers may come to the Center for Public History to listen to and research the recordings. The staff will assist researchers with their requests and provide a listening station with audio equipment and headphones.
Organization and Arrangement
The collection is organized according to type of materials. Boxes 1-2 contain file folders for each artist or group documented by the collection. These folders are arranged in alphabetical order according to the name of the group or the last name of the artist. Folders containing transcripts or other interview materials are also labeled with the date of the interview. When there is more than one interview with a particular artist, these files are arranged chronologically according to the date of the interview. Each folder contains photographs, interview transcripts, newspaper clippings, or other information about the particular group or artist. Boxes 3-13 contain audio or video recordings of musical performances, oral history interviews, and radio programs. Audio/visual materials are organized in boxes according to format and size and include 78-RPM acetate discs, LPs, 45-RPM discs, ¼” reel-to-reel audiotapes, audiocassettes, CDs, videocassettes, and DVDs. Materials in each box are arranged in alphabetical order according to the name of the group or the last name of the artist or interviewee. When there is more than one interview with a particular individual, audiocassettes are arranged chronologically according to the date of the interview. Separate A/V materials consist of three 10-inch reels of ¼” audiotape containing preservation copies of acetate discs. Box 14 contains discs of scanned photos. Boxes 15-16 contain file folders for the Center for Public History’s music projects and include photographs, grant proposals, mechanical licenses, correspondence, and other documents. Folders are arranged alphabetically, according to subject or project title. Box 17 contains oversized materials, such as concert posters and newspapers.
Box and Folder List
Box 1: Artists
Because the collection is ongoing, individual folders are not numbered
- Akers, Eugene
- Akers Trio/Radio Homefolks
- Allen Quartette
- Baxter, Jane
- Blanton, Lamar [3 Dec 2001]
- Blue Bonnet Boys
- Baxter, J.N. & Onie
- Baxter, J.N. & Onie [19 Nov 2001]
- Bray, Hiram [16 Feb 2001]
- Camp, Sidney
- Chesnut, Gwyn [20 Nov 2001]
- Charles Cole and his Southern Kinfolks
- Cooper, Edna/Cooper Trio [20 Feb 2002]
- Cooper, Elizabeth
- Craven Twins
- Defoor, N.J.
- Doodle Thrower and his Blue Grass Band
- Dorsey, Thomas
- Durrough, Clyde [15 Mar 2002]
- Jim Embry
- Entrekin, Ben
- Farmer, Willie Roy [12 Feb 2002]
- Fuller, M.T. [19 Nov 2001]
- Georgia Playboys
- Gilley, C.H. [31 Nov 2001]
- Gray, A.A. (Ahaz)
- Green, Bob [6 Jul 2001]
- Heavenly Gospels
- Hesterlee, Reeves and Jerry [12 Aug 2001]
Box 2: Artists
- Holmes, Newt & Louise/Holmes Family
- Jones, Red
- Kendrix, Wille [27 Nov 2001]
- Marshall, Faye [9 Jul 2002]
- Marshall Hannah and his Deputies
- Mathis Brothers, Aldean and Felton
- Parkman, Stanley [18 Sept 2001]
- Patterson, James [24 Jan 2001]
- Patterson, Uncle John
- Ray, Marilyn Bledsoe [30 Nov 2001]
- Rogers, Lonnie [5 Mar 2002]
- Sacred Harp
- Sewell Gospel Quartet
- Shady Valley Four
- Snow, W.J.
- Stallings, Tracy [22 Jan 2002]
- Stitcher, Alton
- Stitcher, Alton [5 Jul 2001]
- Stitcher, Alton [6 Oct 2001]
- Stitcher, Alton [18 Aug 2003]
- Storey, Nellie [1 Nov 2000]
- Storey, Nellie [25 June 2001]
- Storey Sisters
- Tyson, Joe “Red”
- United Voices Gospel Choir
- Variety Gang
- Vaughn, Charlie
- The Velvetones
- Vines, Clarence
- Watson, James
- Williams, Gladys [24 Apr 2002]
- Willing Workers
- Woodruff, B.L.
- Yates, Comer
- Yates, Comer
Boxes 3-6: Not Available at this time
List of Audio/Visual Materials
Audiocassettes, Oral History Interviews: Box 1:
- Baxter, Onie, 11/19/01, Tape 1
- Blanton, Lamar, 12/3/01, Tape 1
- Bray, Hiram, 2/16/01, Tape 1 of 2
- Bray, Hiram, 2/16/01, Tape 2 of 2
- Chesnut, Gwyn, 11/20/01, Tape 1 of 1
- Craven Twins & Alton Stitcher, 10/12/01, Tape 1 of 1
- Embry, Letha, 2/8/02, Tape 1 of 1
- Farmer, Willie Roy, 2/12/02, Tape 1 of 1
- Fuller, M.T., 11/19/01, Tape 1 of 1
- Gilley, C.H., 11/30/01, Tape 1 of 1
- Green, Bob, 7/6/01, Tape 1 of 2
- Green, Bob, 7/6/01, Tape 2 of 2
- Hesterlee, Jerry, 8/1/01, Tape 1 of 1
- Holmes, Louise, 2/16/02, Tape 1 of 1
- Kendrix, Willie, 11/27/01, Tape 1 of 1
- Marshall, Faye, 7/29/02, Tape 1 of 1
- Parkman, Stanley, 9/18/01, Tape 1 of 2
- Parkman, Stanley, 9/18/01, Tape 2 of 2
Audiocassettes, Oral History Interviews: Box 2
- Patterson, James, 1/24/01, Tape 1 of 1
- Ray, Marilyn Bledsoe, 11/30/0, Tape 1 of 1
- Rogers, Lonnie, 3/5/02, Tape 1 of 2
- Snow, W.J., 8/5/01, Tape 1 of 2
- Snow, W.J., 8/5/01, Tape 2 of 2
- Stallings, Tracy, 1/22/02, Tape 1 of 1
- Stitcher, Alton, 7/5/01, Tape 1 of 1
- Stitcher, Alton, 10/6/01, Tape 1 of 2
- Stitcher, Alton, 10/6/01, Tape 2 of 2
- Stitcher, Alton, 8/5/03, Tape 1 of 1
- Stitcher, Alton, 8/18/03, Tape 1 of 1
- Storey, Nellie, 11/01/00, Tape 1 of 2
- Storey, Nellie, 11/01/00, Tape 2 of 2
- Storey, Nellie, 6/25/01, Tape 1 of 1
- Tyson, Ethyleen and Ted, 8/4/01, Tape 1 of 1
- Vaughn, Charlie, 4/25/02, Tape 1 of 1
- Vines, Clarence, 1/23/01, Tape 1 of 1
- Watson, James, 3/1/02, Tape 1 of 1,
Audiocassettes, Oral History Interviews; Musical Performances: Box 3
- Williams, Gladys, 4/24/02, Tape 1 of 1
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Yates, Comer, 11/15/01, Tape 1 of 1
RMC.CS.1 Akers Trio / Radio Homefolks
RMC.CS.2 Akers Trio Square Dance Music/Alton Stitcher home recordings/Marshall
Hannah Show, WLBB, w/Alton Stitcher
RMC.CS.3 Blue Bonnet Boys, Reunion Concert, 9/22/79
RMC.CS.4a Blue Bonnet Boys, Reunion Show, 10/2/93, Tape 1 of 2
RMC.CS.4b Blue Bonnet Boys, Reunion Show, 10/2/93, Tape 2 of 2
RMC.CS.5 Blue Bonnet Boys/ Charles Cole, Rayford Akers, Eugene Akers, Faye Nell
Akers / Georgia Playboys
RMC.CS.6 Bluegrass Five, Live at Cobb County Festival, mid-1960s
RMC.CS.7 Bluegrass Five, Live at “Georgia’s Best Bluegrass Festival” Marietta, GA
RMC.CS.8 The Holmes Family, Memorial—“Inside the Pearly Gates”
RMC.CS.9 The Holmes Family & Helen Jenkins, "See You in a Little While"
RMC.CS.10 The Holmes Family
RMC.CS.11 Bradley Kincaid
RMC.CS.12 Maumina and Pam/ Bear Creek Church Singing
RMC.CS.13 W.J. Snow
RMC.CS.14 Southern Kinfolks, WLBB acetates, 1947
RMC.CS.15 Alton Stitcher, Home Recordings, ca. 1980s
RMC.CS.16 Alton Stitcher, More Home Recordings
RMC.CS.17 Alton Stitcher, Home Recordings/Velvetones acetates
RMC.CS.18 Alton Stitcher, “Old Love Letters”
RMC.CS.19 Alton Stitcher & Mick Buck, Appalachian Trails program, WUWG,
11/19/02
RMC.CS.20a Alton Stitcher, Rehearsals, Jan. 2003, home of Russell McClanahan,
Rome, GA, Tape 1 of 2
RMC.CS.20b Alton Stitcher, Rehearsals, Jan. 2003, home of Russell McClanahan,
Rome, GA, Tape 2 of 2
RMC.CS.21 Arlin B. Stitcher, “Our Soon Coming King”/Marshall & Pearl Hannah
RMC.CS.22 Sacred Harp Singing
RMC.CS.23 Storey Sisters, Home Recordings
RMC.CS.24 Storey Sisters, Home Recordings, “Down Yonder” & “Ragtime Annie”
RMC.CS.25 Storey Sisters, Home Recordings, DAT copy
RMC.CS.26 Storey Sisters, Home Recordings w/Charles Cole, Jimmy Dyer
Audiocassettes, Musical Performances/Radio Programs: Box 4
RMC.CS.27 Jack Shirah, Joe Will McGuire, Rayford & Eugene Akers, Home
Recordings
RMC.CS.28 Joe “Red Tyson and Jim Embry/Uncle John Patterson, James Patterson,
Jack Shirah, live at WLBB/Uncle John Patterson, James Patterson, Ben
Entrekin, live in Carrollton, 1970s
RMC.CS.29 Joe Tyson’s Farmhands, WLBB acetates, 1949/ Uncle John Patterson and
Friends
RMC.CS.30 Watusi Rodeo
RMC.CS.31 The Willing Workers, He’s Everything I Need (sealed)
RMC.CS.32 The Willing Workers, He’s Everything I Need
RMC.CS.33 Bob Green and Hiram Bray, “Cuttin’ Up,” WLBB program
RMC.CS.34 WLBB promo by Webb Pierce/various WLBB spots/”Town and Country
Show”
RMC.CS.35 “WLBB Mother of the Year” program, 1955
RMC.CS.36 WLBB Programs, “Round Table Forum on the Air,” 2/27/1949/“The
Gospel Hour,” 12/3/1948
RMC.CS.37 “1984 Ole Time Fiddler’s & Bluegrass Festival, Vol. 15”
RMC.CS.38 Preservation Transfers from 78rpm acetates, Tape 1
RMC.CS.39 Preservation Transfers from 78rpm acetates, Tape 2
RMC.CS.40 Preservation Transfers from 78rpm acetates, Tape 3
Reel-to Reel Audiotapes
RMC.RR.1 Alton Stitcher, Home Recordings, Reel 1
RMC.RR.2 Alton Stitcher, Home Recordings, Reel 2
RMC.RR.3 Storey Sisters, Home Recordings,“Storey Sisters Singing Southern Moon
with Yodeling, 1948”
RMC.RR.4 Storey Sisters, Home Recordings, 1958
RMC.RR.5 Storey Sisters, Soundcraft Magnetic Tape, Reel 1
RMC.RR.6 Storey Sisters, Soundcraft Magnetic Tape, Reel 2
RMC.RR.7 Storey Sisters, Silvertone Standard Tape, Reel 1
RMC.RR.8 Storey Sisters, Silvertone Standard Tape, Reel 2
RMC.RR.9 Storey Sisters (Nellie Storey, guitar; Rhoda Storey, fiddle; Delma
Huckaba, bass, fiddle, 1954)
RMC.RR.10 Storey Sisters, Scotch Sound Recording Tape, Unlabeled
Acetate Discs
RMC.AC.1 Charles Cole & His Southern Kinfolks, “Mother’s Not Dead / Stay All
Night / Tragic Romance”
RMC.AC.2 Charles Cole & His Southern Kinfolks, “Theme Song / Phillipino Baby /
Bile Them Cabbage Down / Instrumental”
RMC.AC.3 Charles Cole & His Southern Kinfolks, “Steel Guitar Rag / Ragtime Annie
South / Down Yonder”
RMC.AC.4 Charles Cole & His Southern Kinfolks, “Southern Moon / Give Me the
Roses / Unidentified / Hillbilly Boogie”
RMC.AC.5 Charles Cole & His Southern Kinfolks, “As Long as I Live / Chinese
Breakdown / K.C. Railroad Blues”
RMC.AC.6 J.N. & Onie Baxter / Joe Will McGuire, Home Recordings, 1956
RMC.AC.7 Gwyndolyn Brown, “Under the Double Eagle”
RMC.AC.8 Georgia Playboys, “I Can’t Trust You Now / I Don’t Blame You / I’ll
Have a New Life / Where Could I Go”
RMC.AC.9 Georgia Playboys, “I Wonder Where You Are Tonight / Fiddle Tune/
Mandolin Tune / Bury Me Beneath the Weeping Willow”
RMC.AC.10 Georgia Playboys, “I Talk to Myself / Footprints in the Snow / steel guitar
instrumental / mandolin instrumental”
LPs
RMC.LP.1 Uncle John Patterson, “Plains Georgia, Rock,” Arhoolie 5018
RMC.LP.2 The Holmes Family, “The Holmes’ Singing at Home”
RMC.LP.3 The Holmes Family, “The Eastern Gate”
RMC.LP.4 Arlin B. Stitcher and Family, "Our Soon Coming King"
45-rpm Records
RMC.45.1 Heavenly Gospels, “Run in Vain/ Near the Cross”
RMC.45.2 Holmes Family, “The Day of Wrath / Mercy Door/Don’t Let Me Cross
Over (Sin’s Cheating Line) / What a Friend (instrumental)”
RMC.45.3 Holmes Family, “Hide Not Your Candle/Almost Home”
RMC.45.4 W.J. Snow / Krazy Kuntry Snow and Crawford, “The Heard County Song/
Lonesome Road Blues”
CDR: Box 1
RMC.CD.2 Allen Quartette, 1927
RMC.CD.3 J.N. & Onie Baxter, Home Recordings, 1956, Disc 1
RMC.CD.4 J.N. & Onie Baxter, Home Recordings, 1956, Disc 2
RMC.CD.5 J.N. & Onie Baxter, Home Recordings, 1956, Disc 3
RMC.CD.6 J.N. & Onie Baxter, “Reel-to-Reel”, Disc 1
RMC.CD.7 J.N. & Onie Baxter, “Reel-to-Reel”, Disc 2
RMC.CD.8 J.N. & Onie Baxter, “Baxter 1956”
RMC.CD.9 Bill and Juanita Belk
RMC.CD.10 Blue Bonnet Boys / W.J. Snow, Rehearsals for 1979 Reunion
RMC.CD.11 Blue Bonnet Boys/W.J. Snow/Akers Trio
RMC.CD.37 Bowdon Ho! Downers
RMC.CD.12 James Bryan, “The First of May”
RMC.CD.13 James Bryan and Carl Jones, “Two Pictures”
RMC.CD.14 Bullsboro, “Bullsboro Bluegrass Band”
RMC.CD.32 Michael Butler, "Alone in the Lair/Southern Gospel Hour"
RMC.CD.33 Charles Cole and His Southern Kinfolks, "Live at WLBB, 1947"
RMC.CD.15 Jim Embry and N.J. Defoor, Home Recordings, 1979
RMC.CD.34 Georgia Playboys, "Acetates, 1946"
RMC.CD.17 The Gospel Servers, “Because He Loved Me”
RMC.CD.18a Reeves Hesterlee, “The Music of Reeves Hesterlee”
RMC.CD.18b Reeves Hesterlee, “RM Hesterlee Dance Band 1954-55”
RMC.CD.19 The Holmes Family, “The Holmes Singing at Home”
RMC.CD.35 John Johnson, "Strange Creek Fiddling"
RMC.CD.36 Magnolia, "Dollhouse Demo"
RMC.CD.20 Faye Marshall, “Sings Praises to the Lord”
CDR Box 2
RMC.CD.24 Alton Stitcher and Angela Tyson
RMC.CD.25 Alton Stitcher, Home Recordings, Vol. 1
RMC.CD.26 Alton Stitcher, Home Recordings, Vol. 2
RMC.CD.32a Alton Stitcher and Friends Concert 1/31/04, Disc 1
RMC.CD.32b Alton Stitcher and Friends Concert 1/31/04, Disc 2
RMC.CD.27 Storey Sisters, Home Recordings
RMC.CD.28 Variety Gang, “WLBB 1948”
RMC.CD.29a Various Artists, “Everybody’s Tuned….Live” 3/9/03, Disc 1
RMC.CD.29b Various Artists, “Everybody’s Tuned….Live” 3/9/03, Disc 2
RMC.CD.29c Various Artists, “Everybody’s Tuned….Live” 3/9/03, Disc 3
RMC.CD.30a Various Artists, “Everybody’s Tuned….Live” 3/7/03, Disc 1
RMC.CD.30b Various Artists, “Everybody’s Tuned….Live” 3/7/03, Disc 2
RMC.CD.30c Various Artists, “Everybody’s Tuned….Live” 3/7/03, Disc 3
CDR: Box 3
RMC.CD.31 Curtis Whitman, “Body and Soul”
RMC.CD.32 Willing Workers "He's Everything I Need"
RMC.CD.1a "American Routes with Nick Spitzer”: “Radio Memories” Disc 1
RMC.CD.1b “American Routes with Nick Spitzer”: “Radio Memories” Disc 2
RMC.CD.16 "Georgia Stringbands—Volume 1"
RMC.CD.42 "Georgia Folk: A Sampler of Traditional Sounds"
RMC.CD.43 Various Artists, "Everybody's Tuned to the Radio: Rural Music Traditions in West Georgia, 1947-1979"
RMC.CD.29a Various Artists, “Everybody’s Tuned….Live” 3/9/03, Disc 1
RMC.CD.29b Various Artists, “Everybody’s Tuned….Live” 3/9/03, Disc 2
RMC.CD.29c Various Artists, “Everybody’s Tuned….Live” 3/9/03, Disc 3
RMC.CD.30a Various Artists, “Everybody’s Tuned….Live” 3/7/03, Disc 1
RMC.CD.30b Various Artists, “Everybody’s Tuned….Live” 3/7/03, Disc 2
RMC.CD.30c Various Artists, “Everybody’s Tuned….Live” 3/7/03, Disc 3
CDR: Box 4
Scanned Images on CD and floppy disk
Videotape & DVD
RMC.DVD.1a "Everybody's Tuned to the Radio: A Live Concert," 3/9/03, Disc One
RMC.DVD.1b "Everybody's Tuned to the Radio: A Live Concert," 3/9/03, Disc Two
RMC.VC.1 Hiram Bray, 3/27/01
RMC.VC.2 Charlie Cole, Rayford Akers, Gene Akers
RMC.VC.3 Newt and Louise Holmes and the Holmes Family in Concert from the
Hollonville Opry House
RMC.VC.4 Jonesville Middle School Concert, 4/01/03
RMC.VC.5 Bill Monroe
RMC.VC.6 Alton Stitcher and the Craven Twins, 10/12/01
RMC.VC.6 Tanner
RMC.VC.7 "Everybody's Tuned to the Radio: A Live Concert," 3/9/03
RMC.VC.8 “Alton Stitcher and Friends” Concert, 1/31/04
Search terms/Key words
music, radio; WLBB; bluegrass; gospel; sacred harp; singing; country music; hillbilly music; guitar; fiddle; mandolin; banjo; announcer; square dance; hymns; quartets; entertainment
Creator of Finding Aid: Nikki Patterson, Graduate Assistant, and Mick Buck, Music Curator, spring 2004
