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Jam circle, Splunge Creek Bluegrass Festival, Winston County, Alabama, 1998. Photo by Burgin Mathews.

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Jam circle, Splunge Creek Bluegrass Festival, Winston County, Alabama, 1998. Photo by Burgin Mathews.

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Banjo player, Splunge Creek Bluegrass Festival, Winston County, Alabama, 1998. Photo by Burgin Mathews.

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Happy Hal Burns (Harold Frank Byrnes) was a popular, longtime Birmingham radio personality and a mentor to many of the city’s “hillbilly” and country acts, including Hank Penny, Sidney “Hardrock” Gunter, and Gordon Edwards “Country Boy Eddie” Burns…

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Happy Hal Burns, Birmingham radio personality, “and his little dog ‘Sissy’” in a wartime promotional photo. Photo is addressed to Mrs. M. R. Daniels in Thomasville, NC, and accompanied by a form letter from Happy Hal’s sponsor, the American Snuff…

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Letter from the American Snuff Company to a fan of Birmingham’s Happy Hal Burns. (See previous image).

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Banjo player Darrell Mogran at the Woodstock, Alabama, Bluegrass Festival, November 1971, photographer unknown.

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Guitarist Junior Crowe at the Woodstock, Alabama, Bluegrass Festival, November 1971.

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Fiddler Horace Worley at the Woodstock, Alabama, Bluegrass Festival, November 1971.

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Birmingham radio personality Happy Hal Burns on his tractor, 1955.

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Aunt Bertha Robinson was born in Jackson County, Alabama, near the community of Lem Rock, in 1904; the family moved to nearby New Market when she was seven or eight years old. She picked up and adapted her distinctive two-finger picking style from a…

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Addressed to a fan at Rt. 1 in Brilliant, Alabama, the publicity postcard offers a short biography of Clements, "The Dixie Yodeler":

"Born September 6, in the hills of Central Alabama, of English and Cherokee Indian descent. Has dark brown hair…

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Muddy Water Bluegrass Fest (Sign), Weogufka, Alabama, September 14, 2019. Photo by Burgin Mathews.

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Community member tributes at Ole Rex's Pickin' Park, Henderson, Alabama. Photo by Burgin Mathews, 2022.

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Monument to Rex Locklar, "The Father of Henderson Bluegrass," at Ole Rex's Pickin' Park, Henderson, Alabama. Photo 2022 by Burgin Mathews.

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Ole Rex's Bluegrass Jamboree, Henderson, Alabama, April 9, 2022. Photo by Burgin Mathews.

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Ole Rex's Bluegrass Jamboree, Henderson, Alabama, April 9, 2022. Photo by Burgin Mathews.

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Publicity photo for Royce Green (1937-2014). Courtesy John Horton.An obituary in the [Ashtabula, OH]Star Beaconreads, in part: “Royce Hoyt Green, age 76, of Conneaut, Ohio, passed away Monday, Jan. 6, 2014. Born Dec. 22, 1937, in Birmingham, Ala., he…

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Advertisement for Mobile, Alabama's Capa Records, featuring Johnny Foster, Kitty Hawkins, and Boots Till. On January 2, 1964, the Chocktaw Advocate [Butler, AL] noted that "Capa Records was formed to give Mobilians a chance to perform and still stay…

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Promotional brochure for Dixie Records artist Bob Jones of Atalla, Alabama, circa 1964. Courtesy John Horton.

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