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Bill Monroe at Cold Springs HS (brighter).jpeg
Poster for Bill Monroe and James Monroe at Cold Springs High School, Bremen, Alabama, January 23, 1971. Sponsored by the Quarterback Club. Courtesy Herb Trotman.

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ARM 172 Mason Rivers.jpeg
Painting of Mason Rivers by Craig Legg, 2023. #172 in Craig Legg's Alabama Roots Music Trading Card Series. Courtesy Craig Legg.

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Painting of Berkeley Bob's Coffee House by Craig Legg, 2023. #147 in Craig Legg's Alabama Roots Music Trading Card Series. Courtesy Craig Legg.

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ARM 125 Speer Family.jpeg
Painting of the Speer Family by Craig Legg, 2023. #125 in Craig Legg's Alabama Roots Music Trading Card Series. Courtesy Craig Legg.

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ARM 123 Hal Smith.jpeg
Painting of Hal Smith by Craig Legg, 2023. #123 in Craig Legg's Alabama Roots Music Trading Card Series. Courtesy Craig Legg.

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ARM 74 Candi Staton.jpeg
Painting of Candi Staton by Craig Legg, 2023. #074 in Craig Legg's Alabama Roots Music Trading Card Series. Courtesy Craig Legg.

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ARM 53 Arlin Moon.jpeg
Painting of Arlin Moon by Craig Legg, 2023. #053 in Craig Legg's Alabama Roots Music Trading Card Series. Courtesy Craig Legg.

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ARM 012 Fiddlin' Tom Freeman.jpeg
Painting of Fiddlin' Tom Freeman by Craig Legg, 2023. #012 in Craig Legg's Alabama Roots Music Trading Card Series. Courtesy Craig Legg.

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Newspaper advertisement for Fess Whatley's Sax-o-Society Orchestra at Cullman, Alabama's annual Roosevelt Birthday Ball, a benefit combatting infant paralysis.Cullman Tribune, January 28, 1937.

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Autographed promotional photo for Polly Christian, recording artist for Cullman, Alabama's Three Star record label. Courtesy John Horton.

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Governor “Big Jim” Folsom, with his wife Jamelle and his 1962 campaign band, the Meat Grinders.

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Governor “Big Jim” Folsom’s Strawberry Pickers at Birmingham radio station WTNB, c. 1947.

Folsom promised the members of his campaign band that he would provide them all jobs with the State of Alabama, if he was elected. Following Folsom's 1947…

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Gubernatorial candidate James E. “Big Jim” Folsom on the campaign trail with his Strawberry Pickers, c. 1946. The larger-than-life, two-time Populist governor made rural string-band music central to his folksy image, barnstorming the state with the…

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