"The Southern Music Research Center Presents The Darwin Lee Hill Collection." Image by Hollywoody Guthrie, 2024.Collection overview:
The Darwin Lee Hill “Real Hillbilly” Interviews Collection consists of more than sixty recorded conversations with…
Photograph of Eddie Keefer and Darwin Lee Hill at radio station WHVW, Poughkeepsie, New York, April, 2000.Keefer's obituary, published in theSullivan County Democrat (Callicoon, New York, May 11, 2004),reads, in part:"Edward 'Eddie' Keefer of…
Interview with Don Helms (1927-2008), recorded by Darwin Lee Hill, March 2, 2002.
In 1943, at the age of seveneteen, steel guitarist Don Helms joined the band of an up-and-coming Hank Williams, performing dates across south Alabama as a member of…