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Stanley Hicks plays banjo while Ricky Presnell buck dances at Jack Guy' store. Introduction by Jack Guy.Notes on original reel box: “This recording special for: Jack Guy / Recorded at Guy's Folk Toys and Home Industries 7 August 1970 ... Recording by…

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Stanley Hicks (banjo) and Tedrey Harmon (dulcimer) perform at Jack Guy's store.Notes on original reel box: “This recording special for: Jack Guy / Recorded at Guy's Folk Toys and Home Industries 7 August 1970 ... Recording by Robert T. McCay, New…

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Stanley Hicks (banjo) and Tedrey Harmon (dulcimer) perform at Jack Guy's store. After losing part of a finger in a carpentry accident while building a dulcimer, Hicks adapted his banjo style to the absence of a digit, and continued to play; he…

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Stanley Hicks (banjo) and Tedrey Harmon (dulcimer) perform at Jack Guy's store; Ricky Presnell buck dances. Introduction by Jack Guy.Notes on original reel box: “This recording special for: Jack Guy / Recorded at Guy's Folk Toys and Home Industries 7…

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Bassist Cleveland "Cleve" Eaton in Chicago, 1974.

Born in Fairfield, Alabama, Cleve Eaton (1934-2020) moved to Chicago in 1960, becoming an active figure in the city's jazz scene. In 1964 he joined the Ramsey Lewis Trio, performing for ten years…

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Publicity photo for Mary Alice McCall for Cleve Eaton's CleAnThair record label. In the early 1970s, Eaton produced three soul and funk singles by McCall:

"Wade in the Water" / "Blessed Assurance"
"I'm Moving Home" "Save the Tears and…

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Promotional photo for the Soul Controllers on Cleve Eaton's CleAnThair record label. Members of the Soul Controllers (originally founded in 1965 as the Epics) were students at Fairfield High School when they recorded their first single, "Right On,…

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Rabe Perkins Sings. 1972 songbook, Birmingham, Alabama.In the 1940s and '50s, the duo Rebe and Rabe -- Revin "Rebe" Gosdin and Auburn J. C. "Rabe" Perkins -- established themselves as popular fixtures of Birmingham, Alabama, radio station WVOK.…

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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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Big Freada Wallace, a mainstay of the Birmingham nightclub scene, at the piano with Birmingham Mayor George Seibels, City Hall Christmas party, December 1974.

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Frank Adams, 1978

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