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Hurtsboro High School Marching Band, 1989
Hurtsboro High School marching band, Hurtsboro Christmas Parade, Main Street, Hurtsboro, Alabama. Press photo by Joe Maher, 1989.
Sun Ra at City Stages, 1989
Herman "Sonny" Blount left his earthly home of Birmingham in 1946 for a long and influential career as Sun Ra; in 1989, he returned to the "Magic City" for the first annual City Stages music festival. At the festival's opening "Street Strut" parade,…
Flyer: Coup D'Etat and Moster Dog at the Underground, Huntsville, 1987
Flyer for Coup D'Etat and Moster Dog at the Underground, Huntsville, Alabama, August 1, 1987.
$3. "BE THERE OR GO DIE!"
Courtesy David Baird.
$3. "BE THERE OR GO DIE!"
Courtesy David Baird.
Flyer: Monster Dog and Coup D'etat at the Underground, Huntsville, 1987
Flyer for Monster Dog and Coup d'etat at the Underground, Huntsville, Alabama, August 22, 1987.
"Stuff should start happening around SUNSET.
NO REDNECKS, GOOD OLE BOYS, CORNSLAPS, ... etc!!"
Courtesy David Baird.
"Stuff should start happening around SUNSET.
NO REDNECKS, GOOD OLE BOYS, CORNSLAPS, ... etc!!"
Courtesy David Baird.
3 Flyers: Subversive Vengeance and Skeletal Death in Madison, 1987
Three flyers for Subversive Vengeance and Skeletal Death in Madison, Alabama, October 16, 1987.
"THRASH 'tiL DEATH!"
"THE AREA'S FIRST AND ONLY DEATH CORE BAND..."
Courtesy David Baird.
"THRASH 'tiL DEATH!"
"THE AREA'S FIRST AND ONLY DEATH CORE BAND..."
Courtesy David Baird.
Flyer: Alien and T-Mac at Kalea Park, Huntsville, 1988
Alien and T-Mac at Kalea Park, Huntsville, Alabama, April 9, 1988. With special guests Opie and the Pontiacs, Alias, Silhouette, and Laissez Faire.
Courtesy David Baird.
Courtesy David Baird.
Flyer: No Fraud, Random Conflict, Children Shouldn't Die, and Humanicide at the Carriage Inn, Huntsville, 1989
Flyer for No Fraud, Random Conflict, Children Shouldn't Die, and Humanicide at the Carriage Inn, Huntsville, Alabama, April 29, 1989.
"NO BOOZE!!! OR WOMBATS"
From the collection of David Baird.
"NO BOOZE!!! OR WOMBATS"
From the collection of David Baird.
Sun Ra at Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, 1980
Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, 1980. Sun Ra sits at keyboard. J. L. Lowe stands in white tuxedo.
Courtesy Carol Clarke.
Courtesy Carol Clarke.
December 1986 Christmas Church Singing
Cassette tape from a Meridian, Mississippi, flea market. Label reads: "Dec. 86 Christmas Church Singers." Church and location are unidentified.Side A selections include “Beautiful Star of Bethlehem,” “God Will Take Care of You,” “The Touch of His…
Big Bill Lister Interview
Interview with Big Bill Lister (1923-2009), recorded by Darwin Lee Hill, July 15, 2001.
Texas-born Big Bill Lister was a singer, songwriter, guitarist, Capitol recording artist, and close associate of Hank Williams, with whom he toured and…
Erskine Hawkins and the Birmingham Heritage Band, Function at the Junction, 1988 (4 Photos)
Erskine Hawkins performs with the Birmingham Heritage Band at the annual Function at the Junction in Ensley, Alabama, July 23, 1988. Amos Gordon conducts in the band. Henry Blankenship sings.
Begun in 1985 in Ensley's Tuxedo Junction Park, the…
Begun in 1985 in Ensley's Tuxedo Junction Park, the…
"'Money ain't no good': Banjos, dulcimers bring cash, but music is mountain man's currency" (1980)
"'Money ain't no good': Banjos, dulcimers bring cash, but music is mountain man's currency,"Charlotte News, March 13, 1980.
"Hand-crafted banjos are a labor of love" (1983)
Jerry Bledsoe, "Hand-crafted banjos are a labor of love,"Greensboro Daily News, November 13, 1983.
"Making good banjos and telling tall tales: Slow 'n' easy does it" (1983)
Beverly Mills, "Making good banjos and telling tall tales: Slow 'n' easy does it," Raleigh News and Observer, October 16, 1983.
"Mountain Tales Spellbind Burke" (1985)
Brent Childers, "Mountain Tales Spellbind Burke,"Hickory Daily Record, February 26, 1985.
"Old ways endure along Blue Ridge Parkway"
"Old ways endure along Blue Ridge Parkway,"Raleigh News and Observer, August 11, 1985.
"A Mountain Man And His Magic Tales" (1989)
Jeri Fischer, "A Mountain Man And His Magic Tales,"Charlotte Observer, February 12, 1989.
"Man Of Mountains, Music And Tales: Stanley Hicks, N. C. Folk Artist And Instrument Maker, Dies At Age 78" (1989)
Rob Urban, "Man Of Mountains, Music And Tales: Stanley Hicks, N. C. Folk Artist And Instrument Maker, Dies At Age 78,"Charlotte Observer, November 9, 1989.
The Jerry Grundy Trio, Featuring Laura Washington
In this radio broadcast, circa 1988-1989, singer Laura Washington appears with the Jerry Grundy Trio at Grundy's Music Room in Birmingham, Alabama.From 1979 to 1992, Grundy's Music Room -- owned and operated by Jerry and Bernadine "Bernie"…
Flyer: SDT with GNP, Dr. Jekyll's, Birmingham
Flyer (original art and photocopy) for Abraham Lincoln's Birthday Bash, featuring SDT with GNP, Dr. Jekyll's, Birmingham, Alabama, February 12, 1988. Courtesy Chris Hendrix.