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Newspaper advertisement for Bob's Supper Club (Birmingham, Alabama), featuring Johnnie Hayden, Lucky Leon Davis, Hardy Matthews, Westbrook Walker, and Art Harris.Huntsville Mirror, March 23, 1957.

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Arlie Watson sings and plays the guitar.

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Interview with Dusty Owens (1930-2015), recorded over the telephone by Darwin Lee Hill, February 7, 2007.

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Johnson Family home recording, Sand Mountain, Alabama, 1953

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Funeral program for Henry Lee "Gip" Gipson, Sr.: blues musician and proprietor of Gip's Place, the Bessemer, Alabama, juke joint (1931-2019).

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Johnson Family radio broadcast excerpt, Sand Mountain, Alabama, 1953

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Dale Casteel, interview with Burgin Mathews, recorded over the telephone, February 10, 2024. A founding member of the Alabama Ramblers, Casteel reflects on his time with that band, as well as on other musical experiences both before and after the…

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Funeral program for blues musician and visual artist James "Son" Thomas (1926-1993), Leland, Mississippi.

Program provided by Frank Philips.

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Funeral program for Jessie Mae Hemphill (1923-2006): blues and gospel singer, songwriter, drummer, and guitarist, and a bearer of north Mississippi's fife and drum tradition, Senatobia, Mississippi.

Program provided by Adam Lore.

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Born in McCracken County, Kentucky, Kasper “Stranger” Malone (1909 – 2005) set out on his own at the age of fifteen and soon landed in Rome, Georgia, where he connected with some of the pioneers of old-time country string-band music. In 1926,…

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Kenny and Bettyanne Roberts drop by Poughkeepshie, New York, radio station WHVW for a live broadcast of Darwin Lee's Real Hillbilly Music Show. "The Jumping Cowboy" and "America's King of the Yodelers," Kenny Roberts (1927-2012) began a long career…

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Johnson Family radio broadcast excerpt, Sand Mountain, Alabama, 1953

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Johnson Family radio broadcast excerpt, Sand Mountain, Alabama, 1953

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Oldest son of celebrated Alabama fiddler Charlie Stripling, Robert Stripling began playing publicly with his father at the age of 10. In these interview excerpts, Stripling remembers his fiddler father; his own early musical experiences; making music…

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Interview with Slim Bryant, recorded by Darwin Lee Hill, May 24, 1996. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1908, songwriter, singer, and guitarist Thomas Hoyt “Slim” Bryant made his first recordings in 1928 as a member of the Harmony Boys string band. He…

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Guitarist Al Talley entertains at a dinner for University of Alabama Dental School alumni, press photo, 1967.

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

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