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Interview with Kyshona, conducted by Burgin Mathews for the Southern Music Research Center, September 3, 2024.Kyshona discusses her family's gospel roots, her work as a musical therapist, and the creation of her new album, Legacy, a powerful…

Sheet music for "Modern Cannon Ball" by A. P. Carter, Bill Boyd, and Earl Nunn, as featured by Hal Burns. Peer International Corporation, New York, New York, 1942.

Cover includes a photo of Hal Burns and his dog, Sissy, at Memphis radio station…

Painting of Sam Phillips by Craig Legg, 2023. #097 in Craig Legg's Alabama Roots Music Trading Card Series. Courtesy Craig Legg.

Photo postcard featuring Shorty Ginn, the “One-Man, Ten-Piece Band,” Decatur, Alabama, c. 1960s. A native of Belmont, Mississippi, Ginn performed in and out of Alabama and Mississippi from the 1940s into at least the 1960s. By 1949, he had…

Funeral program for fife player Otha Turner (1908-2003) and drummer Bernice Turner Pratcher (1954-2003), Como, Mississippi. Both father and daughter, bearers of the family's distinctive fife and drum tradition, died on February 27, 2003.

Program…

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.