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Newspaper advertisement for Reco Lynn, "Mr. Voice of the South," and "Lucky" Leon Davis, "'The Singing Drummer' And His All-Star Band," Club 401, Powderly, Alabama.Birmingham Mirror, March 4, 1961.

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Singer Rickey Powell at The Jaybird, Birmingham, Alabama, December 16, 2017. Photo by Roger Stephenson.

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DLH : Liz Anderson Transcript.pdf
Interview with Liz Anderson (1927-2011), recorded by Darwin Lee Hill, September 7, 2002.

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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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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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DLH : Smokey Stover Transcript.pdf
Interview with country music disc jockey, songwriter, singer, and guitarist Smokey Stover (1928-2005), conducted over the telephone by Darwin Lee Hill, January 12, 2002.

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Poster for the Birmingham Heritage Band, circa 1980s.

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Newspaper advertisement for Lucky Millinder and his Orchestra, featuring singer Judy Carrol.Weekly Review, January 15, 1944.

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Newspaper advertisement for singer June Richmond with Andy Kirk's Twelve Clouds of Joy at Birminghams Masonic Temple,Weekly Review, October 11, 1940.

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Unidentified singer / guitarist at Jack Guy's Store.

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Autographed promotional photo for Polly Christian, recording artist for Cullman, Alabama's Three Star record label. Courtesy John Horton.

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Funeral program for vocalist Sylvester Rickey Powell (1948-2022), Birmingham, Alabama.

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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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Detail from contact sheet by photographer Skip Aldeman. (For the full sheet of images, see "Billie Holiday and Joe Guy (2 Contact Sheets)." The Birmingham-born Guy, an early bebop pioneer, was widely known as Billie Holiday's husband, though the…

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Detail from contact sheet by photographer Skip Aldeman. (For the full sheet of images, see "Billie Holiday and Joe Guy (2 Contact Sheets)." The Birmingham-born Guy, an early bebop pioneer, was widely known as Billie Holiday's husband, though the…

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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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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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These original contact sheets by photographer Skip Aldeman include images of Billie Holiday and Joe Guy, her musical and romantic partner. Also pictured is their beloved bulldog, Mister.

The Birmingham-born Guy, an early bebop pioneer, was widely…

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Birmingham trumpeter Joe Guy, an early bebop pioneer, was Billie Holiday's musical and romantic partner. (Known as husband and wife, they likely never formally married.) When the couple was busted for narcotics possession in 1947, Guy returned to…

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Charles “Chuck” Clarke, Mary Alice Clarke Stollenwerck, Joe Guy, and Jesse Evans perform in a Birmingham club, c. 1950s.

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