Country music -- West Virginia
Subject
Subject Source: Local Lc
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Ivan M. Tribe and Jacob Bapst, Compilers, Records Regarding West Virginia Country Music Performers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4160
Scope and Contents
This collection contains materials related to Ivan M. Tribe and Jacob Bapst's research for their books on West Virginia country music performers. Materials include a book proof, Appalachian Studies Association Powerpoint presentation, Fairmont and Clarksburg Radio in Appalachian Country Music History Powerpoint presentation, and photos used in the book West Virginia's Traditional Country Music by Tribe and Bapst.Materials from the addendum of 2022 October...
Dates:
1925-2015; Majority of material found within 1930-1960
Ivan M. Tribe, Collector, West Virginia Country Western Music Memorabilia
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4139
Scope and Contents
Digital copies of photographs, song books, booklets, and other memorabilia documenting country western, bluegrass, gospel, and folk musicians and radio stations in West Virginia and neighboring states. The files represent four volumes of "West Virginia Country Western Photographs" collated by Ivan M. Tribe (author of several books on country and bluegrass music in West Virginia), as well as "Doc Williams' Border Riders Family Album" and "W-M-M-N Family Album 1941." Photographs include...
Dates:
ca. 1930s-2000s
Travis Stimeling, Music Professor, West Virginia Song Writer Oral Histories
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4470
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with West Virginia song writers, including sound recordings of the interviews and the corresponding transcripts. Travis Stimeling was the interviewer. This material was the basis for Stimeling's book "Songwriting in Contemporary West Virginia" published by the West Virginia University Press in 2018. The interviewees are songwriters who have lived and/or worked in West Virginia for a significant portion of their lives, and who have local, regional, national, and...
Dates:
2014-2016
West Virginia Country and Western Music Memorabilia
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3538
Overview
Memorabilia regarding the musicians and music of the country and western music show "Jamboree" broadcast by Wheeling, West Virginia radio station WWVA. Includes eight song or history books, two song sheets, and thirteen photographs of the musicians who performed at the "Jamboree." Among the performers represented are Mack Jeffers' Fiddlin' Farmers, Jake Taylor and his Rail Splitters, Joe Barker's Radio Circus, Cowboy Loye, Grandpa Jones, Curley Miller and his Ploughboys, as well as West...
Dates:
1908-ca.1960