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Collection Overview
Title: Bill Parker Collection
Predominant Dates:1965-1968
Extent: 2.0 Boxes (General)
Arrangement: The collection is arranged by (1) recordings (including listening/reference copies in CD format) and (2) photographs.
Subjects: Banjo music., Fiddle tunes.
Languages: English
Scope and Contents of the Materials
This collection is comprised of photographs and digital copies of nine reel-to-reel audio tape recordings of singers, fiddlers, banjo players, and other traditional musicians, some of whom are otherwise undocumented. The recordings were made in the mid-1960s by Bill Parker of Paducah, Kentucky. Included are performances of Kentucky musicians at the American Folk Song Festival in Ashland, Kentucky; African-American singer and harmonica player "Peg Leg" Sam Jackson, in Knott County, Kentucky; and fiddlers and banjo players from Alabama and North Carolina.
Subject/Index Terms
Administrative Information
Repository:
Berea College Special Collections and Archives Catalog
Access Restrictions:
Records can be accessed through the Reading Room, Berea College Special Collections and Archives, Hutchins Library, Berea College. A sampling of audio files may be heard online.
Use Restrictions:
There are no restrictions on use of this material other than federal copyright regulations.
Preferred Citation:
[Object identification], Bill Parker Collection, Berea College Special Collections & Archives, Berea, KY.
Processing Information:
The collection was processed by Harry Rice, Sound Archivist. The finding aid was created in July 2015 by Harry Rice and Lori Myers-Steele, Collections Archivist.
Other Note:
BCA 0114 SAA 114
Box and Folder Listing
Browse by Series:
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Series 1: Recordings and Photographs],
[All]
- Series 1: Recordings and Photographs
- Box 1: Recordings - Including listening/reference copies in CD format
- Folder 1: BP-OR-001-001
- American Folk Song Festival: 1966, Boyd Co., Ashland, KY Recorded by Bill Parker of Paducah, KY.
- Folder 2: BP-CD-001-001
- Buell Kazee: Interview, banjo playing and singing recorded by Bill Parker, 1967.
- Folder 3: BP-OR-001-002
- American Folk Song Festival: 1967, Boyd Co., Ashland, KY Recorded by Bill Parker Paducah, KY.
- Folder 4: BP-OR-001-003
- American Folk Song Festival: 1967, Boyd Co., Ashland, KY Recorded by Bill Parker Paducah, KY. [Last Part of 1967 "Singin Gatherin"
- Folder 5: BP-OR-001-004
- American Folk Song Festival: 1968, Boyd Co., Ashland, KY Recorded by Bill Parker Paducah, KY [Tape 1/2 - see BP-OR-001-005]
- Folder 6: BP-OR-001-005
- [INSERT: Parkers & Fraleys @ American Folk Song Festival / Reel #2]
- Folder 7: BP-OR-002-001
- Bill Parker - 1965 Collecting Trip - Master A. Jim and Bill Fuller Buncombe County, North Carolina. Shorty McCruiston, Calloway County, Kentucky.
- Folder 9: BP-OR-002-002
- Bill Parker - 1965 Collecting Trip - Master B. Harley Smith & Fonza Smith, Chilton County, Alabama. 'Peg Leg Sam"
- Folder 10: BP-OR-002-003
- Bill Parker - 1965 Collecting Trip - Combined Master. No listening copy made - seems to be copy combining 002-001 and 002-002.
- Folder 11: BP-OR-001-001
Listening Copy in CD Format.
American Folk Song Festival: 1966, Boyd Co., Ashland, KY Recorded by Bill Parker of Paducah, KY.
- Folder 12: BP-CD-001-001
Listening Copy in CD Format.
Buell Kazee: Interview, banjo playing and singing recorded by Bill Parker, 1967.
- Folder 13: BP-OR-001-002
Listening Copy in CD Format.
American Folk Song Festival: 1967, Boyd Co., Ashland, KY Recorded by Bill Parker Paducah, KY.
- Folder 14: BP-OR-001-003
Listening Copy in CD Format.
American Folk Song Festival: 1967, Boyd Co., Ashland, KY Recorded by Bill Parker Paducah, KY. [Last Part of 1967 "Singin Gatherin"
- Folder 15: BP-OR-001-004
Listening Copy in CD Format.
American Folk Song Festival: 1968, Boyd Co., Ashland, KY Recorded by Bill Parker Paducah, KY [Tape 1/2 - see BP-OR-001-005]
- Folder 16: BP-OR-001-005
- Listening Copy in CD Format.
- Folder 17: BP-OR-002-001
Listening Copy in CD Format.
Bill Parker - 1965 Collecting Trip - Master A. Jim and Bill Fuller Buncombe County, North Carolina. Shorty McCruiston, Calloway County, Kentucky.
- Folder 18: BP-OR-002-002
Listening Copy in CD Format.
Bill Parker - 1965 Collecting Trip - Master B. Harley Smith & Fonza Smith, Chilton County, Alabama. 'Peg Leg Sam"
- Box 2: Sleeved Photographs
