North Carolina lawyer, musician, and folklorist Bascom Lamar Lunsford, ca. 1960s. From the John Edwards Memorial Foundation Collection.
Category: Photo of the Week
Photo of the Week: J.P. Fraley
Kentucky fiddler J.P. Fraley, far right, with an unidentified accomplice. Ca. 1930s, from the Guthrie T. Meade Collection.
Photo of the Week: Marshall Claiborne
One-armed fiddler Marshall Claiborne of Hartsville, Tennessee, ca. 1926. Claiborne placed second in the 1926 old-time fiddlers’ contest at Nashville, utilizing an unusual technique of holding the bow between his knees and moving the fiddle against it with his left arm. Photo from the Guthrie T. Meade Collection.
Photo of the Week: The Farr Brothers
Texas-born brothers Hugh Farr, Glen Farr, and Karl Farr (along with their brother-in-law Billy Weir, wearing the hat), photographed in 1927 in Van Nuys, California. Hugh and Karl would later join Roy Rogers in the Sons of the Pioneers and record an obviously autobiographical fiddle tune called “The Texas Crapshooter”: Texas Crapshooter
Clip from TR-873 in the Sons of the Pioneers Transcription Disc Collection.
Photo of the Week: Count Rockin' Sidney
Louisiana R&B singer Count Rockin’ Sidney in a ca. 1965 promotional photo from the Goldband Records Collection.
Photo of the Week: Stoneman Family
Taken in Galax, Virginia, in 1928. From left to right: Iver Edwards, George Stoneman, Eck Dunford, Ernest Stoneman, Hattie Stoneman, and Balen Frost.
Photo of the Week: Sol Hoopii Trio
This ca. 1928 photo of Hawaiian lap steel guitarist Sol Hoopii and his Trio comes in two forms: unrated (above), and edited for content (below). Both from the Eugene Earle Collection.
Photo of the Week: Hank Williams
The whole-grain goodness of Hank Williams and his band at WSM studios in 1950. Left to right: Howard Watts, WSM announcer “Cousin” Louie Buck, Sammy Pruett, Hank Williams, Jerry Rivers, and Don Helms. Hank is likely the only Pulitzer Prize winner to have appeared in an advertisement for something called “Hog Ration”.
Photo of the Week: Jimmie Rodgers
Jimmie Rodgers posing with his 1930 Model A Ford in Kerrville, Texas. This and many other vintage photos of Rodgers can be seen in the SFC’s current exhibit Jimmie Rodgers: The Father of Country Music, showing on the 4th Floor of Wilson Library through July 13.
Photo of the Week: Grayson and Whitter with the Greer Sisters
Henry Whitter (standing), G. B. Grayson, and the Greer Sisters of Boone, North Carolina, photographed ca. 1927.