Alan Arkin (guitar) and Erik Darling (banjo) of the Tarriers, with unidentified woman and child.
Photograph taken for Look! magazine, ca. 1956. From the Erik Darling Collection.
Exploring the Southern Folklife Collection
Alan Arkin (guitar) and Erik Darling (banjo) of the Tarriers, with unidentified woman and child.
Photograph taken for Look! magazine, ca. 1956. From the Erik Darling Collection.
Tom Clancy, Tommy Makem, and Liam Clancy in a 1962 Columbia Records promotional photo.
Bill Monroe performing with Doc Watson, 1963. Some highlights from their performances together are collected on the excellent Smithsonian Folkways CD Live Duet Recordings 1963-1980.
Folklorist Archie Green with musician Dorsey Dixon and an unidentified horse (mule?), East Rockingham, North Carolina, 1962. Green was recording Dixon’s Babies in the Mill album at the time.
From the Archie Green Collection.
George “Goober” Lindsey, promoting his 1968 album “Goober Sings” at KBBQ radio in Burbank, California. He’s flanked by KBBQ music director Larry Scott, Don Grierson of Capitol Records, and disc jockeys Bob Jackson and Hugh Jarrett. One of 56 KBBQ press release photographs found in the Southern Folklife Collection Radio and Television Files.
Tommy Carlisle, the son of country-blues singer Cliff Carlisle, modelling his cowboy costume, mid-1930s.
Clarence Ashley of Mountain City, Tennessee, ca. 1960.
Thelonious Monk, photographed by Robert Bolton at the Atlanta Jazz Festival, May 1966. From the Robert Bolton Collection.