Fiddler Blind Alfred Reed (center) with his West Virginia Nite Owls. Undated photograph, ca. late 1920s. From the Guthrie T. Meade Collection.
Category: Photo of the Week
Photo of the Week: Nimrod Workman
Singer and coal miner Nimrod Workman, performing at the 1985 Tennessee Grassroots Days festival in Nashville. Photo by David Hildebrand, from the Southern Folk Cultural Revival Project Collection.
Photo of the Week: Mance Lipscomb
Texas blues singer Mance Lipscomb at the 1970 Beloit Blues Festival, “showing off guitar set into dentures”. From the Archie Green Collection.
Photo of the Week: Mary Travers
Mary Travers, of Peter, Paul & Mary (undated, 1960s).
Photo of the Week: Boozoo Chavis
Zydeco musician Boozoo Chavis, 1950s. From the Goldband Recording Corporation Collection.
Photo of the Week: Jimmie Rodgers and Will Rogers
Photo of the Week: Sara and Maybelle Carter
Sara Carter (banjo) and her cousin Maybelle (auto harp), ca. 1919, about eight years before the first recordings of the Carter Family.
From the Ed Kahn Collection.
Photo of the Week: Mike Seeger
Photo Of The Week: Patsy Montana
Country singer Patsy Montana, in a 1931 publicity photograph.
Photo Of The Week: Frank Hutchison
Country blues singer Frank Hutchison, ca. 1929. The name of the Shih-Tzu is unrecorded. From the Guthrie T. Meade Collection.