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1937 hazard coal carnival crowds
September 20, 2007 Carnivals & circuses / Festivals & parades / Kentucky

The Black Gold Festival

The Black Gold Festival in Hazard is Kentucky’s second largest festival (the Kentucky Derby Festival Marathon/miniMarathon is the largest).

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new orleans prostitute early 1900s
September 15, 2007 Appalachian music / Ballad singers / Kentucky / Songcatchers

How ‘House of the Rising Sun’ traveled from KY to Bangkok–and back!

The song’s odyssey began September 15, 1937 when folklorist Alan Lomax recorded a version by 16-year-old Georgia Turner in Middlesboro, Ky.

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bristol birthplace mural
September 14, 2007 Appalachian music / Bluegrass / Recording industry / Tennessee

Nashville? Well, no. Bristol.

Yes, Nashville has the Grand Ole Opry and the big name recording artists. But Bristol stakes its claim as the birthplace of country music.

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floyd county times masthead and state map
August 24, 2007 Kentucky / Newspaper

Don’t kill snakes on the Sabbath! Or else.

What happened in Floyd County, KY on August 24, 1934? The Floyd County Times gives us a ‘day in the life’ look.

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three louvin brothers concert promo posters
August 10, 2007 Alabama / Appalachian music / Bluegrass

That’ll be cash on the barrelhead son

Both Charlie & Ira were attracted to the close-harmony country brother duets of the Blue Sky Boys and the Delmore Brothers.

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