Tag: folk song collectors

Primarily an impression of Kentucky music

Loraine Wyman was among the first persons to systematically search for folk songs in the Southern Appalachians.

West Virginian Dr. Patrick W. Gainer dedicated the balance of his life to a personal crusade to revitalize the region’s folk traditions.

When a cold winter shadow I cast on the ground/ And frost from the foothills is creeping all around/ I now and then glance down the road…

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