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[Banjo & Percussion Demonstration]
played on banjo by David Holt at the Berea College Celebration of Traditional Music on 11-01-80
[Berea President Frost & Reed Organs]
Long time Berea College music professor Gladys Jameson recounts Berea President Frost's preference for teaching use of the reed organ as part of Berea's music education efforts
[Drunkard's Song]
sung and played on dulcimer by Josiah Combs and recorded by John Lomax and Bess Lomax Hawes 9-13-40 in Fort Worth, Texas for the Library of Congress
[Grey Cock, The]
Berea College Celebration of Traditional Music Performance
[Hearing a mountain ballad for the first time]
Long time Berea College music professor Gladys Jameson describes her first time hearing a mountian ballad sung by a student from Breathitt County, Kentucky in 1916
[Little Mohee]
Berea College Celebration of Traditional Music Performance
[My Love's Like a Red, Red Rose]
Berea College Celebration of Traditional Music Performance
[Preacher and the Bear]
Berea College Celebration of Traditional Music Performance
[Rose is Read, The Stem is Green]
sung and played on banjo by Peachie Howard and recorded by Bruce Greene in Magoffin County, Kentucky 3-3-77
[STORY] Big Hornets, Little Hornets
Tale told by Berzilla Wallin, at the Berea College Celebration of Traditional Music on 11-01-80
[What'll I Do With The] Baby O
sung by Jean Ritchie at a Berea College concert
Always Been A Rambler
Sister and brother Texas Gladden and Hobart Smith were born in Saltville, (Smyth & Washington Counties) Virginia (1895 and 1897 respectively). Texas had a known repertoire of some two hundred songs. Hobart was a multi-instrumentalist (fiddle, guitar,…