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Betty N. Smith Collection, 1880-2024

Audio Recordings

Series 3: Audio Recordings

The following audiocassette tapes have not been digitized.

Subseries 3.1: Audiocassettes, 1973-1998, n.d.

Box 26: 

C-00033/1 Cratis Williams, July 8, 1978; Cratis Williams, Girl in Little Green Hat Summer Hostel Ballad; Christian Harmony, Elderhostel 1978
C-00033/2 Cratis Williams, Mars Hill College, June 5, 1978
C-00033/3 Cratis Williams, Appalachian History, June, 1978
C-00033/4 Cratis Williams, July 14, 1976
C-00033/5 Cratis Williams
C-00033/6 Cratis Williams, Byard Ray, June, 1978
C-00033/7 Lalla Rolfe and Betty Rolfe, October 19, 1987; Phyllis Marks - Berea Fest; Frank Proffitt Jr. - Berea Fest
C-00033/8 Nola Jane Yrjana, September, 1990, Tape 1
C-00033/9 Nola Jane Yrjana, September, 1990, Tape 2
C-00033/10 Gentry Reunion, Hot Springs, 1980
C-00033/11 Jane Gentry Gathering, Sunnybank, Hot Springs, October, 1987
C-00033/12 Peggy Dotterer, May 23, 1991, Tape 1
C-00033/13 Peggy Dotterer, May 23, 1991, Tape 2
C-00033/14 Peggy Dotterer, Hot Springs, September 29, 1987
C-00033/15 Cas Wallin, January, 1975
C-00033/16 Byard Ray, Chattahoochee Fest 1978; Children's Workshop, Chattahoochee Fest 1978
C-00033/17 Mrs. Dellie Norton, June 15, 1981
C-00033/18 Blayden Races, Geordie Monica, Songs
C-00033/19 Unlabeled Tape
C-00033/20 Mt. Music Homecoming Concert, September 8, 1989
C-00033/21 J.P. Fraley, Wild Rose of the Mountains
C-00033/22 Byard and Betty; Uncle Dave Macon
C-00033/23 Byard and Betty Thanksgiving, 1974; Betty Sue's Cabin
C-00033/24 Unlabeled Tape
C-00033/25 John McCutcheon, Flying Cloud; Sandy Paton, Rickety Tickety, Wind and Rain; Caroline Paton, Cruel Brother (David Jones); Mars Hill Festival, October, 1974; Betty Smith (Psaltry); Rilla Ray; Patsy Margolin; Appalachian Folks
C-00033/26 Bill Malone, "Traditional Roots of Country Music", Berea College, October 28, 1978; Bradley Kincaid; Asa Martin; Grandpa and Ramona Jones; Phil Kazee
C-00033/27 Psaltery Pieces, Young Jane, Eileen Aroon, Wee Roving Lassie etc.
C-00033/28 Pat Roberts, August 31, 1994
C-00033/29 Jean Ritchie Berea, October 29, 1977; Quay Smathers, Shape Note Singing Berea, October 29, 1977
C-00033/30 Hymns - Betty Smith
C-00033/31 Psaltery Lesson, August, 1973; Eric Nagler, Fox Hollow, 1973; Psaltery Lesson Continued, Galax VA
C-00033/32 Dulcimer Workshop, Cosby TN; Banjo Tunes on Dulcimer with Kitty, One I Love, Shadow of the Pines
C-00033/33 Christmas School: Children Songs and Games; Chris Urquhart
C-00033/34 NAAFF Concert, Nashville TN, 1982

Box 27

C-00033/35 Fiddlers Grove 1974, Peter Gott; Peter Gott, Sailor Boy
C-00033/36 Cas Wallin, Dellie Norton, Brazil Wallin, July 15, 1975
C-00033/37 Cas Wallin, July 15, 1975; Darby's Ram, Dellie Norton, Rosewood Casket, Brazil Wallin, Mouthharp
C-00033/38 Byard Fiddle Tunes Part of Side A; B: Lunsford
C-00033/39 Sodom Festival
C-00033/40 Evening Star Concert, Santee GA
C-00033/41 Lowell Taylor, Ballads
C-00033/42 Bluff Mountain Music
C-00033/43 Kilby Snow, Duke, 1974; Learning Banjo Pieces on Dulcimer; Margaret Henry, Big Bass Drum
C-00033/44 Uncle Charlie Osborne, T. Bledsoe, R. [Kiely?], "Bluegrass Symposium"
C-00033/45 Berzilla and Doug Wallin, Interview, "The Bold Lieutenant", September 1, 1984
C-00033/46 Cas Wallin, January 24, 1975; Mars Hill Festival, October, 1974
C-00033/47 Evelyn Ramsey, Reedy Creek Boys, Inez Chandler; Reedy Creek Boys, Sheila Rice, Nick Hallman
C-00033/48 Edsel Martin and Monday Nite at Lou's; At Lou's
C-00033/49 David D., Banjo; Betty's Class, Lou, Banjo
C-00033/50 Jimmy Kelly and Band, Practice, South Arts Federation Showcase, Fiddle Tune; Barbara Taylor
C-00033/51 Betty Smith Practice Programs
C-00033/52 Side 1: Kinross Festival, Scotland, September, 1977 - Sheila Douglas, Willie Spencer, Border Musicians, Jane Turiff; Side 2: Kinross - Bill Hardie, Irene Riggs
C-00033/53 Side A: Betty Hymn and Carol Singing by Butterworth School Children
C-00033/54 Side 1: Kinross Festival, Oil Rig Ceilidh Band, Jean Redpath, bad tape side 1; Side 2: Aberdeen - Lizzie Higgins
C-00033/55 Side 1: Royal Albert Hall, London, September 24, 1977; Side 2: [     ]
C-00033/56 Side 1: Aberdeen - Lizzie Higgins and Lindy, Bromyard Festival; Side 2: Bromyard Festival - Folk Song
C-00033/57 Side 1: Ewell School - Betty, John and Joan Glaisters home - Surrey; Side 2: John and Joan Glaisters home - Surrey, (Albert Hall - last part), Roy Harris
C-00033/58 Side 1: Bromyard Festival - Afternoon Ballad Session; Side 2: Ron Shuttleworth - "The Darby Ram," Na Fili, Keith Chandler
C-00033/59 Side 1: Albert Hall Concert - Albion Band, Ted Carr - flat picks on hammered dulcimer; Side 2: Ted Carr
C-00033/60 Side 1: Bromyard Festival, England, Ballads; Side 2: Bromyard Festival, Betty Smith
C-00033/61 Side 1: The Grand - Edinburgh, Betty Smith, David Stuart and others; Side 2: Sean Cannon - "Ireland" Medley, Jean Redpath and family, Leven conversation - hammered dulcimer
C-00033/62 Side 1: Bromyard Festival - Peter Bellamy, Betty Smith - psaltery; Side 2: Bromyard Festival - Bob Davenport
C-00033/63 Side A: Fox Hollow 1974, Ballad workshop - John Roberts, Tony Barrand; Side B: Ed Trickett, Jean Ritchie, Utah Phillips, Saletahs, Frankie Armstrong
C-00033/64 Side A: Fox Hollow 1974, Sandy and Caroline Paton, Mary Lee Walker; Side B: Rusts - May Morning Chimes, Joe Hickerson - Gentle Annie
C-00033/65 Side A: Fox Hollow 1974, Sandy and Caroline Paton; Side B: Sandy and Caroline Patton, Ballad workshop, Frankie Armstrong
C-00033/66 Fox Hollow 1974
C-00033/67 Fox Hollow
C-00033/68 Psaltry Workshop August, 1974 - Susan and Becky Boyer, B. Smith, Debbie Auterino

Box 28

C-00033/69 Side 1: Fiddler's Grove 1975, 2 Little Babes - Jan McNeel, Byard and Mr. Fraley; Side 2: Hi Fi Stereo Color TV - Henry the Fiddler, I'm Going Through - Ola Belle Reed
C-00033/70 Side A: Psaltry Workshop - Fox Hollow - August, 1974, Seasons of Peace, Lullabye to Martha, Ladybug Song, History, Wild Mountain Thyme, etc.; Side B: Greenfields - B. Smith, Chuck Heyman - bowed psaltry, Water is Wide - small psaltry
C-00033/71 Side 1: Florida Festival 1975 - Bessie Jones, Frank Wilson - nonsense song, Berea - Hornpipers, Roscoe Holcomb, J.D. and Annadean Fraley; Side 2: Bradley Kincaid, Lewis and Donna Lamb, Doc Hopkins, Cumberland Rangers, Asa Martin
C-00033/72 Floyd and Edna
C-00033/73 "Grandma's Last Waltz," Composer: Meredith, John C. Campbell Music and Dance Week; Steve Hickman - violin, John - bass, Betty Smith - guitar
C-00033/74 Florida Folk Arts Conference - Smiths, Jean Ritchie and George, Cousin Thelma, Allan Jabbour, George Reynolds
C-00033/75 Sue Smathers, August 21, 1998
C-00033/76 Side 1: Marj Rogers - Froggie, Mary Holmes - Ugly Grizzly Bear, Scottish Grace - Some Have Heat; Side 2: Pesaltree sermon
C-00033/77 Hymns - Betty Smith
C-00033/78 Side A: Doug and Jack Wallin, "Bluegrass" Symposium - Bill Malone; Side B: "Bluegrass" Symposium - Bill Malone
C-00033/79 Louetta Payne, May 5, 1996, Swannanoa, N.C.
C-00033/80 James R. York Ballads, No. 1 Tape, Full on both sides
C-00033/81 James R. York Ballads, No. 2 Tape, Full on both sides
C-00033/82 James R. York Ballads, Full on both sides, Tape No. 3
C-00033/83 James R. York Ballads, Full on both sides, Tape No. 4
C-00033/84 James R. York Ballads, Full on both sides, Tape No. 5
C-00033/85 James R. York Ballads, Full on both sides
C-00033/86 Part of York tapes
C-00033/87 Tape I: Maude Kilbourne - Berea, Kentucky, July 4, 1976, Ballads, Cecil Sharp, Interviewed by Loyal Jones, Sides 1 and 2
C-00033/88 Side A: Betty; Side B: Betty and Group
C-00033/89 Phone Conversation [Lou?]; Conversation with Dan Ciardi
C-00033/90 Side 1: Berea October, 1977, Smathers Family, David Morris; Side 2: Berea October, 1977, Saturday concert
C-00033/91 Berea Festival, October 27, 1978, Friday Night
C-00033/92 Psaltry Workshop I - Psaltry Workshop August, 1973
C-00033/93 Psaltry Workshop II - Psaltry Workshop August, 1973
C-00033/94 Rendie and Archie Smith
C-00033/95 Rendie Smith and Sister
C-00033/96 Lora Kiss, cimbalom - Habersham County, July 15, 1978
C-00033/97 Side 1: Rennie Russell (near Alpharetta), Barry Etris (Mary Fagin); Side 2: Cosby, Tenn., Easter 1975, Jean and Lee Schilling, Two White Horses (story) Band, Margaret McArthur
C-00033/98 Mrs. Fanny Sessions - Whiteville, N.C. April 12, 1975 - Naomi Wise, Gypsy's Warning, Rosewood Casket, Blind Child, Fatal Wedding
C-00033/99 Oma Pitts, Kennesaw, Ga. February 24, 1977
C-00033/100 Side 1: Luke Peebles - Bluffton, S.C. May 10, 1975; Side 2: 20 min blank - 10 min Rendie Smith - Little Sparrow, Bear story
C-00033/101 Asheville Festival Retape
C-00033/102 Jimmy Kelly (Nashville) 1978

Box 29

C-00033/103 Cas Wallin January 24, 1975 - Romish Lady, Young Emily, Death, Rain and Snow, Hick's Farewell, Blues and Yodeling, Fine Sally, Great Day, Times Have Made a Change, Got a Better Place, Where Will I Shelter
C-00033/104 Byard Ray - Banjo, Stories 1977
C-00033/105 Tommy Hunter and Byard Ray - Soldier's Joy, Byard Ray - "Little Sparrow," etc. Appalachian Folks; Tommy Hunter - Leather Breeches, Soldier's Joy, Ragtime Annie, Bell's Hornpipe, Laurel Branch, Blue Water Hornpipe, Nancy Roland, Arkansas Traveler
C-00033/106 Fiddle Tunes - Byard Ray and Lynn Shaw
C-00033/107 Fiddler's Grove Psaltry Concert 1982 - Betty Smith
C-00033/108 Betty Smith - Tape 1
C-00033/109 Betty Smith - Tape 2
C-00033/110 Side 1: Mars Hill, Betty and Byard, Lou, Nick; Side 2: Berea
C-00033/111 Berea Festival October 28, 1978 Saturday Night, Carroll Best and Mack Snodderly, Phil Kazee
C-00033/112 Side 1: George Alexander - Ewell, England; Side 2: Cecil Sharp Symposium, Berea, Part II, October 29, 1977
C-00033/113 Berea Saturday concert
C-00033/114 Side 1: Berea concert; Side 2: Madison County High
C-00033/115 Berea 1974 Morning Workshop
C-00033/116 Side 1: Berea; Side 2: Jeanette Carter
C-00033/117 Maud Kilbourne, Berea, October, 1976

Commercial and Organizational Recordings:

Irish Rovers Sampler; Lunsford, I Shall Not Be Moved, Willow Tree
Beers Seasons of Peace Biograph [BLP 12633]; Beers Family Christmas Col ML 6335
Walkie in the Parlor (Folkways FA 2376)
"Fear Not Little Flock"
"Stove-side Memories"
Byard Ray Folk Festival, VIII, August 18, 1984, Brevard Music Center, Brevard, NC
Mountain Dance and Folk Festival 64th
Pearl: An Appalachian Voice
Graveyard Tales
Joe Bly Tells Funny Stories
Mountain Sweet Talk, Act I
Mountain Sweet Talk, Act II
Betty Smith June Appal Record
David Morris Autoharpist
David Morris in Concert
Mountain Valley Music
Recording to accompany the book Fiddlin' Georgia Crazy by Gene Wiggins

Box 30

Obray Ramsey - Banjo songs; Sampler - Jean Ritchie and Oscar Brand
Some Ballad Folks
Doug Wallin and the Crane Branch Dewdrops
A: Smoky Mt. Ballads - Bascom Lamar Lunsford, Music from S. Turkey Creek; B: Music from S. Turkey Creek, B. Lunsford, Red Parham, Geo. Pegram
Thistle and Shamrock, February, 1984, Songs of Ireland Gaeltacht
Echoes in the Dust 
Maori Myths and Legends, The Adventures of Maui
Rotorua International Maori Entertainers
Dario Domingues - Born in the Land of Wind
Gondwanaland/ Terra Incognita
Olive Dame Campbell - Library of Congress recording
Lish Hall. Recorded by Alan Lomax/ Interviewer Mrs. Campbell at JCCFS, August 11, 1941
Maud Long - Hymn (Calling Now for Me) [Library of Congress?]
Jack Tales - Maud Gentry Long, Library of Congress
LWO 23133, Tape #1, Maud Gentry Long Library of Congress Recordings
LWO 23133, Tape #2, Maud Gentry Long Library of Congress Recordings
LWO 23133, Tape #3, Maud Gentry Long Library of Congress Recordings
LWO 23133, Tape #4, Maud Gentry Long Library of Congress Recordings
LWO 23133, Tape #5, Maud Gentry Long Library of Congress Recordings
LWO 23133, Tape #6, Maud Gentry Long Library of Congress Recordings
LWO 23133, Tape #7, Maud Gentry Long Library of Congress Recordings
Copy of LWO 23133, Tape #1, Maud Gentry Long Library of Congress Recordings
Copy of LWO 23133, Tape #2, Maud Gentry Long Library of Congress Recordings
Copy of LWO 23133, Tape #3, Maud Gentry Long Library of Congress Recordings
Copy of LWO 23133, Tape #4, Maud Gentry Long Library of Congress Recordings
Copy of LWO 23133, Tape #5, Maud Gentry Long Library of Congress Recordings
Copy of LWO 23133, Tape #6, Maud Gentry Long Library of Congress Recordings
Copy of LWO 23133, Tape #7, Maud Gentry Long Library of Congress Recordings

Subseries 3.2: CDs, 1976-2017, n.d.

Box 31

CD #1, Betty Smith Interview with Maud Kilbourne, April 2, 1976
Copy 2 of CD #1, Betty Smith Interview with Maud Kilbourne, April 2, 1976
CD #4, Betty Smith Interview with Maud and John Kilbourne, March 12, 1978
CD #5, Betty Smith Interview with Maud and John Kilbourne, March 12, 1978
CD #1, Maude Kilbourne and Loyal Jones, July 14, 1976
CD #2, Maude Kilbourne and Loyal Jones, July 14, 1976
CD #2, Maude Kilbourne and Loyal Jones, July 4, 1976 [sic]
Maude Kilbourne, January, 1979
CD #3, Cecil Sharp Symposium and Buddy Moss, October 29, 1977
Bascom Lamar Lunsford, Ballads, Banjo Tunes, and Sacred Songs of Western North Carolina, Smithsonian/Folkways
"Meeting in the Air: Sacred Music of the Southern Appalachians," John C. Campbell Folk School
"Betty Smith: Songs Traditionally Sung in North Carolina"
"With You Again, Betty Smith"
"Betty Smith: Psaltry Concert"
"Betty Smith: A Bluff Mountain Christmas"
"Betty Smith: For My Friends of Song"
"Both Sides Then & Now: Betty Smith Sings Songs of Yesterday and Today"
"When Cecil Left the Mountains: Historic recordings of Appalachian singers and musicians, 1927-1955"
"The Answer to My Prayer," Joe Penland
"Back Roads to Cold Mountain," Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
"Phil and Gaye Johnson Live"
"Wings to Fly" by Roadside Theatre
"The Traditional Music of Beech Mountain, North Carolina, Vol. II, The Later Songs and Hymns"

Box 32

"Bill Taylor - Dulcimer"
"Nina Zanetti - Beside Still Waters"
"Dulcimer Jubilee! American Fiddle Tunes for Mountain Dulcimer"
"Balsam Gap - Just One More"
"Norman Kennedy - I Little Thocht My Love Wid Leave Me"
"New Orleans Sweet Emma and her Preservation Hall Jazz Band"
Southern Journey Earliest Times: Georgia Sea Islands Songs for Everyday Living," Vol. 13
"Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard: Pioneering Women of Bluegrass," Smithsonian Folkways
"Brook and George Buckner, So Far From Forgetting"
"Return to Cold Mountain: Songs Inspired by the Film"
"Bill Morris - Back to My Raisin', Old-time Songs and Ballads"
"Carol Mallett: Old and New from the Mountains"
"Melvin Wine - Hannah at the Springhouse"
"Gary Spence - Eddie Swann, Blue Ridge Gospel Guitar"
"Saturday Night Magic - Don Pedi and Friends"
"Travis and Trevor Stuart - Mountaineer"
"Masters of the Mountain Dulcimer"
"Old Timey Fiddle Music by the Legendary Fiddler Marcus Martin"
"The Skillet Lickers - Old Time Fiddle Tunes and Songs from North Georgia"
"The 100th Anniversary of Cecil Sharp's Visit to Western North Carolina Brought to Life by Betty Smith in Story and Song" (DVD)

Subseries 3.3: LPs, 1957-1990, n.d.

Box 33

"The Sounds From A to Z Plus the Diagraphs, etc."
"The Open Court Kindergarten Music Program," Record One
"The Open Court Kindergarten Music Program," Record Two
"The Open Court Kindergarten Music Program," Record Three
The Open Court Kindergarten Music Program, Record Four
"Appalachian Folks" 
"The Bristol Sessions: Historic Recordings from Bristol, Tennessee"
"The Carroll Best String Band: Pure Mountain Melodys"
"The Cedar Point String Band"
"Celebration! Old-Time Music at Berea"
"The Continuing Tradition, Volume 1: Ballads, A Folk-Legacy Sampler"
"Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: Zachariah"
"Sycamore Tea" - Dutch Cove Old Time String Band
"The Wheeler Man" - Billy Edd Wheeler
"Billy Edd Wheeler Sings His Favorite Original and Traditional Folk Songs"
"My Mountains, My Music Collected and Homemade by Billy Edd Wheeler"
"Folk Music of the United States, Anglo-American Songs and Ballads, edited by Duncan B.M. Emrich"
 "Folk Music of the United States, Versions and Variants of Barbara Allen from the Archive of Folk Song, Edited by Charles Seeger"
"Fiddler's Grove Ole Time Fiddler's and Bluegrass Festival, 1974, Vol. 5"
"Georgia Grassroots Music Festival"
"Sarah Ogan Gunning, 'The Girl of Constant Sorrow'"
"Cacklin' Hen: Albert Hash - Old Time Fiddler and the Whitetop Mountain Band"
"Folk Songs and Instrumental Music of the Southern Mountains"
"Folk Song America: A 20th Century Revival"

Box 34

"Smoky Mt. Ballads, Sung by Bascom Lamar Lunsford with Banjo"
"Homespun Tales: A Homecoming Collection"
"Deep in Tradition" - Thomas Hal [Tommy] Hunter
"Instrumental Music of the Southern Appalachians"
"Snuffy Jenkins and Pappy Sherrill, 33 Years of Pickin' and Pluckin'"
"Phil and Gaye Johnson, Cornbread and Sweetmilk"
"Arlene Kesterson Sings"
"Mountain Ballads and Old-Time Songs" - Bradley Kincaid
Lily May Ledford - "Banjo Pickin' Girl"
"Wade Mainer and the Mainer's Mountaineers, Sacred Songs Mountain Style"
"Dr. Ginger Blue, Timely Old Tunes" - Asa Martin and the Cumberland Range
Edsel Martin - "Appalachian Dulcimer Music"
"Old Timey Fiddle Music by the Legendary Fiddler Marcus Martin"
"Matthews' Southern Comfort Second Spring"
John Jacob Niles - "I Wonder as I Wander, Carols and Love Songs"
"Old-Time Classics, A Collection of Mountain Songs"
"Sunset Memories: The Perry County Music Makers, New Recordings by a Classic Tennessee String Band"
"Obray Ramsey Sings Folksongs from the Gateways to the Great Smokies"
"Obray Ramsey Sings Folksongs from the Three Laurels"
"Obray Ramsey Sings Jimmie Rodgers Favorites"
"Nat Reese - Just a Dream, Blues from Mercer County, West Virginia"
"Mountain Tales by Roadside Theater"
"American Revolutionary War Songs to Cultivate the Sensations of Freedom, Sung by Arthur F. Schrader"
"Liz and Lynn Shaw - Have Tunes Will Travel"
"The Skillet Lickers: Old Time Fiddle Tunes and Songs from North Georgia"
"Mountain Swing" - Luke Smathers String Band
"For My Friends of Song" - Betty Smith
"Songs Traditionally Sung in North Carolina" - Betty Smith
"The Hammered Dulcimer - How to Make It and Play It by Howard W. Mitchell"

Box 35

"Kilby Snow - Country Songs and Tunes with Autoharp" - Recorded, edited, and annotated by Mike Seeger
"God's Great Love" - Jim Southern and the Southern Sounds
"Ernest V. Stoneman, Vol. I 'With Family and Friends'"
"Ernest V. Stoneman, Vol. II 'With Family and Friends'"
"Cuttin' the Grass" - The Stonemans
"Old-Time Tunes of the South (Sutphin, Foreacre, and Dickens)" - The Stoneman Family
"My Stone Mountain Home" - Kate Peters Sturgill
"Road to Home" - Marion Sumner
"Traditional Country Classics, 1927-1929"
"The Carolina Tar Heels - Dock Walsh, Drake Walsh, and Garley Foster"
"Early Country Music - Fields Ward and his Buck Mountain Band"
"Harry and Jeanie West"
"Smoky Mountain Ballads - Harry and Jeanie West"
"White Lightnin' - File Under Rock" - Byard Ray and Obray Ramsey
"White Lightnin' - Fresh Air" - Byard Ray and Obray Ramsey
Cassette Inserts - Non-commercial Recordings
Album Books for Commercial Audiocassettes and CDs
Album Books for LPs, B-G
Album Books for LPs, H-M
Album Books for LPs, N-W