Archie Campbell keeps turning up at the Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound. Archie’s son Phil (who you may remember from “Malfunction Junction,” a song that played on local …
Newly Unearthed Tapes Document the First Great Bluegrass Festival
Back in April, WDVX marketing director Roger Harb and Rise and Shine host Freddy Smith brought an interesting guest to the Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound. Howard Friedman, …
Pioneering Local Journalist Carl Warner Opens His Archive (and Finds a New John Bean Recording)
One day in the mid-1960s, a college student in his 40s who had recently arrived from Atlanta turned up at WBIR and asked news director Jim Early for a job. …
The Singing Barber Reflects on a Life in Country and Gospel Music
In a small strip mall off Broadway, in Fountain City, between CVS and Walgreens, you can still get a $5 haircut. At Glenn’s Barber Shop, you can also get some …
Guy and Candie Carawan Document Generations of Music From Coal-Mining Communities
If you were to attend a coal-mining music workshop at the Highlander Center in the late 1970s or early ’80s, what kind of music do you think you would hear? …