Portraits from our Past:
FAMOUS MUSICIANS
Southwest Virginia Music

Exhibit Material Resources
 

• The Carter Family - Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone? by Mark Zwonitzer with Charles Hirshberg, Simon and Schuster, New York, Living With Memories by Janette Carter, websites: www.birthplaceofcountrymusic.org), (www.southernmusic.net), (www.scarlet.org/carter/index.html).
   
• Lesley Riddle - Blue Ridge Institute, Ferrum, VA., Virginia Traditions: Southwest Virginia Blues.
   
• Kate O'Neil Peters Sturgill, Sacred and Sentimental Songs Written and sung by The Cumberland Valley Girls, Blue Ridge Institute, Ferrum, VA., Virginia Traditions: Ballads From British Tradition, website (www.birthplaceofcountrymusic.org).
   
• Dock Boggs - Blue Ridge Institute, Ferrum, VA., Virginia Traditions: Southwest Virginia Blues, websites (www.birthplaceofcountrymusic.org), (www.folkways.si.edu).
   
• Carl Martin - Blue Ridge Institute, Ferrum, Va., Virginia Traditions: Southwest Virginia Blues, Living Blues by Bruce Kaplan and Pete Welding.
   
• The Stanley Brothers - Ralph Stanley and The Clinch Mountain Boys, Song and Memory Book, Volume 3, compiled by James A. Shelton. Websites, (www.birthplaceofcountrymusic.org), (Bluegrasslyrics.com) (www.drralphstanley.com), (www.thepressoffice.net).
   
• Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters - Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone? by Mark Zwonitzer with Charles Hirshberg, Simon and Schuster, New York, Living With Memories by Janette Carter, websites: (www.birthplaceofcountrymusic.org), (www.southernmusic.net).
   
• Jim and Jesse McReynolds - Jim and Jesse website (www.jimandjesse.com), (www.opry.com), (www.birthplaceofcountrymusic.org), (Bluegrasslyrics.com), (www.drralphstanley.com).
   
• Dr. Ralph Stanley - Ralph Stanley and The Clinch Mountain Boys, Song and Memory Book, Volume 3, compiled by James A. Shelton, websites: (www.RollingStone.com), (www.birthplaceofcountrymusic.org), (www.bluegrasslyrics.com), (www.drralphstanley.com).
   
• Janette Carter - Will you Miss Me When I'm Gone? by Mark Zwonitzer with Charles Hirshberg, Simon and Schuster, New York, Living With Memories by Janette Carter, website: (www.birthplaceofcountrymusic.org).
   
• Ralph Stanley II - Ralph Stanley website (www.drralphstanley.com)
   
• Blue Highway - Blue Highway website (www.bluehighway.com), (www.bluegrassmusic.com), (www.ibma.com).

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The Carter Family (Music: 1920's-1940's)		Lesley Riddle (Music: 1920's-1940's)
Dock Boggs (Music: 1920's-1960's)		Kate O'Neil Peters Sturgill (Music: 1930's-1970's)
Harry Gay and Steve Tatar (Music: 1920's-1930's)		Carl Martin (Music: 1920's-1960's)
Spike Carson (Music: 1940's-1950's)		The Stanley Brothers (Music: 1940's-1960's)
Mother Maybelle (Music: 1940's-1970's)		Jim and Jesse McReynolds (Music: 1940's-1990's)
Dr. Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys Music: 1940's-Present)		Janette Carter (Music: 1930's-Present)
Ralph Stanley II Music: 1990's-Present)		Blue Highway Music: 1990's - Present
EXHIBIT PHOTO SOURCES		EXHIBIT MATERIAL SOURCES

 

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