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Portraits from our Past:
FAMOUS MUSICIANS
Southwest Virginia Music

Exhibit Photo Sources
 


  • The Carter Family - Blue Ridge Institute, Ferrum, VA., Virginia Traditions: Native Virginia Ballads, Courtesy of the Country Music Foundation Library and Media Center, Nashville, TN.
     
  • Lesley Riddle - Blue Ridge Institute, Ferrum, VA., Virginia Traditions: Southwest Virginia Blues, Courtesy of Leslie Riddle.
     
  • Kate O'Neil Peters Sturgill, Sacred and Sentimental Songs Written and sung by The Cumberland Valley Girls.
     
  • Dock Boggs - Blue Ridge Institute, Ferrum, VA., Virginia Traditions: Southwest Virginia Blues, Courtesy Ed Ward.
     
  • Harry Gay - Blue Ridge Institute, Ferrum, VA., Virginia Traditions: Southwest Virginia Blues, courtesy Mrs. Ollie Gillespie.
     
  • Carl Martin - Blue Ridge Institute, Ferrum, Va., Virginia Traditions: Southwest Virginia Blues, Courtesy of National Council for the Traditional Arts.
     
  • The Stanley Brothers - Ralph Stanley and The Clinch Mountain Boys, Song and Memory Book, Volume 3, compiled by James A. Shelton.
     
  • 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, from The Carter Sisters and Mother Maybelle Song Folio No. 1, Lorrie Davis Bennett.
     
  • Jim and Jesse McReynolds - Jim and Jesse website (www.jimandjesse.com)
     
  • Dr. Ralph Stanley - Ralph Stanley and The Clinch Mountain Boys, Song and Memory Book, Volume 3, compiled by James A. Shelton, photo by Miles Ward.
     
  • Janette Carter - Living With Memories by Janette Carter
     
  • Ralph Stanley II - Ralph Stanley website (www.drralphstanley.com)
     
  • Blue Highway - Blue Highway website (www.bluehighway.com)
     

 

  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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