Folklorist Archie Green with musician Dorsey Dixon and an unidentified horse, East Rockingham, North Carolina, 1962. Green was recording Dixon’s Babies in the Mill album at the time.
From the Archie Green Collection.
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Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins performing at San Quentin State Prison, February 1969.
George “Goober” Lindsey, promoting his 1968 album “Goober Sings” at KBBQ radio in Burbank, California. He’s flanked by KBBQ music director Larry Scott, Don Grierson of Capitol Records, and disc jockeys Bob Jackson and Hugh Jarrett. One of 56 KBBQ press release photographs found in the Southern Folklife Collection Radio and Television Files.
Tommy Carlisle, the son of country-blues singer Cliff Carlisle, modelling his cowboy costume, mid-1930s.
Thelonious Monk, photographed by Robert Bolton at the Atlanta Jazz Festival, May 1966. From the Robert Bolton Collection.
Fiddler Blind Alfred Reed (center) with his West Virginia Nite Owls. Undated photograph, ca. late 1920s. From the Guthrie T. Meade Collection.
Singer and coal miner Nimrod Workman, performing at the 1985 Tennessee Grassroots Days festival in Nashville. Photo by David Hildebrand, from the Southern Folk Cultural Revival Project Collection.
Texas blues singer Mance Lipscomb at the 1970 Beloit Blues Festival, “showing off guitar set into dentures”. From the Archie Green Collection.
