Indexed works
Works about or by Tommy Jarrell. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it. Background reading appears below.
North Carolina Folklore Broadcast Collection, 1976.
Patterson, Daniel W. (Daniel Watkins), 1928- · 1976
Broadcast recordings of North Carolina folk music assembled in 1976 by the folklorist Daniel W. Patterson, 105 items in the Southern Folklife Collection at UNC, collection 20105. Topics include old-time and bluegrass playing, fiddle tunes, gospel and African American music, and Primitive Baptist hymn singing, with Tommy Jarrell, Dellie Norton and Cas Wallin named. The programs tie to WUNC in Chapel Hill and to the Festival for the Eno.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Jarrell, Tommy, 1901-1985.
Winter Folk Festival recordings, 1976
Winter Folk Festival (1976 January 20-24 : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) · 1976
Recordings made at the Winter Folk Festival, which ran at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from January 20 to 24, 1976, part of the Southern Folklife Collection at UNC, collection 70088. Performers and interviewees include Tommy Jarrell, Fred Cockerham, Hazel Dickens, Alice Gerrard, Mike Seeger, John Cephas, Howard Armstrong and the Red Clay Ramblers. Ballads, banjo and fiddle tunes, blues, Cajun music and shape note singing are covered.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Jarrell, Tommy, 1901-1985.
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