Sidney Robertson Cowell recordings: Locks and Bolts, Dusenberry
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: FW-ASCH-7RR-0812
label: Date/Time and Place of an Event Note
content: Recorded in: North Carolina, Wisconsin, Missouri, United States, Arkansas.
label: General
content: REEL C31; CDR copy- These recordings were made to aluminum discs. Another set resides in the L:ibrary of Congress. FW-ASCH-7RR-0812 through FW-ASCH-7RR-0816 were among a large number of tapes (at least 35) provided to Moe by Sidney Robertson Cowell, who produced several Folkways albums and whose correspondence with Moe and Folkways fills three folders in the Archives Correspondence Files. She recorded many traditional folksingers in the 1930's and most of the songs on these tapes are dubs of 78's in our Archives and/or in the Archive of Folk Culture in the Library of Congress. Despite having reviewed her correspondence in the Archives Correspondence Files, I couldn't locate anything regarding the "why and wherefore" of the many such tapes she sent to Moe. Regarding the current five tapes, the first four contain recordings made primarily in 1936 through1939 by Ms. Cowell, in the southern U.S.; some were made by her in Wisconsin, Illinois and California. Four songs on -0815 were originally recorded in 1909 in England, by Percy Grainger. The fifth tape was originally recorded by Maud Karpeles in Appalachia in 1950. FW-ASCH-7RR-0812 includes Emma Dusenbury (Mena, AR), Charles Spencer (Crandon, WI), Ben and David Rice (Springfield, MO), Cinderella Kinnaird (Willow Springs, MO), Bascom Lamar Lunsford (Leicester, NC), and R. R. Denoon (Springfield, MO). Except for Bascom Lamar Lunsford, who accompanies himself on the banjo, all sing unaccompanied
name: label: Recorder
content: Cowell, Sidney Robertson.
label: Artist
content: Dusenbury, Emma, 1862-1941
label: Artist
content: Lunsford, Bascom Lamar, 1882-1973
label: Artist
content: Denoon, R.R., d. 1971
label: Artist
content: Spencer, Charles, b. 1874
label: Artist
content: Rice, Ben
label: Artist
content: Rice, David
label: Collection Creator
content: Asch, Moses
label: Collection Creator
content: Distler, Marian, 1919-1964
label: Collection Creator
content: Folkways Records
place: label: Place
content: Arkansas
label: Place
content: United States
label: Place
content: Missouri
label: Place
content: Wisconsin
label: Place
content: North Carolina
label: Place
content: Mena (Ark.)
label: Place
content: Crandon (Wis.)
label: Place
content: Springfield (Mo.)
topic: label: Topic
content: Folk songs -- United States
creator: label: Recorder
content: Cowell, Sidney Robertson.
label: Artist
content: Dusenbury, Emma, 1862-1941
label: Artist
content: Lunsford, Bascom Lamar, 1882-1973
label: Artist
content: Denoon, R.R., d. 1971
label: Artist
content: Spencer, Charles, b. 1874
label: Artist
content: Rice, Ben
label: Artist
content: Rice, David
culture: label: Culture
content: Americans
label: Culture
content: Anglo-American
setName: label: See more items in
content: Moses and Frances Asch Collection
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content: Moses and Frances Asch Collection / Series 9: Audio Recordings / Open Reel Tapes
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Sound recording (sound-tape reel, analog, 7 in.)
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
identifier: label: Identifier
content: CFCH.ASCH, Item FW-ASCH-7RR-0812
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Contents
content: Emma Dusenberry--Locks and bolts--Long before the rising sun; Charles Spencer--Locks and bolts--I am a man of pleasure; Ben Rice--Pretty Polly--One morning in may; David Rice--As I walked out one morning--I love you well; Ben Rice--Locks and bolts--Unconstant lover; Cinderella Kinnard--Pretty Laura (Pretty Saro)--One field mount spring (Springfield Mountain); Bascom Lamar Lunsford--Goodbye, my bonnie blue eyes; My home's across the Smoky Mountains; R.R. Denoon--Rich squire; Emma Dusenberry--One morning in May