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[Identification of item], in the Pamela Grundy Collection #20094-z, Southern Folklife Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Pamela Grundy of Charlotte, N.C., in October 1994 (Acc. 102656).

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Encoded by: Anne Wells, October 2016

Archival processing of the Pamela Grundy Collection was made possible through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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• Country music.
• Country musicians.
• Folk music.
• Grundy, Pamela.
• J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers.
• Jenkins, Snuffy, 1908-1990.
• Morris, Wiley, 1919-1990.
• Morris, Zeke, 1916-1999.
• Oral history.
• Popular music--Southern States.
• Radio programs.
• Radio--History.
• Sherrill, Pappy, 1915-2001.
• Sons of the Mountaineers.

Pamela Grundy, Ph.D., is an independent historian and author of the award-winning book, Learning to Win: Sports, Education, and Social Change in Twentieth-Century North Carolina. She is coordinator of the Southern Oral History Program's "Listening for a Change" project documenting race and desegregation at West Charlotte High School. She is also a lecturer in history at Davidson College. She holds a doctorate in history from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

3 interviews conducted by author and historian, Pamela Grundy, for her research project on the Crazy Water Crystals Company, who from 1933 to 1937 sponsored radio programs featuring many North Carolina and South Carolina musicians. Recordings are on 4 audiocassettes. Interviewees featured on the audio recordings include Zeke Morris, a musician who played for the J.E. Mainer's Crazy Mountaineers and later Wade Mainer's Sons of the Mountaineers, and his brother, Wiley Morris, who performed with Zeke on the radio for many years. Also included is an interview with Homer "Pappy" Sherril, who was born in Hickory, N.C. and is best known for his long collaboration with banjoist Snuffy Jenkins on WIS in Columbia, S.C. The collection also contains corresponding transcripts for the 3 interviews.

• Audiocassettes (FS-20094/1185-1888)