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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Thomas Goldsmith Collection #20474, Southern Folklife Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Thomas Goldsmith of Raleigh, N.C., in August 2012 (Acc. 101643) and January 2018 (Acc. 103310).

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Processed by: Anne Wells, October 2017

Encoded by: Anne Wells, October 2017

Updated by: Laura Hart, Anne Wells, and Emma Evans, April 2018

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

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• Atkins, Chet.
• Bluegrass Reader.
• Bluegrass music.
• Bluegrass musicians--United States.
• Country music.
• Country musicians--United States.
• Fleck, Béla, 1958-
• Folk music--United States.
• Folk musicians--United States.
• Goldsmith, Thomas, 1952-
• Jackson, Alan, 1958-
• Krauss, Alison, 1971-
• Marshall, Mike, 1957-
• Meyer, Edgar (Bassist)
• Monroe, Bill, 1911-1996.
• Wynette, Tammy.
• Yearwood, Trisha.

Journalist Thomas Goldsmith is the generations reporter for the NC Health News in Raleigh, N.C. Previous positions include Wake County editor for the Raleigh (N.C.) News and Observer and assistant managing editor for local news for the Nashville (Tenn.) Tennessean. Goldsmith edited the The Bluegrass Reader, which was published in 2004 by the University of Illinois Press. He is also a record producer, musician, singer, and songwriter.

Audiovisual materials and papers compiled by journalist and musician, Thomas Goldsmith. Audiovisual materials consist mostly of audio interviews conducted by Goldsmith with prominent bluegrass, folk, and country musicians, including Chet Atkins, Alan Jackson, Alison Krauss, Bill Monroe, Tammy Wynette, and Trisha Yearwood. Papers consist of scattered subject files, clippings, ephemera, and printed materials featuring articles by Goldsmith. Subject files include materials related to bluegrass-country singer, Alison Krauss, and materials related to Goldsmith's liner notes for the 1997 Edgar Meyer, Bela Fleck, and Mike Marshall release, Uncommon Ritual. Printed materials include issues of Acoustic Guitar, Bluegrass Unlimited, Country, The Journal of Country Music, and a copy of the publication, Flatt on Victor Plus More.

The Addition of January 2018 contains audiovisual materials compiled by Thomas Goldsmith, including audio and video recordings of interviews, commercially produced live recordings, promotional releases, and television programs featuring prominent country, pop, and rock musicians. Audio recordings are on audiocassette, while video recordings are on VHS. The Addition also contains papers, including artist files, subject files, and working files related to the The Bluegrass Reader publication. Artist and subject files, much of which appears to date from Goldsmith's time at the Nashville Tennesseean, contain transcripts of interviews with musicians, reporter notebooks, publicity photographs, press clippings, and printed materials. The Bluegrass Reader materials consist of correspondence with authors and publishers, reprints and copies of articles about bluegrass music and musicians, and drafts of text written by Goldsmith for the publication.

• Audiocassettes (FS-20474/1-48)
• Oversize Paper Folder (OPF-20474/1)
• Videotape (VT-20474/1-13)