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Restrictions to Use

Tapes may not be duplicated or published without written consent of the collector and the next of kin of the performer.

Copyright Notice

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Barry Poss Collection #20021, Southern Folklife Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Barry Poss in August 1974 with subsequent addition from George Holt circa 1993 (Acc. 102530).

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Encoded by: Anne Wells, February 2016

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

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• Ballads, English--North Carolina.
• Banjo music.
• Carlton, Gaither, 1901-1972.
• Craven, Virgil, 1902-1980.
• Fiddle tunes--North Carolina.
• Folk music--North Carolina.
• Old-time music--North Carolina.
• Poss, Sharon.
• Songs, English--North Carolina.
• Watson, Doc.

• Jack Bernhardt Collection (#20061)
• Bob Carlin Collection (#20050)
• Alice Gerrard Collection (#20006)
• John T. Huddle Collection (#20280)
• Bill Phillips Collection (#20089)
• Southern Folklife Collection Field Notes (#30025)
• Sugar Hill Records Collection (#20442)

Barry Poss is former President and Chairman of Sugar Hill Records, a company he founded in 1978. Mr. Poss holds an Honours BA in sociology and psychology from York University, Toronto, Canada, receiving the Masters Award for Academic Achievement, and an MA and ABD from Duke University, Durham, NC, where he was a James B. Duke Fellow in the graduate school. Poss received an Americana Music Association Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006.

The Barry Poss Collection consists of 25 recordings, 1976-1979, on quarter inch open reel audio tape. The majority of the items are recordings, 1976-1977, of Virgil Craven (1902-1980), an Anglo-American old-time string band musician of Cedar Falls, N.C. The collection also includes two live recordings from 1975 of Gaither Carlton (1901-1972), Anglo-American old-time fiddler, banjo player and singer, and Arthel "Doc" Watson (1923-2012), Anglo-American guitarist, banjo player and singer, both from Deep Gap, Watauga County, N.C. On these recordings Carlton performs old-time tunes, old-time songs, and ballads on the fiddle or banjo and voice, while Watson performs two old-time songs on banjo and voice. Carlton is accompanied on some selections by Barry Poss on banjo and Sharon Poss on guitar.

• Audiotape (FT-20021/100-101, 4789-4810)