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[Identification of item], in the Tom Carter and Chuck Rupert Oysler Collection #20030-z, Southern Folklife Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Processed by: Anne Wells, January 2017

Encoded by: Anne Wells, January 2017

Archival processing of the Tom Carter and Chuck Rupert Oysler Collection was made possible through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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• Blues (Music)--North Carolina.
• Carter, Thomas, 1949-
• Dance--North Carolina.
• Fuller, Blind Boy, 1907-1941.
• Guitar music (Blues)--North Carolina.
• Musicians--North Carolina.
• Oral history.
• Oysler, Rupert.
• Sound Recording Industry--United States.
• Trice, Willie, 1910-1976.

• Tom Carter Collection (#20028)

Tom Carter is an emeritus professor of architectural history in the University of Utah's College of Architecture and Planning. He has a degree in history from Brown University and studied folklore at both the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Indiana University. His chief research interest has been the building traditions of the western United States. His publications include Images of an American Land: Vernacular Architecture Studies in the West, and (with Betsy Cromley) the text Invitation to Vernacular Architecture: A Guide to the Study of Ordinary Buildings and Landscapes. (courtesy of the Department of Folklore at the University of Utah)

Chuck Rupert Oysler was born in Chicago, Ill. In 1970 he graduated from Brown University, where he met Tom Carter. Due to a shared interest in folk music, Oysler joined Carter on various trips while Carter was studying folklore. In 1973, Carter invited Oysler to join him to meet and record Willie Trice, an American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter, and record producer from North Carolina. Oysler now lives in Asheville, N.C., where he has continued his interest in folk music as a performer and teacher, with a primary focus on the harmonica. Oysler has also been the United States representative for the world's oldest harmonica maker, C. A. Seydel Sohne, since they reopened their sales in the United States in 2005.

The Tom Carter and Chuck Rupert Oysler Collection consists of two 1/4" open reel audio recordings, 1973, of Willie Trice (1910-1976), an American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and record producer from North Carolina. The two recordings, which were made by Tom Carter and Chuck Rupert Oysler in Orange County, N.C., feature Willie Trice on guitar and vocals, as well as in conversation. Topics discussed by Trice include his uncle, Luther Trice, "music making and the Devil," popular dances with African Americans in Orange County, learning guitar, meeting Blind Boy Fuller, and recording 78 rpm records in New York City. The collection also contains corresponding documentation, or tape logs, created by former SFC staff members. Documentation for each recording consists of brief descriptions, guitar tunings, song titles, and topics discussed by Willie Trice during the recording.

• Audiotapes (FT-20030/111-112)