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[Identification of item], in the Charles White and David Rhees Collection #20099, Southern Folklife Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Encoded by: Anne Wells, June 2016

Archival processing of the Charles White and David Rhees Collection was made possible through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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• African American musicians--North Carolina--Interviews.
• African Americans--Music.
• Anderson, Elester, 1925-1980.
• Blues (Music)--1971-1980.
• Blues (Music)--North Carolina.
• Blues (Music)--South Carolina.
• Blues musicians--North Carolina--Interviews.
• Folk music--Southern States.
• Guitar music (Blues)
• Harmonica music.
• Jackson, Arthur, 1911-1977.
• Lornell, Kip, 1953-
• Radio programs--North Carolina.
• Rhees, David J.
• Songs, English--Southern States.
• Southern States--Songs and music.
• White, Charles (Producer of Mostly blues)

• Southern Folklife Collection Field Notes (#30025)
• Jay Anania Collection (#20076)
• Tom Davenport Papers (#20025)
• Kip Lornell Collection (#20023)
• Peter Lowry Collection (#20017)

Charles T. White is a white musician and radio announcer who from 1974-1975 attended the University of North Carolina at Greensboro for music. Charles White attended the University of Miami from 1975-1978, and later became a talent manager, author, editor, and television and radio producer. David J. Rhees (1952- ) is a white historian and consultant who attended Guilford College in Greensboro, N.C. from 1970-1974. Rhees, who was born in Pasquotank County, N.C., received his M.A. in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1978. Rhees has worked at the American Philosophical Society, Bakken Museum, and the University of Minnesota.

The Charles White and David Rhees Collection consists of an open reel audio recording, 1972, of the college radio program, Mostly Blues, which aired on WQFS at Guilford College in Greensboro, N.C. Christopher "Kip" Lornell, a white folklorist and ethnomusicologist, hosted the program, while Charles White, a white musician, and David Rhees, a white Guilford College student, produced and recorded the program for broadcast on WQFS. The recording features performances by Peg Leg Sam (1911-1977), born Arthur Jackson, an African American harmonica player, singer, comedian, and medicine show entertainer from Jonesville, S.C.; and Elester Anderson (1925-1980), an African American blues guitarist and singer from Conetoe, Edgecombe County, N.C., on guitar, harmonica, and voice, with brief interviews.

• Audiotape (FT-911)
• Field notes (Folder 483), Southern Folklife Collection Field Notes #30025