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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the John Buinson Recording of Elbert Freeman and Nathaniel Ford #20122, Southern Folklife Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Acquisitions information unknown (Acc. 20200706.2).

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Processed by: Anne Wells and Meredith Kite, July 2020

Encoded by: Anne Wells, July 2020

Since August 2017, we have added ethnic and racial identities for individuals and families represented in collections. To determine identity, we rely on self-identification; other information supplied to the repository by collection creators or sources; public records, press accounts, and secondary sources; and contextual information in the collection materials. Omissions of ethnic and racial identities in finding aids created or updated after August 2017 are an indication of insufficient information to make an educated guess or an individual's preference for identity information to be excluded from description. When we have misidentified, please let us know at wilsonlibrary@unc.edu.

Archival processing of the John Buinson Recording of Elbert Freeman and Nathaniel Ford 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.

• African American musicians--Georgia.
• Blues (Music)--Georgia.
• Blues (Music)--Georgia.
• Buinson, John.
• Fiddle tunes--Georgia.
• Fiddlers--Georgia.
• Folk music--Georgia.
• Ford, Nathaniel, Approximately 1910-
• Freeman, Elbert, Approximately 1910-
• Georgia--Songs and music.
• Guitar music (Blues)--Georgia.
• Guitarists--Georgia.
• Music--Georgia.
• Musicians--Georgia.
• Old-time music--Georgia.

• Southern Folklife Collection Field Notes #30025

Live audio recording of Elbert Freeman (ca. 1910- ), African American fiddler from Georgia, and Nathaniel Ford (ca. 1910- ), African American guitarist from Georgia, performing blues and old-time music on fiddle and guitar. Recorded by John Buinson on 8 April 1967 in Monticello, Ga. The collection also contains supporting documentation prepared by former UNC library staff that includes a tracklisting and recording notes. Songs performed include "St. Louis Blues", "John Henry", "Old Hen Cackled", "Chattanooga Shoeshine Boy", "Worried Blues", "Put On the Old Gray Bonnet", and "Maria." Little is known about John Buinson and their connection to the open reel audio recording found in the collection. A note on the supporting documentation reads "obtained from John Buinson, North Georgia College."

• Audiotape (FT-113)
• Field Note (Folder 387), Southern Folklife Collection Field Notes #30025