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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 Lionel Kilberg Collection #20274, Southern Folklife Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Lionel Kilberg and Pamela Kilberg, 1997-1998 (Acc. 097173, 098055, 098058, 098068, 098084, 098085, 098086, 098087, 098090, 098091, 098112, 098113, 098114, 098126, 098136, 098137, 098214, 098248, 098088, 098093) and from Billy Faier in April 2016 (Acc. 102562).

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Processed by: Davia Webb, January 2023

Encoded by: Laura Smith

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• Bluegrass music.
• Folk music--United States.
• Folk musicians--United States.
• Folk songs, English--United States.
• Kilberg, Lionel.
• Shanty Boys.

Lionel S. Kilberg (1930-2008) was a songwriter and folk singer. A regular part of the Greenwich Village folk revival scene of mid-twentieth-century New York City, he wrote thousands of topical folk songs and started a bluegrass band called the Shanty Boys, who recorded one album for Elecktra Records. In the 1970s Kilberg recorded a series of albums called "Sociologically Singing" that included a collaboration with Kate Wolf and Don Coffin titled "We Walked By the Water."

The collection of folk singer and songwriter Lionel Kilberg (1930-2008) contains audio recordings, lyric sheets, poems, small paintings, sheet music, writings, 35mm color film slides, printed items, and pin-back buttons for his bluegrass band the Shanty Boys. The collection chiefly documents Kilberg's prolific songwriting and his album series from the early 1970s, "Sociologically Speaking." Both commercial and noncommercial audio recordings are on cassette tape and open-reel. Kilberg's writings contain information and stories about his songs and poems. Abstract paintings made by Kilberg are on loose sheets of paper. Printed items include newspaper clippings, newsletters, and scattered issues of folk music fanzines such as "Caravan" and Gardyloo."

• Image folders (PF-20274/1-2)
• Audio cassettes (FS-20274/5505-5507)