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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Phillip G. Collins Collection on Ruey "Curley" Collins #20334, Southern Folklife Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Phillip G. Collins in 2001 (Acc. 98822), 2005 (Acc. 99980), and 2009 (Acc. 99980A).

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This summary description was created in July 2018 to provide information about unprocessed materials in Wilson Special Collections Library.

Encoded by: Laura Smith, July 2018

Updated by Jodi Berkowitz, June 2019

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.

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• Banjo music.
• Collins, Curley
• Collins, Phillip G.
• Country music.
• Fiddlers.
• Guitar music.

Ruey "Curley" Collins (1915-1986) was a white banjo, guitar, and fiddle player from Catlettsburg, Ky. He performed regularly on radio programs and in other venues from the 1930s to the 1950s. He had a son, Phillip G. Collins.

The collection is composed of Phillip G. Collins' research files on his father Ruey "Curley" Collins. Research files contain photocopies of publicity photographs, newspaper clippings, articles, biographical information including a transcript of an interview with the elder Collins, chronologies of his music career, and lists of radio shows, television shows, movies, recordings, and honors. Also included is an audio cassette tape with a selection of Curley Collins' vocal and instrumental performances in the early 1980s and a 1983 interview with him.

• Audiocasette (FS-20334/1)