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Size | 8.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 1,320 items) |
Abstract | Billy Faier of Woodstock, N.Y., taught himself to play the five-string banjo and was later involved in the folk music revival as a performer, songwriter, observer, writer, and radio disc jockey. Faier was a prominent member of New York City's Washington Square folk scene in the late 1940s and of the folk music scene on both coasts during the 1950s and 1960s. The collection documents the personal and professional activities of Billy Faier. There are also more general materials collected and generated by Faier about the folk music revival, the counter-culture movement, and other interests. Included are correspondence, writings, artwork, and other materials relating to Faier's work with Pete Seeger; song writing and theatrical performances; music; Woodstock, N.Y.; juggling; games; bicycling; hitchhiking; and alternative lifestyles in general. Audio recordings include live and studio performances of Faier and other musicians; interviews with Aunt Molly Jackson and Frank and Ann Warner; recordings of Faier's radio shows; documentation of social and political events; and dubs from old records. |
Creator | Faier, Billy. |
Curatorial Unit | Southern Folklife Collection |
Language | English. |
Processed by: Elizabeth Matson, January 2004
Encoded by: Elizabeth Matson, January 2004
Updated by: Anne Wells, July 2016; Anne Wells, Emma Evans, and Patrick Cullom, July 2019; Anne Wells, Clare Carlson, and Jessica Venlet, October 2019
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Billy Faier was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on 21 December 1930. He moved to Woodstock, N.Y., with his family in 1944 at age thirteen. Faier had his first contact with folk music in Woodstock and taught himself to play the five-string banjo. Dropping out of high school to pursue his music, Faier traveled with Ramblin' Jack Elliott across the country and was a prominent member of New York City's Washington Square folk scene in the late 1940s. In 1957 and 1958, Faier recorded Art of the Five String Banjo and Travelin' Man for Riverside. Involved with the folk music revival scene on both coasts during the 1950s and 1960s, Billy Faier worked in night clubs, wrote songs, transcribed music for Pete Seeger, performed and taught banjo, performed as an on-stage musician in theater productions in New York City, hosted radio shows on Berkeley's KPFA and New York City's WBAI, and wrote for and eventually edited Caravan: Folk Music Magazine.
Despite time spent in New York and Berkeley, Faier's home base for a large part of his life has been the town of Woodstock and the surrounding area where he built his home in Lake Hill, N.Y., and became an active community member and renowned as a local street musician. From this home base, his music career experienced a revival in the 1980s with performances at folk music festivals; a self-produced recording, Banjos, Birdsongs, and Mother Earth; and a self-produced re-release of his earlier albums on cassette.
Throughout his life, Faier has opted for a non-mainstream, alternative lifestyle. Besides song writing and playing banjo and guitar, Faier's eclectic interests include juggling, traveling, hitchhiking, Rubik's Cube, the game of Go, sailing, folklore, and writing.
Back to TopThe collection documents the life of Billy Faier as a musician, songwriter, and player of the five-string banjo and his role as observer, writer, and documenter of culture, particularly of the folk music revival and the counter-culture. The collection reflects both Faier's professional and personal experiences and his eclectic interests and collections. It contains material relating not only to Faier but to the events, ideas, and interests of an era and generation as well.
Correspondence, 1959-2003, includes letters from Faier's girlfriends, friends, fans, fellow musicians, tenants, and individuals he met while traveling and performing. It documents Faier's music career encompassing song writing, including transcription work for Pete Seeger's The Goofing-Off Suite and Faier's published songbooks; roles as an on-stage musician in theatrical performances, including The Unsinkable Molly Brown on Broadway; prose writings about music and the folk revival; and promotional and business materials, including programs, publicity photographs, and mail order and sales records for his self-produced tapes. Audio recordings include live and studio performances of Faier and other musicians; interviews with Aunt Molly Jackson, Frank Warner, and Ann Warner; Faier's radio shows; social and political events; and dubs from old records. Material on Faier's general interests and collections includes the folk music revival, including an interview with Faier by Ronald D. Cohen; collected writings and artwork by others; games, such as Rubik's Cube and Go; fanzines, including Gigline, Rainbow Family of Living Light, and The Realist; and hypnosis and Silva Mind Control. Faier's skills and interests are reflected in material on juglature, a method he invented of transcribing juggling moves, classes he taught, and multiple drafts of two juggling books. Faier's active involvement in his most consistent home community, as well as personal material relating to his house, sailing vessel, and legal matters, are included in the Woodstock, N.Y., files. Also included are articles on traveling with a bicycle across the country, hitchhiking as a means of alleviating the energy crisis, and a personal journal from 1974.
The Addition of April 2016 contains papers, photographs, and audiovisual materials related to Billy Faier's music career, general interests, juggling hobby, and home base of Woodstock, N.Y. Papers consist of personal correspondence, lyrics, sheet music, banjo tabs, business correspondence related to compact disc (CD) and tab orders, promotional materials, tape and song indexes compiled by Faier, printed materials and clippings, juggling notes and juglature drawings, and writings by Faier, including a copy of his 2003 manuscript, Whorehouse Fantasies. Faier's correspondents include girlfriends, friends, fans, and fellow musicians, including Martin Gardener, Frank Proffitt, and Pete Seeger. Photographs depict music performances, music festivals, including Woodstock, as well as Faier's personal life. The addition also contains Faier's Rubik's Cubes, oversize materials, including a one-page scrapbook, scattered printed materials, and a sketchbook containing drawings by Faier. Audiovisual materials consist of audio recordings of live performances, demos, radio programs, and dubbed albums by Faier and others; videotapes of Faier, including home movies, interviews, live performances, and footage of family reunions; and related documentation, such as notes and memos, found with the audiovisual materials. Notable artists found on the recordings include Moses Ash, Bob Dylan, Albert Grossman, John Herald, and Pete Seeger. Audio recordings are on audiocassette and 1/4" open reel, while videotapes are on VHS and Betacam.
Back to TopCorrespondence consists largely of letters to Billy Faier with some carbon copies of Faier's letters interspersed. The period covered spans from 1959 to 2003, with the bulk of the material dating from 1980 to 1999. Letters reflect not only the relationships and events of Faier's life, but also provide something of a portrait of a generation for those who were involved in and influenced by the folk music revival, counter-culture, and alternative lifestyles. While it is often difficult to make clear distinctions between personal, fan, and business correspondence as friends help arrange gigs, sponsors and fans become friends, fans and fellow musicians become correspondents, and fans offer business propositions, this series focuses on personal correspondence. See Series 2. Music Career for correspondence directly related to business matters. Faier's correspondents include girlfriends, friends, fans, fellow musicians, tenants, and individuals he met while traveling and performing, including hitchhikers he picked up. Correspondents of both short-term and long-term duration are included. Correspondence of note, either for its duration or the correspondent's relationship to Billy Faier, is separated out from the general correspondence and includes: Gloria "Cosmo" Charles (whose correspondence with Faier dates from the 1970s), Gerry Faier (Faier's mother), Christopher Nicklaus Wand (Faier's son), and Landlord-Tenant Correspondence (for Faier's Lake Hill, N.Y., house, which he often rented when he traveled).
Gloria "Cosmo" Charles is a former girlfriend who traveled with Faier to the west coast in the 1970s. She retained a strong and enduring friendship with Faier as evidenced through their correspondence, which dates from the late 1970s. Additional references to Cosmo Charles in the collection can be found in Other Writings and Audio Recordings.
Folder 1 |
Charles, Gloria "Cosmo" |
Christopher Nicklaus Wand is Billy Faier's son with Barbara Wand. He started his correspondence with his father as a young man.
Folder 3 |
Wand, Christopher, Nicklaus |
Billy Faier periodically rented out his house in Lake Hill, N.Y., when he went on extended travel for music performances and pleasure. Correspondence relating to these rental transactions is included here.
Folder 4 |
Landlord-Tenant Correspondence |
Correspondents include girlfriends, friends, fans, fellow musicians, and individuals Faier met while traveling or performing. The letters reflect not only the relationships and events of Billy Faier's life but provide something of a portrait of a generation for those who were involved in and influenced by the folk music revival and alternative lifestyles. While it is often difficult to make clear distinctions between personal, fan, and business correspondence as friends help arrange gigs, sponsors and fans become friends, fans and fellow musicians become correspondents, and fans offer business propositions, this series focuses on personal correspondence.
Folder 5 |
1959 |
Folder 6 |
1964 |
Folder 7 |
1977-1979 |
Folder 8 |
1980-1984 |
Folder 9 |
1985-1989 |
Folder 10 |
1990-1994 |
Folder 11 |
1995-1999 |
Folder 12 |
2000-2003 |
Folder 13 |
Undated |
The creative aspects of Billy Faier's accomplishments as a musician are highlighted here in his song writing, theater performances, and music writing. The business aspects can be found in the promotional photographs, posters, business correspondence and writing, contracts, and Winnipeg Folk Festival material. Of particular note are the music transcription and notation work Faier did for Pete Seeger for The Goofing-Off Suite and Faier's involvement with Caravan: Folk Music Magazine. Additional material relating to Billy Faier's career as a musician and the folk music revival can be found in Series 3. Audio Recordings and Series 4.1. Folk Music Revival.
Songs written, composed, arranged, or transcribed by Billy Faier, as well as compositions by other composers that Faier collected. Included are complete scores of Faier's own songs, the first and second edition folios of banjo music selections from his album The Art of the Five String Banjo, and commercially published banjo music scores. Of particular note is music transcription and notation work Faier did for Pete Seeger, specifically for The Goofing-Off Suite.
Songs written, composed, or arranged by Billy Faier. Though much of the general material is unsigned, the songs in this series are presumed to be composed, arranged, or transcribed by Faier. Faier's work includes: arrangements and adaptations of other composers' songs, handwritten and typewritten lyrics, music in various stages of composition, and completed songs with lyrics accompanied by music notation organized by individual song titles. Compositions that clearly appear to have different authorship are included in 2.1.4. Collected Song Writing.
In the 1950s, Billy Faier did music transcription and notation work for Pete Seeger, particularly for The Goofing-Off Suite. Along with the music transcription, this series incorporates, as originally received, their correspondence on the project, which includes reference to the McCarthy trials Seeger was dealing with at the time. See also FT-11344 for a tape of music by Pete Seeger that Faier used for his transcription project.
Folder 41 |
Music Transcription for Pete Seeger |
Copies of Billy Faier's first and second edition folios of banjo music selections from his album The Art of the Five String Banjo.
Folder 42 |
Banjo Selections from The Art of the Five String Banjo |
Commercially published banjo music scores were collected by Billy Faier, as well as handwritten and typewritten lyrics and music compositions by other musicians and friends.
Folder 43 |
Collected Lyrics |
Folder 44 |
Collected Music |
Folder 45 |
Collected Banjo Songbooks |
In addition to composing and performing as an individual musician, Billy Faier appeared in a number of theatrical productions, often as an on-stage musician. Material relating to these productions includes newspaper reviews, photographs, scripts, correspondence, and playbills. Faier played the part of Jib in A Christmas Story, a one-act play by Monica Beebe, which appears to have been a community production, possibly in Woodstock, N.Y. Faier was an on-stage musician in the 1963 production of In White America by Martin B. Duberman, which was performed at the Sheridan Square Playhouse in New York City, and The Unsinkable Molly Brown by Meredith Willson, a Broadway show in 1960 starring Tammy Grimes.
Billy Faier's writings about music and the folk revival date from 1958 to 1968 and 1997. Much of the earlier material comes from his involvement with Caravan: Folk Music Magazine. This popular fanzine also involved Lee Shaw, Lee Haring, and Roger D. Abrahams, among others. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Faier was first a contributor and assistant editor and then editor-in-chief of the magazine. Full issues of the magazine are in the Southern Folklife Collection's serial collection. Faier also wrote for Gardyloo, Folk Music Magazine, and The Week. His writings include letters to the editor, reports and comments on the folk music scene, record reviews, a report on the 1958 December meeting of the American Folklore Society, and an article on "Style and the Phonograph Record." In 1997, Grant Alden wrote a plea for the re-discovery of Billy Faier in the letters section of No Depression. He subsequently corresponded with Faier with the result of the publication of Faier's memories of Townes Van Zant in the letters section of the magazine.
Folder 50 |
Music Writing, 1958-1968 |
Folder 51 |
No Depression, 1997 |
Material used to promote or document Billy Faier's career as a musician, including clippings and reviews, programs from performances and festivals, publicity photographs, posters and fliers, and event and biographical promotion pieces.
Clippings and reviews include material that features, includes, or mentions Billy Faier. Concert and album reviews and announcements are particularly prominent. There are also newspaper and fanzine articles featuring Faier.
Folder 52 |
Clippings and Reviews |
Programs from performances and festivals in which Billy Faier participated.
Folder 53 |
Performance and Festival Programs |
Photographs of Billy Faier taken on stage or for publicity purposes. Though undated, most appear to derive from Faier's early career, probably the late 1950s or early 1960s. The later career photographs probably date from the 1980s.
Posters and fliers promoting performances and recordings by Billy Faier and others.
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-20380/2 |
Oversized Posters and Fliers |
Folder 54 |
Posters and Fliers |
Event and biographical promotion pieces presumed to have been written by Billy Faier. Also included are liner notes to Faier's albums, Travelin' Man and The Beast of Billy Faier.
Folder 55 |
Promotional Writing |
Folder 56 |
Album Liner Notes |
Business material focuses on the contractual and monetary aspects of Billy Faier's work as a musician. Included are business letters, particularly relating to Faier's recording and performing arrangements, 1957-1992; mail order correspondence and sales records for his self-produced tapes, Banjos, Birdsong, and Mother Earth and The Art of the Five String Banjo/Travelin' Man, 1987-2002; contracts for recordings, song publication, transfer of ownership of Caravan: Folk Music Magazine, and performances; and material relating to being hired for and performing at the 1981 Winnipeg Folk Festival.
Business correspondence directly relating to Faier's work as a musician, especially with regards to recording and performing arrangements. The correspondence ranges from 1957 to 1992 with the bulk from the 1980s. Included is correspondence with record producers, festival organizers, BMI, and tape producers. Correspondence from fans ordering tapes by mail order directly from Faier is filed separately in 2.5.2. Mail Orders and Sales Records of Tapes.
Folder 57 |
Business Correspondence |
In 1987, Billy Faier self-produced a new tape, Banjos, Birdsong, and Mother Earth. A few years later, in 1990, Faier re-released on one tape the two albums he had made in 1958 for Riverside, The Art of the Five String Banjo and Travelin' Man. These tapes were only available by mail order directly from Faier. This series includes the mail order correspondence for these tapes, 1987-2002, and Faier's record of sales for Banjos, Birdsongs, and Mother Earth until, as he wrote in the front of his sales record book, he stopped keeping records.
Folder 58 |
Mail Orders |
Folder 59 |
Sales Records |
Contracts are primarily Billy Faier's recording contracts, but also includes song publication, transfer of ownership of Caravan: Folk Music Magazine, and performance contracts.
Folder 60 |
Contracts |
Material relating to the 1981 Winnipeg Folk Festival, which Faier attended as a featured performer. It provides a fairly complete overview of one of Faier's performance gigs through the span of material, which includes the early phone messages, contract, travel arrangements, performance schedule, and festival information for performers. Faier's participation in the Winnipeg Folk Festival was part of a revival of his performance and recording career that he initiated in the 1980s. The Winnipeg Folk Festival was one stop on a tour of festivals and concerts, which also included the Vancouver Folk Music Festival and Kerrville Folk Festival. Promotional performer buttons for these festivals have been transferred to the North Carolina Collection Gallery. Additional material related to this tour can be found in Series 1. Correspondence, especially folders 1 and 8, and Series 7. Other Writings.
Museum Item MU-20380/1-4
MU-20380/1MU-20380/2MU-20380/3MU-20380/4 |
Promotional Buttons |
Folder 61 |
Winnipeg Folk Festival, 1981 |
Recordings made by and of Billy Faier, as well as recordings collected by him. Some of the recordings in this series were previously part of the Billy Faier Archives compiled by Mitchell Blank and Jeff Friedman and have previously been given identification numbers (BF-AT-###). The original archive order has been only partially maintained as the Billy Faier Archives was not received in its entirety and other, previously unarchived, tapes are also included in the collection. However, previous identification numbers are noted in parentheses where applicable and can be matched to the archive notes made by Blank and Friedman. Written documentation, including the previous archive notes and photocopies of the boxes, is available for most of the recordings. Documentation includes glosses by Faier identifying recordings and noting particularly good versions of his songs both at the time of recording and at a later date.
Recordings on open reel tapes and acetate discs of Billy Faier and/or his songs recorded in concert, in the studio, or in his home, mostly as a solo performer. Includes 1990 professional remasters of earlier 1957 and 1958 Riverside Long Playing Record albums Travelin' Man and The Art of the Five String Banjo and a professional master recording of Banjos, Birdsong, and Mother Earth, as well as the commercial cassettes Billy Faier produced of these titles.
Field notes for FT-20380/11303-11414 and FS-20380/6904-6905 reside in Folders 977 and 372 within the Southern Folklife Collection Field Notes Collection (#30025).
Recordings featuring musicians other than Billy Faier, as well as interviews and other current events. Faier is included on some of these recordings as interviewer or interviewee, playing in a band or for other musicians, or, notably, as a lecturer. However, he is not featured as a solo musician in any of these recordings. Of particular interest are recordings of Pete Seeger playing for Faier so that he could transcribe The Goofing Off Suite, interviews with Aunt Molly Jackson, Frank Warner and Ann Warner, and Archie Green, and several "sign of the times" recordings from the 1960s and 1970s featuring demonstrations, political candidates, and talking to a friend while she's tripping.
Field notes for FT-20380/11303-11414 reside in Folder 977 within the Southern Folklife Collection Field Notes Collection (#30025).
Billy Faier worked as a disc jockey presenting radio programs featuring folk music on several radio stations, including Berkeley's KPFA and New York City's WBAI. Open reel recordings of some of those radio shows, most notably "The Midnight Special" radio show on WBAI, are included, as well as an acetate recording of Dillybean Radio Spots.
Field notes for FT-20380/11303-11414 reside in Folder 977 within the Southern Folklife Collection Field Notes Collection (#30025).
SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20380/11379 |
Radio Show, exact date and location unknown. Contributions to the Delinquency of Minor Poetry by Guy Wehham, 1957. Billy Faier introduces and makes comments between the poems. (BF-AT-034) |
SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20380/11380 |
Repeat of FT-11379 but without commentary. (BF-AT-035) |
SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20380/11381 |
"Midnight Special" radio show/WBAI/New York City, date unknown. New World Singers. (BF-AT-041) |
SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20380/11382 |
"Midnight Special" radio show. Remote broadcast from the Gaslight, New York City, date unknown. Kay Billig, the Highwaymen, John Wynne. (BF-AT-044) |
SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20380/11383 |
Radio Show. Billy Faier. (BF-AT-074) |
SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20380/11384 |
"Midnight Special" radio show. 15 September, year unknown. Tape pre-recorded for later broadcast. (BF-AT-089) |
Instantaneous Disc FD-20380/793 |
Dillybean Radio Spots: 1: 60 sec. Open end, 2: 15 sec., 3: 10 sec. |
Most of the recordings are unidentified beyond reel number and "disc dubs," but they appear to be recordings of old albums, presumably 78 rpms.
Field notes for FT-20380/11303-11414 reside in Folder 977 within the Southern Folklife Collection Field Notes Collection (#30025).
Items relating to the folk music revival, mental challenges and activities, alternative lifestyles, and peace, as well as his collections of manuscript writings, poetry chapbooks, and artwork. This series is particularly reflective of the counter-culture interests arising out of the 1950s and 1960s. Besides being a participant in the folk music revival, Faier collected material relating to it, including clippings on the folk music scene, generally and on individual musicians; song books, particularly those of a socialist and labor bent; and material relating to or generated by Ronald D. Cohen, Archie Green, Aunt Molly Jackson, and Casey Jones, individuals significant to the folk music revival as researchers, folklorists, activists, performers, and folk figures. Manuscripts and chapbooks collected by Faier include poetry; a banjo book; a short story by his brother-in-law, Bob Peterson; and an autobiography of May Picqueray, a self-ascribed revolutionary. Artwork collected by Faier includes drawings, paintings, and photographs, presumed to have been created by his friends and acquaintances. Faier's research, recreational, and cultural interests include games such as Rubik's Cube and Go; music; hypnosis; overcoming consumerism; Silva Mind Control; peace; and alternative lifestyles. Many of his interests are reflected in fanzines, such as Gigline (for and by veterans against the Vietnam war), Rainbow Family of Living Light, Pearls Before Vinegar, and The Realist.
Billy Faier was not only a participant in the folk music revival, he wrote and lectured on it and collected material related to it. The material Faier collected includes clippings on the folk music scene generally and on individual musicians (most notably Barbara Dane and Frank Proffitt); song books, particularly those of a socialist and labor bent; and material relating to or generated by Ronald D. Cohen, Archie Green, Aunt Molly Jackson, and Casey Jones, individuals significant to the folk music revival as researchers, folklorists, activists, performers, and folk figures. Ronald D. Cohen's material includes a transcript from an 8 August 1992 interview with Billy Faier about his involvement in the folk music revival as well as a copy of his book, "Wasn't That a Time!": Firsthand Accounts of the Folk Music Revival. The Archie Green material consists of booklets he wrote for the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations at the University of Illinois on labor topics. The Aunt Molly Jackson material includes transcripts of interviews Billy Faier and Archie Green conducted with her on 5 May 1958 and Faier conducted with her on 19 May 1958. The Casey Jones material includes an article relating to Casey Jones' widow. Other related material received from Billy Faier but retained in the Southern Folklife Collection general periodical holdings rather than this individual collection are issues of the folk music fanzines Caravan and Gardyloo.
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-20380/3 |
Oversized clippings |
Folder 62 |
Clippings (see also OPF-20380/3) |
Folder 63 |
Song Books |
Folder 64 |
Cohen, Ronald D. |
Folder 65 |
Cohen, Ronald D.: "Wasn't That a Time!": Firsthand Accounts of the Folk Music Revival |
Folder 66 |
Green, Archie |
Folder 67 |
Jackson, Aunt Molly |
Folder 68 |
Jones, Casey |
Manuscripts and chapbooks written by others and collected by Billy Faier. The banjo book manuscript does not list an author but, based on the handwriting, is presumed not to be by Billy Faier. "Duck Caller (and the Hemingway Hex)" is a short story written by Bob Peterson, Faier's brother-in-law. "May: The Revolutionary, for my 81 years of anarchy" is by May Picqueray and translated by Malkine Dattorre and Michael Dattorre. Poetry chapbooks include "Guide to the City" by Michael Grieg, "1001 Ways to Live Without Working" by Tuli Kupferberg, "Elegies" by Herschel Silverman, and "Nite Train" by Herschel Silverman.
Folder 69 |
Banjo Book Manuscript |
Folder 70 |
"Duck Caller (and the Hemingway Hex)" |
Folder 71 |
"May: The Revolutionary" |
Folder 72 |
Poetry Chapbooks |
Artwork collected by Billy Faier includes drawings, paintings, and photographs, which are presumed to have been created by his friends and acquaintances. Most of the works are unsigned. Signed artwork includes works by H. J. Nicholes, John G. Ernst, and Kenneth Matt Hewes. This collection includes some drawings with Faier as the subject and calligraphy of one of Faier's juggling mottos: "You Can't Learn to Juggle Without Dropping Balls."
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-20380/4 |
Oversized Drawings |
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-20380/5 |
Sketchbook |
Folder 73 |
Collected Artwork |
Faier's research, recreational, and cultural interests include games such as Rubik's Cube and Go, music, hypnosis, overcoming consumerism, Silva Mind Control, the secret government, peace, and alternative lifestyles. Many of his interests are reflected in fanzines such as Gigline (for and by veterans against the Vietnam war), Rainbow Family of Living Light, Pearls Before Vinegar (a zine of clippings and articles from other sources), and The Realist. The almost complete collection of The Realist, 1959-1970, is particularly interesting for the intellectual skepticism and questioning by the counter-culture that shaped Billy Faier and others of that era.
One of Billy Faier's passions is juggling. After several earlier false starts in his life, he taught himself to juggle and then came up with the juglature, a way of notating juggling maneuvers similar to music notation. Faier wrote a number of book-length manuscripts on how to juggle using his juglature notation and actively engaged in submitting his manuscript for publication and in teaching juggling. Included are Faier's research notes and material, his juglature drawings, correspondence pertaining to his juggling manuscripts and classes, and his juggling manuscripts, including "Balls!" and "One Ball Meditation: A Juggling Primer."
Juggling Notes includes Faier's early juglature drawings, notes on particular juggling moves, an outline for an article, and early notes and thoughts on juggling.
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-20380/8 |
Juglature Notes |
Folder 104 |
Juggling Notes |
Folder 105 |
Juggling Notebooks |
Juggling research includes the clippings and other research materials that Faier collected.
Folder 106 |
Juggling Research |
Juggling business primarily consists of correspondence relating directly to publication queries and responses on Faier's manuscripts and to juggling classes that Faier taught.
Folder 107 |
Juggling Business |
Faier's juggling manuscripts include different drafts of his manuscript "Balls!," a short juggling manuscript, and several drafts of "One Ball Meditation: A Juggling Primer," including a sealed copy designed to serve as his "poor person's copyright."
Folder 108 |
1st Draft of "Balls!" |
Folder 109 |
Manuscript of "Balls!" |
Folder 110 |
Short Juggling Manuscript |
Folder 111 |
"One Ball Meditation: A Juggling Primer" Draft |
Folder 112 |
"One Ball Meditation" Manuscript |
Folder 113 |
Poor Person's Copyright (sealed copy of "One Ball Meditation") |
Billy Faier moved to Woodstock, N.Y., with his family in 1944 at age thirteen and had his first contact with folk music at that time. Though he traveled extensively and lived elsewhere, including New York City and California, his home base for a large part of his life has been Woodstock and the surrounding area. He built a home in nearby Lake Hill and became an active member of the community, participating in area politics, controversies, and the local art and music scene, including becoming a locally renowned street musician. This series reflects Faier's integral involvement in his community with clippings, community publications, including assorted newspapers from 1959 to 1992, and writings on the tower controversy. Material relating to Faier's personal business affairs based in Woodstock include plans and documents concerning his house; the purchase and sale of the vessel, Dark Companion of Sirius; a copy of a 20 April 1988 last will and testament; and documents pertaining to a harassment charge.
Billy Faier's involvement with the general community surrounding Woodstock, N.Y., is represented through clippings, publications, and manuscripts about the community, including writings by and about Faier. Of particular interest in the clippings section are Faier's letters to the editor and copies of his articles from the local papers. The Woodstock publications include copies of assorted local newspapers from 1959 to 1992, a 1990 yearbook of the town, and a 1962 Woodstock Folk Festival program book. In the early 1980s, Faier became an outspoken critic against the building of a tower on Overlook Mountain. Writings relating to that controversy are included.
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-20380/9 |
Woodstock Clippings |
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-20380/10 |
Woodstock Publications |
Folder 114 |
Woodstock Clippings |
Folder 115 |
Woodstock Publications |
Folder 116 |
Woodstock Tower Controversy Writings |
Material relating to Billy Faier's personal business affairs based in Woodstock, N.Y. "Histoire de Harassment" is Faier's title for the material relating to an accusation of harassment made against him by a local hitchhiker he picked up. Legal paper work and Faier's written notes in his defense are included. Also included are legal documents and plans relating to Faier's Lake Hill, N.Y., house and his sailing vessel, Dark Companion of Sirius, and his last will and testament, dated 20 April 1988. See also Series 1.4. Landlord-Tenant Correspondence and Series 1. Correspondence, particularly from Gloria "Cosmo" Charles for other references to the Lake Hill house and the sailing vessel.
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-20380/11 |
House Drawings and Plans (see also folder 118) |
Folder 117 |
"Histoire de Harassement" |
Folder 118 |
Lake Hill House (see also OPF-20380/11) |
Folder 119 |
Dark Companion of Sirius |
Folder 120 |
Last Will and Testament, 20 April 1988 |
Faier's writings, both personal and intended for publication, not included elsewhere in the collection. In the early 1980s, Faier arranged a cross-country trip of performance gigs and visits with friends. His intention was to travel by bicycle and his actual misadventures and experiences in that attempt are chronicled in an article, "Crossing the USA with Bicycle," published in Bicycle magazine. His manuscript, correspondence with the editor, and the published article are included. Faier engaged in and promoted hitchhiking as a solution to the energy crisis of the early 1980s. His writings on the subject include several short manuscripts, a letter to Russell Baker, and a published article in the Woodstock Times. Among Faier's personal and apparently unpublished writings are a journal from a 1974 trip to California with his girlfriend, Gloria "Cosmo" Charles, and dog, Pizza, and assorted descriptive and informative manuscripts.
In 1981, Billy Faier arranged a cross-country performance tour, including visits with friends along the way. Other references to this trip can be found in Series 1. Correspondence and Series 2. Music Career. His intention was to travel by bicycle and his actual misadventures and experiences in that attempt are chronicled in an article, "Crossing the USA with Bicycle" that was published in Bicycle magazine. His manuscript, correspondence with the editor, and published article are included here. Other material related to this performance tour can be found in Personal and Business Correspondence and Winnipeg Folk Festival, 1981.
Folder 121 |
"Crossing the USA with a Bike" |
Faier engaged in hitchhiking both as hitcher and as driver. See Series 1. Correspondence for letters from hitchhikers he picked up. During the energy crisis of the early 1980s, Faier passionately promoted hitchhiking as a solution for dependence on foreign oil. His writings on the subject include several short manuscripts, a letter to Russell Baker, and a published article in the Woodstock Times.
Folder 122 |
Hitchhiking |
A journal by Faier from a 1974 trip to California with his girlfriend, Gloria "Cosmo" Charles, and dog, Pizza. References to Cosmo Charles and Pizza can also be found in Series 1. Correspondence, Series 2.1. Song Writing, and Series 3. Audio Recordings.
Folder 123 |
Journal |
Faier's personal and apparently unpublished writings include assorted opinion pieces, memoir writing, descriptive personal experience writing, including a piece on hiking in the Grand Canyon, and prose manuscripts, including a piece on the Saturday Night Barn Dance.
Folder 124 |
Other Writings |
Acquisitions information: Acc. 102560
Arrangement: Audio recordings arranged by format. Papers listed first, followed by oversize materials, photographs, audio recordings, and video recordings. Audio recordings by Faier are listed first, followed by recordings by other artists.
Processing information: Titles for audio recordings compiled from original containers. Titles supplied by processing archivists are in brackets. A tape index and documentation found with audiovisual materials resides in box 10. Documentation has been annotated with the corresponding audiovisual item's call number.
Papers, photographs, and audiovisual materials related to Billy Faier's music career, general interests, juggling hobby, and home base of Woodstock, N.Y. Papers consist of personal correspondence, lyrics, sheet music, banjo tabs, business correspondence related to compact disc (CD) and tab orders, promotional materials, tape and song indexes compiled by Faier, printed materials and clippings, juggling notes and juglature drawings, and writings by Faier, including a copy of his 2003 manuscript, Whorehouse Fantasies. Faier's correspondents include girlfriends, friends, fans, and fellow musicians, including Martin Gardener, Frank Proffitt, and Pete Seeger. The addition also includes Faier's Rubik's Cubes and oversize materials, including a one-page scrapbook and a sketchbook containing drawings by Faier. Photographs depict music performances, music festivals, including Woodstock, as well as Faier's personal life. Audiovisual materials consist of audio recordings of live performances, demos, radio programs, and dubbed albums by Faier and others; videotapes of Faier, including home movies, interviews, live performances, and footage of family reunions; and related documentation, such as notes and memos, found with the audiovisual materials. Notable artists found on the recordings include Moses Ash, Bob Dylan, Albert Grossman, John Herald, and Pete Seeger. Audio recordings are on audiocassette, 1/4" open reel, and compact disc (now listed as digital folders "DF"), while videotapes are on VHS and Betacam.
Box 9-12
Box 9Box 10Box 11Box 12 |
Papers |
Oversize Box 1 |
Oversize materialsIncludes one-page scrapbook, scattered printed materials, name tag, and a sketchbook containing drawings by Faier. |
Image Box IB-20380/1 |
Faier Photographs, circa 1960s-2000sBlack-and-White Photographic Negatives, Black-and-White Photographic Prints, Color Ink Jet Prints 1500 Images Many of the negatives are numbered and are grouped together. |
Image Box IB-20380/2 |
Faier Photographs, circa 1960s-2000sBlack-and-White Photographic Prints, Color Photographic Prints, Color Ink Jet Prints 500 Images A majority of the images are in labeled enclosures. |
Image Box IB-20380/3 |
Faier Photographs, circa 1960s-2000sBlack-and-White Photographic Prints, Color Photographic Prints, Color Ink Jet Prints, Color 35mm Slides 500 Images A majority of the images are in labeled enclosures. |
Image Box IB-20380/4 |
Faier Photographs, circa 1960s-2000sBlack-and-White Photographic Prints, Color Photographic Prints, Color Ink Jet Prints, Color 35mm Slides 500 Images A majority of the images are in labeled enclosures. |
SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20380/17501 |
Billy Faier, reel 11/2" Open Reel Audio |
SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20380/17502 |
Billy Faier, reel 21/2" Open Reel Audio |
SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20380/17503 |
Billy Faier, reel 31/2" Open Reel Audio |
SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20380/17504 |
Goodwin Productions recording, 13 August 19621/4" Open Reel Audio |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17233 |
Billy Faier 001, 002Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17234 |
Billy Faier 1Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17235 |
Billy Faier 2, Hitchhiking, 8 January 2001Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17236 |
Billy Faier 003, 004Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17237 |
Billy Faier 3, 10 January 2011Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17238 |
Billy Faier 005, 006Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17239 |
Billy Faier, 5, 2001Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17240 |
Billy Faier 007, 008, 009Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17241 |
Billy Faier 8, 12-17 January 2001Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17242 |
Billy Faier 009, 010, 011Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17243 |
Billy Faier 10, Pedro Rosa; Billy Faier 11, Stanley 2NB, "The Middle of Stanley Rosenberg"Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17244 |
Billy Faier 10, 2; Billy's mother Gerry, 3, 16-20 March 2001Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17245 |
Billy Faier 12, Canyon Havasu, Henderson, Nev., 20-22 March 2001Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17246 |
Billy Faier 012, 013Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17247 |
Billy Faier 13, Canyon (Halla), Moe Asch to Al Grossman, 22-24 March 2001Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17248 |
Billy Faier 13, Managers, Lou Gottlieb, Havasu, Point Loma, Calif., 24 March 2001Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17249 |
Billy Faier 014, 015Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17250 |
Billy Faier 016 , 3 October 1958Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17251 |
Billy Faier 017, 018, 019 part 1Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17252 |
Billy Faier 019 part 2, 020, 021, 022Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17253 |
Billy Faier 21 recorded on Rusty [?] home disc recorder; Robert's PestAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17254 |
Billy Faier 023, 024, 025Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17255 |
Billy Faier 026, 027Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17256 |
Billy Faier 029A, 029B, 029C, 029DAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17257 |
Billy Faier 031A, 031BAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17258 |
Billy Faier 032Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17259 |
Billy Faier 033Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17260 |
Billy Faier 034, 035, 036 1 of 2Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17261 |
Billy Faier 037, 038, 039Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17262 |
Billy Faier 040Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17263 |
Billy Faier 041, 042, 043Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17264 |
Billy Faier 044, 045Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17265 |
Billy Faier 046, 047Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17266 |
Billy Faier 048, 049 part 1 of 2Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17267 |
Billy Faier 049 part 2 of 2; 050Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17268 |
Billy Faier 051, 052Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17269 |
Billy Faier 053, 054Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17270 |
Billy Faier 055, 056Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17271 |
Billy Faier 057, 058, 059Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17272 |
Billy Faier 060, 061, 062, 063, 064, 065, 066Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17273 |
Billy Faier 067, 068, 069Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17274 |
Billy Faier 070, 071, 072, 1 of 2Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17275 |
Billy Faier 072 tape 2 of 2, 073, 074, 075, 076, 077 tape 1 of 2Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17276 |
Billy Faier 077, 078, 079, 080, tape 2 of 2Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17277 |
Billy Faier 78, cassette 1Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17278 |
Billy Faier 78, cassette 2Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17279 |
Billy Faier 78, cassette 3Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17280 |
Billy Faier 78, cassette 4Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17281 |
Billy Faier 78, cassette 5Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17282 |
Billy Faier 78, cassette 6Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17283 |
Billy Faier 78, cassette 7Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17284 |
Billy Faier 78, cassette 8Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17285 |
Billy Faier 78, cassette 9Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17286 |
Billy Faier 78, cassette 10Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17287 |
Billy Faier 78, cassette 11Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17288 |
Billy Faier 78, cassette 12Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17289 |
Billy Faier 78, cassette 13Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17290 |
Billy Faier 78, cassette 14, Jews HarpAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17291 |
Billy Faier 78, cassette 15Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17292 |
Billy Faier 78, cassette 16, Harry HolmanAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17293 |
Billy Faier 78, cassette 17Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17294 |
Billy Faier 78, cassette 18Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17295 |
Billy Faier 78, cassette 19Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17296 |
Billy Faier 78, cassette 20Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17297 |
Billy Faier 78, cassette 21Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17298 |
Billy Faier 78, cassette 22Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17299 |
Billy Faier 78, cassette 23Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17300 |
Billy Faier 78, cassette 24Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17301 |
Billy Faier 78, 25, cassette 25Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17302 |
Billy Faier 78, 26, cassette 26Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17303 |
Billy Faier 081A, 081BAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17304 |
Billy Faier 081B continued, 081C, and 081DAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17305 |
Billy Faier 81E, 81FAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17306 |
Billy Faier 081F continuedAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17307 |
Billy Faier 082A and 082BAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17308 |
Billy Faier 082B and 082C contAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17309 |
Billy Faier 082C cont. and 082DAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17310 |
Billy Faier 082EAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17311 |
Billy Faier 083, 084, 085, 086, 087, 088Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17312 |
Billy Faier 089, 090 1 of 2Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17313 |
Billy Faier 090 and 091; 091A and 091BAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17314 |
Billy Faier 091B, 2 of 2Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17315 |
Billy Faier 092A, 092B, 092C, 093, 094Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17316 |
Billy Faier 095A, 095B, 1Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17317 |
Billy Faier 095B 2Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17318 |
Billy Faier 096A, 096BAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17319 |
Billy Faier 097A, 097B, 098Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17320 |
Billy Faier 099, Side A, Right ChannelAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17321 |
Billy Faier 099, Side 1, Left ChannelAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17322 |
Billy Faier 099, Side 2, Right ChannelAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17323 |
Billy Faier 100A/100B, Billy Faier 101A/101B part 1 of 2Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17324 |
Billy Faier 101B, part 2 of 2Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17325 |
Billy Faier 102, 103Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17326 |
Billy Faier 104, 105Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17327 |
Billy Faier 106Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17328 |
Billy Faier 107, 108, 109Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17329 |
Billy Faier 110Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17330 |
Billy Faier, 7 Pieces with banjo and voice, 2 instruments, tape 2Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17331 |
Billy Faier, Assorted, "Defenders of Israel"; Cisco Houston, Cowboy Songs; Frank Warner with Billy Faier, "Our Singing Heritage"Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17332 |
Billy Faier, AYH Concert, Eric[?] and Dick[?], 10 October 1958Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17333 |
Billy Faier, Banjos, Birdsong, Mother Earth test tape, 2 August 1994Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17334 |
Billy Faier, "Banjo," Takoma albumAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17335 |
Billy Faier, "Banjo"; 5-String Banjo Greats ; 900 Miles and Other Railroad Songs, 1973Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17336 |
Billy Faier, Berkeley Little Theater, 2 May 1958Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17337 |
Billy Faier, Big Time Folk Music Scene, NYC Woodstock, Joan Darling, Janice, 11 January 2001Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17338 |
Billy Faier, Cafe Reno, 6 May 1967Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17339 |
Billy Faier and ChorusAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17340 |
Billy Faier Show with Bob Dylan, WBAI, FM, 1958, 1962Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17341 |
Billy Faier, "The English Album" with Andrew Schulman, GuitarAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17342 |
Billy Faier on Bob Fass, WBA 1, 7 January 2000Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17343 |
Billy Faier, Fugazi Hall, 1 of 2, 13 December 1957Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17344 |
Billy Faier, the Green [?], Caravan, 25 September 2002Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17345 |
Billy Faier Live, John Herald, Woodstock, N.Y., circa 1965Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17346 |
Billy Faier, John Herald, Woodstock, N.Y., 1965Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17347 |
Billy Faier, "In White America", 12 January 2001Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17348 |
Billy Faier, "In White America"; Ed McCurdy and Billy Faier, "Children's Songs", 1958Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17349 |
Billy Faier and Howard Johnson, The Wall Cafe, 1st Set, 13 February 1999Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17350 |
Billy Faier and Howard Johnson, The Wall Cafe, 2nd set , 13 February 1999Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17351 |
Billy Faier and Kessey sisters, Housewives HellAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17352 |
Billy Faier, Kleinert concertAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17353 |
Billy Faier, "London Home, Sick Blues, Fiddle Tune, Never Could Do Nothin Right, For Me and My Baby, The Gre Assembly, [?] Music, Angel From Montgomery, Red Haired Boy, Fisher's Hornpipe"Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17354 |
Billy Faier and Gilles Malkine, "Opus 40"; Smokey Mt. Ballads, Victor Records, Roxy Dawn on AccordionAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17355 |
Billy Faier and Gilles Malkine, Work Tape; Bayou [?] and Mother EarthAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17356 |
Billy Faier and othersAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17357 |
Billy Faier, Piano [?] ragAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17358 |
Billy Faier, Sexual Adventures, outline of places he lived, 2001Audiocassette |
Digital Folder DF-20380/1 |
Billy Faier, Skip Weshner radio interview, Los Angeles, Calif., 197115 digital files |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17359 |
Billy Faier, Southwest Pickers Concert , 26 August 1989Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17360 |
Billy Faier tapeAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17361 |
Billy Faier, "Travelin' Man", "Bahaman Lullaby", "All Star Hootenanny", 14 September 2003Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17362 |
Billy Faier et al, WAMC, B.O.H., 8 February 1989Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17363 |
Billy Faier and Robert Ward improvision, promoAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17364 |
Billy Faier, "What time is it?"; Bill Keck, Apt. on Fire, 10 January 2001Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17365 |
Billy Faier rehearsal with Woodchuck Hollow Brass and Woodward ChoirAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17366 |
Billy Faier, "The World of Folk Music"; American Folk Songs, Frank Warner; Election Songs, Oscar Brand with Billy Faier, 10 September 1962Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Open Reel FS-20380/17520 |
[unidentified sound recording of Billy Faier]Microcassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17367 |
A1 and Waltz, 45 minute [?]Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17368 |
Alpine MountaineersAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17369 |
Don and Victoria Armstrong, 1990Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17370 |
Banjo Improv, early 80s, 31 January 1958Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17371 |
Banjo TakesAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17372 |
The Baroque Style; For Marilyn, Love AndrewAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17373 |
BB and ME master copy, 25 July 1990Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17374 |
Beverly Hills master, 31 January 1958Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17375 |
Allan Block, Ebenezer, "Tell It To Me" and "Alive and Well and Fiddling"Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17376 |
Cajun BayouAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17377 |
Hoagy Carmichael 19Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17378 |
Carol and Billy, 21 September 1986Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17379 |
Corazon Gitano, making wayAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17380 |
Smoke Dawson, "Fiddle"; Jimmy Yancey, "Yancey Getaway"; Salli Terri, "At the Gate of Heaven"Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17381 |
Ellen Diamond, 1991Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17382 |
Bob Dylan, Tunes from the Simple Years, 1961-1964Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17383 |
Ramblin' Jack Elliot, Bob Fass Show Wrap, 13 June 1996Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17384 |
Ramblin' Jack Elliot and Daryl AdamsAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17385 |
Extraneous material from acetates, 78s, and returned vinylAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17386 |
Jerry Faires and Friends, 1992Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17387 |
Folklore LinoAmericano, Peru Andes, CondorAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17388 |
[?] Gray, 25 February 2006Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17389 |
[?] HoagyAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17390 |
Linda Joseph, VintageAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17391 |
Linda Joseph, 3 vocals, instrumental excerptsAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17392 |
KencoAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17393 |
Mead Lux Lewis, Piano and Celeste, In White AmericaAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17394 |
"London Homesick Blues," The Great Assembly, tape 1Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17395 |
Lullabies, Reveilles, and Siesta!; To Michelle, my old Gal, Love AndrewAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17396 |
Blair LundstedtAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17397 |
Nico MacCondry homeAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17398 |
"The Next Sound" and "Won a Third", 28 March 2001Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17399 |
Managers, Lou Gottlieb, 24 March 2001Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17400 |
Paul McCartney, "Tug of War"; John Renbourn, "The Lady and the Unicorn"Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17401 |
Mysterious GroupAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17402 |
O'PeraAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17403 |
Party [?]Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17404 |
"I'm the Man That Built the Bridges", Tom Paxton; "The Days of '49", Songs of the Gold Rush, Logan EnglishAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17405 |
Peruvian Flute IAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17406 |
Peruvian Tune 4x; New Lost City RamblersAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17407 |
Pinche Gringos Marathon Motel Buffalo Bash, tape 1Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17408 |
Pinche Gringo, Marathon Motel Buffalo Bash, 25 February 2005Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17409 |
The Pizza Pusher, John Thomas Conclusion, 78, dubs Leadbelly, [?] etcAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17410 |
The Pizza Pusher by J.R. Goodwin, The North Beach Opera Co., White Slavery, and US Steel Cello Ensemble, "Bitter Suites"Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17411 |
Poozies AgainAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17412 |
Potluck, Ed Doyles, Mt. Tremper, 1983Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17413 |
Pubs for ListeningAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17414 |
Graciela Riviera, "All That the Name Implies, Danzas de Puerto Rico"; C Mother and the All Night Newsboys, "Albion Moonlight"Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17415 |
Mark Rust, The Sea of Silver Sand, 1988Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17416 |
Pete Seeger and Frank Hamilton, "Nonesuch and Other Folk Songs"; Uncle Dave MaconAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17417 |
Pete Seeger interview for [?] bookAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17418 |
Song of the Cuckoo I and IIAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17419 |
South American Tune 112, MATKATAMEBA 194, Bright Angel reg 307, Improv and For Me and My Baby, 26 October 1986Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17420 |
Talking about [?] D. [?], Playing BanjosAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17421 |
Taped Journal, Santa FeAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17422 |
Teeny and MotsyAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17423 |
"That'll Show 'Em" and others, 1985-1986Audiocassette |
Digital Folder DF-20380/2 |
Wade Ward, playing banjo2 digital files |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17424 |
John WayneAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17425 |
Guy WernhamAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17426 |
Anne and Eldon WhitfordAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17427 |
Mel WiensteinAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17428 |
Val's LessonAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17429 |
Val, [?] LoveAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17430 |
YCBAudiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17431 |
[unidentified sound recording]Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17432 |
[unidentified sound recording]Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17433 |
[unidentified sound recording]Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17434 |
[unidentified sound recording]Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17435 |
[unidentified sound recording]Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20380/17436 |
[unidentified sound recording]Audiocassette |
Videotape VT-20380/1 |
Billy Faier, Beam-Up PartyVHS |
Videotape VT-20380/2 |
Billy Faier, Beta HiFi Tape, Banjos Birdsong Mother, 26 July 1994Betacam |
Videotape VT-20380/3 |
Billy Faier, Civil War, parts 1-4VHS |
Videotape VT-20380/4 |
Billy Faier, Civil War, parts 5-9VHS |
Videotape VT-20380/5 |
Billy Faier Family Party in Woodstock, NY, Brief Selfy of Nico Wand, Introduction by Erik Darling of Billy FaierVHS |
Videotape VT-20380/6 |
Billy Faier Family Reunion, tape 1VHS |
Videotape VT-20380/7 |
Billy Faier Family Reunion, tape 1, dubVHS |
Videotape VT-20380/8 |
Billy Faier Family Reunion, tape 2VHS |
Videotape VT-20380/9 |
Billy Faier Family Reunion, tape 2, dubVHS |
Videotape VT-20380/10 |
Billy Faier, Home Movies, Wand, BarrymoreVHS |
Videotape VT-20380/11 |
Billy Faier, Home Movies, 1953VHS |
Videotape VT-20380/12 |
Billy Faier, Light Boxes and Lokehill House and catsVHS |
Videotape VT-20380/13 |
Billy Faier Interview by Marylou Paturel, November 1991VHS |
Videotape VT-20380/14 |
Billy Faier, Woodstock Community Center, 1995VHS |
Videotape VT-20380/15 |
Carnal Cravings Vol. 1VHS |
Videotape VT-20380/16 |
Sage SocialVHS |
Videotape VT-20380/17 |
Nick Wand, "Dorado", 6 May 1992VHS |
Image Folders (PF-20380/1)
Image Boxes (IB-20380/1-4)
Promotional buttons (MU-20380/1-4)
Oversized items (OPF-20380/1-11, OB-20380/1)
Digital Folders (DF-20380/1-2)
Audiotapes (FT-11303-11417, FT-11526-11531, FT-17501-17504)
Audiocassettes (FS-6904-6905, FS-17233-17436, FS-17520)
Instantaneous Discs (FD-789-793)
LPs (FC-13785)
Videotape (VT-20380/1-17)
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