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Size | Approximately 200 items |
Abstract | The collection contains commercial recordings of bluegrass and country music on audio cassette and non-commercial recordings of the musical group, the Blue Sky Boys, also on audio cassette. Other artists represented in the audio collection include Jim Nabors, "Little" Roy Wiggins, Debbie Bohanan, Ricky Scaggs, the Statler Brothers, Connie Francis, the Louvin Brothers, and Chet Atkins. Small printed informational booklets accompany some of the recordings. Also included in the collection are letters received by Mobley in the early 1990s from Bill Bolick of the Blue Sky Boys and a brief exchange of correspondence between Mobley and Sarah Ophelia Cannon popularly known as Minnie Pearl. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection. |
Creator | Mobley, C. Wade. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection. |
Language | English |
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
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Back to TopC. Wade Mobley of Salisbury, N.C., was a 1954 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was a history teacher, coach, and school principal, and he later became the superintendent for Rowan County (N.C.) Schools.
Back to TopThe collection contains commercial recordings of bluegrass and country music on audio cassette and non-commercial recordings of the musical group, the Blue Sky Boys, also on audio cassette. Other artists represented in the audio collection include Jim Nabors, "Little" Roy Wiggins, Debbie Bohanan, Ricky Scaggs, the Statler Brothers, Connie Francis, the Louvin Brothers, and Chet Atkins. Small printed informational booklets accompany some of the recordings. Also included in the collection are letters received by Mobley in the early 1990s from Bill Bolick of the Blue Sky Boys and a brief exchange of correspondence between Mobley and Sarah Ophelia Cannon popularly known as Minnie Pearl.
Back to TopFolder 1 |
Correspondence with Minnie Pearl, 1988-1989 |
Folder 2 |
Letters from Bill Bolick, 1989-1993 |