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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the David R. Gessner Collection #20513, Southern Folklife Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from David R. Gessner in August 2015 (Acc. 102301).

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• Blue Grass Boys.
• Folk music.
• Gessner, David R.
• James, Skip, 1902-1969.
• Koerner, Ray, and Glover (Musical group)
• Monroe, Bill, 1911-1996.
• Watson, Doc.

David R. Gessner was the assistant manager at Club 47, a folk music club in Cambridge, Mass. He runs a small independent record label, ESCA records, and lives in Sommerville, Mass.

The David R. Gessner Collection consists of 8 live 1/4" open reel audio recordings, 1963-1970, of Skip James; Ray and Glover Koerner; Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys; and Doc Watson recorded in the 1960s and early 1970s in Cambridge, Mass., and Chapel Hill, N.C.