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Collection Overview
| Size | 17 items |
| Abstract | Ed Huey is a retired music educator who was twice honored by the Tennessee Governor's School for the Arts as an Outstanding Music Educator. A Lyndhurst Foundation Grant Recipient, Huey gathered field recordings of Mississippi Bluesmen, Jack Owens, Bud Spires, Jimmy "Duck" Holmes, Jacob Stuckey, and A. B. Granderson. Huey performs and teaches American Roots Music, specializing in early Blues guitar and harmonica styles. His highly interactive sets include Work Songs, Field Hollers, Hambone, Piedmont Blues, Delta Blues, Texas Blues, Jug Band, Hokum, and railroad songs. Huey plays guitar, slide guitar, harmonica, mandolin, washboard, spoons, and jug. Huey also teaches harmonica at the Folk School of Chattanooga. The collection consists of seventeen 7" open reel audio tapes containing field work recorded in Bentonia, Miss., and Pickens, Miss., in July 1982. These recordings were made at the 3rd Annual Bentonia Blues Festival, Blue Front Cafe, Big Mount Zion Church, and Gum Grove Plantation. Musicians recorded include Boyd Rivers, Jack Owens, Bud Spires, A.B. Granderson, Jacob Stuckey, John "Mogie" Holmes, James "Son" Thomas, Tommy Lee West, Eddie Cusic, Joe Cooper, and Sam Myers. |
| Creator | Huey, Ed. |
| Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection. |
| Language | English |
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Processed by: SFC staff, September 2015
Encoded by: Jodi Berkowitz, October 2015
Container list compiled from Southern Folklife Collection database.
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Biographical Information
Ed Huey is a retired music educator who was twice honored by the Tennessee Governor's School for the Arts as an Outstanding Music Educator. A Lyndhurst Foundation Grant Recipient, Huey gathered field recordings of Mississippi Bluesmen, Jack Owens, Bud Spires, Jimmy "Duck" Holmes, Jacob Stuckey, and A.B. Granderson. Huey performs and teaches American Roots Music, specializing in early Blues guitar and harmonica styles. His highly interactive sets include Work Songs, Field Hollers, Hambone, Piedmont Blues, Delta Blues, Texas Blues, Jug Band, Hokum, and railroad songs. Huey plays guitar, slide guitar, harmonica, mandolin, washboard, spoons, and jug. Huey also teaches harmonica at the Folk School of Chattanooga.
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Scope and Content
The collection consists of seventeen 7" open reel audio tapes containing field work recorded in Bentonia, Miss., and Pickens, Miss., in July 1982. These recordings were made at the 3rd Annual Bentonia Blues Festival, Blue Front Cafe, Big Mount Zion Church, and Gum Grove Plantation. Musicians recorded include Boyd Rivers, Jack Owens, Bud Spires, A.B. Granderson, Jacob Stuckey, John "Mogie" Holmes, James "Son" Thomas, Tommy Lee West, Eddie Cusic, Joe Cooper, and Sam Myers.
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Ed Huey Collection, 1982.
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