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1 From phone conversation with Kirk Sutphin, May 12, 2002.

2 Bill C. Malone, Country Music USA, Revised Edition (Austin TX: University of Texas Press, 1985), p.17.

3 Gilbert Chase, America’s Music: From the Pilgrims to the Present, Revised Third Edition (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1922), p.50.

4 Frank V. Tursi, Winston-Salem, A History (Winston-Salem, NC: John F. Blair, 1994), p.27

5 C. Daniel Crews, Villages of the Lord: The Moravians Come to Carolina (Winston-Salem, NC: Moravian Archives, 1995), p.20.

6 C. Daniel Crews, p. 24.

7 Dr. Nola Reed Knouse and C. Daniel Crews, Moravian Music: An Introduction (Winston-Salem, NC: Moravian Music Foundation, 1979), p.6.

8
Donald M. McCorkle, The Collegium Musicum Salem: Its Music, Musicians and Importance (Winston-Salem, NC: Moravian Music Foundation, 1979), p.6.

9 Jon F. Sensbach, A Separate Canaan, The Making of an African-Moravian World in North Carolina, 1763-1840 (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1998), p.124.

10 Ibid.

11 Bob Carlin and Pamela Grundy, Musical Change in the Western Piedmont: A Research Summary (Lexington, NC: Davidson County Community College, 1991), p.8. (Notice that they sight German influence as well. Commonly only British Isle references are made in terms of string band tradition.)

12 Ibid.

13 From phone conversation with local blues musician Peter May, May 10, 2002.

14 Timothy Duffy, "North Carolina Blues, Winston-Salem, Part One" Living Blues, (January/February, 1993), p.36.

15 Comments made by Tim Jackson, Jr. on tape recording from gospel specialists meeting for project at Winston-Salem State University, February 18, 2002.

16 Bernice Johnson Reagon (Editor), We’ll Understand It Better By and By: Pioneering African American Gospel Composers, (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992), p.14.

17  Ibid.

18 From phone interview with Dr. Fred Tanner, 2002.

19 Seamus Egan, "The Five Royales, Part I" in Juke Box Blues, No. 31 (Summer 1994), p.10.

20  Tom Steadman, "R&B Kings of a Bygone Era", The Greensboro News & Record, from press files of the North Carolina Arts Council.  Date and page unknown to author.

21 Bob Carlin, "Ernest Thompson: Forgotton Pioneer" in The Journal of Country Music, Volume 18, #1, p.42.

22 Ibid.

23 Comment made by Mr. Joe Robinson during taped meeting with Steve Terrill, November 12, 2001, East Winston Heritage Center. Also present at the meeting were Dr. Fred Tanner, Mr. Cary Cain, and Mr. Shedrick Adams.

24 Comment made by Mr. Shedrick Adams at the same meeting above.

25 See footnote 23.

 

26 From phone conversation with Ralph and Earlene Epperson,  January 14, 2004.

 

27  Paul Brown, Notes for CD WPAQ: Voices of the Blue Ridge Mountains – Radio Recordings from Mount Airy, NC, 1947-50 (Cambridge, MA: Rounder Records, 1999),   p. 7.

 

28 Ibid., p.14.

 

29 Ibid., p.8.

 

 

30 Ibid.,  p. 15.

 

31 Fred C. Fussell’s Blue Ridge Music Trails: Finding a Place In The Circle (Chapel Hill, NC & London: University of North Carolina Press, 2003), p.16.

 

32 Paul Brown, Notes for CD WPAQ: Voices of the Blue Ridge Mountains – Radio Recordings from Mount Airy, NC, 1947-50 (Cambridge, MA: Rounder Records, 1999),  p. 15.

 

33 Ibid.

 

34 Ibid., pp 15-16.

 

35 Joseph Wilson and Wayne Martin, “History of Blue Ridge Music” in Fred C. Fussell’s Blue Ridge Music Trails: Finding a Place In the Circle (Chapel Hill, NC & London: University of North Carolina Press, 2003), pp.10-11.

      Note: According to Wilson and Martin on page 11, “Some musicians like Tommy Jarrell and Fred Cockerham of Surry Co, North Carolina, became musical role models for thousands of people who had grown up outside the region, a phenomenon noted by the New Yorker magazine in 1987.”  (“Our Far Flung Correspondents: Fiddling”, New Yorker, July 20, 1987, pp.74-88.)


36 Adelaide Fries, Stuart Thurman Wright and J. Edwin Hendricks, Forsyth: The History of a County on the March (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1976), p.218.

37  "Bacon Recalls Role as Newscaster," Journal and Sentinel, 4/17/60.  Sited in unpublished writings of Bob Carlin.

38 From conversation with Camp Meeting Choir member Shedrick Adams, November 25, 2003.

39  Robin Barksdale, "’Godfather of Gospel’ Bids Farewell to Off-air Duties", in The Winston-Salem Chronicle, (6/22/89).

40  Ibid.

41 From WAAA web site www.waaa980.com

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