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Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/2010655366
English and Japanese
Collection of audio recordings made at various bluegrass festivals and performances in the United States by Jun-ichi Yamada from 1972 to 1976 in Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and a few other unspecified geographic locations. The festivals include Carlton Haney's Bluegrass Festival at Watermelon Park, Berryville, Virginia; Bluegrass Music Festival in Bluegrass Park, Campsprings, North Carolina; the Newgrass Festival of 1974; the Wise County Shrine Club Bluegrass Festival; the 2nd Carter Stanley Memorial Festival, McClure, Virginia; the 7th Annual Culpeper Bluegrass and Folk Music Festival, Culpeper, Virginia; Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Festival, Bean Blossom, Indiana; Old Time Family Bluegrass Festival, Callaway, Maryland; Georgia State Bluegrass Music Festival, Lavonia, Georgia; Bluegrass Bonanza Showcase, Indiansprings, Maryland; and the Indiansprings Bluegrass Festival, Hagerstown, Maryland. Instrumentals and songs are performed with banjo, dobro, double bass, guitar, mandolin, and fiddle accompaniment, among other instruments. Tape containers included partial documentation--lists of performers and titles for some tape reels. Collection also includes copies of festival flyers, one photograph, and other ephemera. A few lists and annotations are in Japanese.
Various performers including J. D. Crowe, Jim Eanes, Billy Edwards, Bill Emerson, Lester Flatt, Jimmy Gaudreau, Bill Harrell, Tex Logan, Jimmy Martin, Del McCoury, Jesse McReynolds, Jim McReynolds, Bill Monroe, Ricky Skaggs, Red Smiley, Carl Story, Don Stover, Fiddling "Tater" Tate, Cliff Waldron, Doc Watson, Chubby Wise, and Mac Wiseman. Some of the performing groups include Blue Grass Boys, Blue Ridge Boys, Blue Sky Boys, Clinch Mountain Boys, Country Gentlemen, Country Grass, Country Store, Dixie Bluegrass Boys, Dixie Gentlemen, Dixie Pals, II Generation, Lilly Brothers, McCormick Brothers, New Grass Revival, New Shades of Grass, New South, Osborne Brothers, Rice Brothers, Seldom Scene, Shenandoah Cut-Ups, and Sunny Mountain Boys were on the programs for these festivals.
From 1972 to 1976, Jun-ichi Yamada—a Japanese material scientist and bluegrass enthusiast—recorded various bluegrass concerts and festivals in the eastern United States, ranging as far south as Georgia and as far north as Pennsylvania. It is unknown whether Yamada's time in the U.S. was continuous or periodic. While in the U.S. he stayed with Walter Saunders, an author who contributed articles to
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the LC Catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically.
Organized into the following series: 1. Manuscripts; 2. Sound Recordings; 3. Graphic Materials; 4 Artifacts. Manuscript materials consist of incomplete performer and song title lists that were included in their respective 7 in. reel-to-reel boxes. Sound recordings have retained the original order in which they were received. With one exception (noted in the container list section), the original order grouped recordings together thematically (i.e., by festival, venue, etc.), but not chronologically. Most of the graphic materials were originally located with a sound recording (in a 7 in. reel-to-reel box).
Donated by Hideo Nagai; 2008.
The collection was processed by Adam Crandell, Megan Halsband, and Marcia K. Segal.
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Jun-ichi Yamada collection of bluegrass recordings (AFC 2008/024), Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Spreadsheet is organized by sound recording and includes performer and song title list (when available), all hand-written text on each box and reel, media information (brand, physical description, and present condition), and miscellaneous notes.
Includes the preliminary collection report, shipping labels, customs, and copies of email correspondence between Tōru Mitsui and Michael Taft.
Print-outs of scanned images from the 7 in. reel-to-reel boxes in the collection.
Includes manuscript materials that document track listings and other information for SR001-SR010, SR017, SR021-SR022, SR033, SR037, SR039, SR045, SR063-SR064, and SR091
Includes notices about a barbecue bean day, various contests, and that the camping site has electricity.
NB: All recordings are original with the exception of SR121-137, which are duplications of recordings not made by Yamada.
SR043 is a recording of this same festival, and chronologically it comes after SR009.
Continuation of the same festival recorded on SR001-009, and chronologically it comes after SR009.
Dubbed from an earlier recording not made by Yamada.
Dubbed from an earlier recording not made by Yamada.