Soon we hope to offer many rare and precious recordings from Eastern-Kentucky. However there is still much work and preparation to be done. In the mean time, there are many albums available through Rounder Records that are of special importance to Kentucky Memories and for anyone with a serious interest in traditional music. Most of these albums are listed with free sound clips for every track! A good place to start would be http://www.rounder.com/series.nat there is even autobiographies on Buddy Thomas, Snake Chapman and J.P. Fraley along with some fiddle tune transcriptions too. Thank you Rounder!
Also check out the latest news from the Rounder Archive and read Mark Wilson's comments about the importance of He and Rounder's efforts which resulted in more than 90 albums of traditional music:
"...Neither universities nor the government provided substantive or systematic support for any schedule of preservational field recording during the last quarter of the twentieth century (and continuing). If it had not been for their support, we would have no significant record of the music of Ed Haley, Buddy Thomas, George Hawkins, Joe Cormier, Art Galbraith, Snake Chapman, Willie Kennedy and a host of others."
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