Audio Highlight
John Morgan Salyer - Magoffin County, Kentucky
"Brushy Fork of John's Creek," c.1940-41.
John Morgan Salyer Collection, SAA 122 (JS-OR-009-001-04)
Fiddle Tunes Research Guides
- Fiddle Tune By Kentucky CountyA useful perspective from which to explore a large portion of the Berea College Sound Archives fiddle recordings.
- African American Fiddler ProfilesProfiles and featured recordings of African American fiddlers from the Berea College Celebration of Traditional Music identified by 2006 Sound Archives Fellow Ajay Kalra.
- Erynn Marshall fiddle tune transcriptions2006 Berea College Sound Archives Fellow Erynn Marshall's work at Berea included transcriptions of fiddle tunes by Hiram Stamper, J.P. Fraley, Santford Kelly and others.
- Alan Jabbour's Kentucky Fiddle Tune TranscriptionsDistinctive Kentucky fiddle tunes selected and transcribed by 2008 Appalachian Sound Archives Fellow Alan Jabbour.
- Kentucky Old-Time Fiddlers: Hiram StamperHiram Stamper (1893-1992) is one of the many older generation Kentucky fiddlers documented in the Berea College Appalachian Sound Archives.
- The Berea Tune Lists: an archival resource for the study of social music in Eastern Kentucky and East Tennessee in 1915Former Appalachian Center archivist Steve Green's article on the lists of fiddle tunes and banjo music collected from Berea College students by English Professor John F. Smith in 1915.
