Installment No. 1 - Lily May Ledford
This show explores the early career of Kentucky’s own “banjo-picking girl,” Lily May Ledford. A pioneering woman of country music, Lily May grew up in the Red River Gorge section of Powell County in the mountains of eastern Kentucky. At the age of seventeen, she met a radio producer and talent scout named John Lair, who launched her into a three-decade career as leader of the Coon Creek Girls, the first commercially-successful all-female string band.
Program courtesy of WMMT-FM/Appalshop, Whitesburg, KY.
