Minstrel of the AppalachiansLoyal Jones

Minstrel of the Appalachians

Name: Minstrel of the Appalachians
ISBN: 9780913239117

Loyal Jones · 1984

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It is said that Bascom Lamar Lunsford would cross hell on a rotten rail to get a folk song His Southern highlands folk-song compilations now constitute one of the largest collections of its kind in the Library of Congress; but he did much more than acquire songs. He preserved and promoted the Appalachian mountain tradition for generations of people, founding in 1928 the Mountain Dance and Folk Festival in Asheville, North Carolina, which still thrives.

First sentence: To use a mountain saying, Bascom Lamar Lunsford would cross hell on a rotten rail to get a folk song.