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LOGGER'S SHEET: SI-FP-1986-CT-131

LOGGER: Jean M. Coyle
REEL NUMBER: 1A
STAGE: Tennessee Talk
DATE: 6/28/86 
PRESENTOR: Roby Cogswell
GROUP NAME: Tennessee Regions
REGION/STYLE: Tennessee

PERFORMER(S) INSTRUMENT/OCCUPATION
Red Rector east Tenn. music Musician
Roy Harper middle Tenn. music Musician
Jerry Lee "Smoochie" Smith West Tenn. Music  Musician

CONTENTS
1. Music scene in east, middle, & west Tennessee
2. Roy Harper — early years of radio, 
3. (battery-powered), secondhand battery radio
4. (although folks were poor - one-house-farmer), 
5. Thompsons,
6. George B. Hay — "Grand 'Ole Opry,"
7. Uncle Dave Makin — featured singer for 15 yrs, 
8. Gully-jumpers, Fruit-jar Drinkers, Possum Hunters
9. Red Rector — Knoxville east Tenn. music,
10. ("Middle Merry-go-'round"),
11. Cass Walker
12. Jerry Lee "Smoochie" Smith - rockabilly 
13. music in West Tenn, Memphis