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Blues (Music) -- Georgia -- Atlanta

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

David Rotenstein papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1095
Scope and Content

This collection contains flyers, articles, transcripts, correspondence, and press releases from interviews conducted by David Rotenstein. Interviewees include Tinsley Ellis, Roger “Hurricane” Wilson, Michael Stone “Stoney B. Blues,” Pierce Pettis, and Chuck Leavell. Of particular note is the audio from the 1990 interview of Eric King at The Blind Willies.

Dates: 1984-2000

WRFG records of the Living Atlanta oral history project

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS637
Scope and Content The bulk of this collection consists of tape recorded interviews of Atlantans used to create fifty programs titledLiving Atlanta: Atlanta Life from World War I through World War II, and the programs themselves, which aired on WRFG Radio in Atlanta, Georgia. The programs were composed of excerpts from the interviews connected by music and explanatory narration. During the course of the project, hundreds of Atlantans were interviewed, resulting in approximately...
Dates: 1977-1980, undated