Park Ranger Saves Mountain Music, Iris Dement Sings "Pretty Saro" From Songcatcher

THOUSANDS OF LYRIC SHEETS, PHOTOGRAPHS AND RECORDINGS PRESERVED FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS

In another one of our installments of “Cool Things the Government and Government Employees Can Do” (along with the Marshall Plan and the TVA), Tennessee Park Ranger Bobby Fulcher has made it his mission to collect, assemble, and preserve Appalachian Mountain Music artifacts and material such as lyric sheets and recordings, all to be stored in a temperature and humidity controlled vault and preserved for future generations to listen to, see, and enjoy. Bobby also plays the banjo, and has amazingly personally collected folk and Appalachia songs literally going door-to-door and having the Old Timeys showing him the oral and traditional Appalachian music that is hard to transcribe, and sometimes only passed on orally from generation to generation.

READ MORE, AND GET LINK TO LISTEN TO RECORDINGS, SEE SHEET MUSIC, AND PICS HERE:
http://www.jtmp.org/?p=3085&preview=true