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CENTER FOR POPULAR MUSIC                                                     96-011

  MISCELLANEOUS INTERVIEWS

 

 

JERRY GARCIA

 

1 reel to reel audio tape (TTA-0201)

 

Commentator: Bruce Nemerov, Center for Popular Music audio archivist, Middle Tennessee State University.

 

Jerry Garcia (1942-1995), lead guitarist, vocalist, songwriter, and leader of the Grateful Dead rock band, also had touring and recording stints with other West Coast musical groups.  He died on August 9 in Marin County, California. 

 

Nemerov comments on Garcia's death, his comparison to Elvis, on the future of the Grateful Dead, and on Garcia as a guitarist.  This phone-taped commentary was broadcast on MTSU's WMOT-FM, Murfreesboro, August 11, 1995.

 

The audio log for this commentary follows.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CENTER FOR POPULAR MUSIC                                                     96-011

  MISCELLANEOUS INTERVIEWS

 

 

JOHN JACKSON

 

1 reel to reel audio tape (TTA-0199)

1 r-dat audio tape (TCD-0199)

 

Interviewer:  Bruce Nemerov, Center for Popular Music audio archivist, Middle Tennessee State University; with Trish Byerly, Jackson's manager.

 

John Jackson, born 1925 in Rappahannock County, Virginia, is a guitarist and singer of the "Piedmont" blues style.

 

The interview took place on June 3, 1995 in Stephens City, Virginia.

 

The audio log for this interview follows.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CENTER FOR POPULAR MUSIC                                                     96-011

  MISCELLANEOUS INTERVIEWS

 

 

TED JARRETT

 

2 reel to reel audio tapes (TTA-0193 A/B)

2 audio cassette tapes (TCA-0193 A/B)

 

Interviewer:  Michael Gray, MTSU graduate and Nashville Tennesseean writer and music reviewer.

 

Ted Jarrett (1925-    ) is a song composer, producer, publisher, and record company executive in Nashville.  Jarrett, an African-American native of middle Tennessee, discusses his education, early musical influences, career steps, the middle Tennessee music scene, and some of his experience from life.

 

This interview took place in Nashville on December 4, 1994.

The audio log for this interview follows.