A ACS 6.246
Artist: Jennings Morris
Album/Event:
Tracks: Camp Town Races, Sleepy Eyed John, Black Bear Claws, others
Collected/Recorded by: Gerry Milnes
Date: 1/25/1990
Location: Cowen, WV
Notes: Jennings Morris interview and banjo music; “Jinx” Morris plays in an old picking style influenced by the classical style. Started as a clawhammer player, born in 1907. His father was an old-time fiddler from Erbacon, WV, infleunced by Jack McElwain.
The Milnes Collection contains audio-visual recordings made and collected by the Augusta Heritage Center’s former Folk Arts Coordinator, Gerald Milnes. Throughout his career with Augusta, Milnes conducted field work to amass a large collection of oral histories, music, and event recordings. He recorded the bulk of the collection from the early 1970s to 2013, but the collection also includes tapes with earlier dates that others sent to him.