A ACS 6.70
Artist: Rector Hicks
Album/Event:
Tracks: He plays original tunes, including The White Man Rag and The Turkey Dance, plays a couple of Ed Haley tunes, Yellow Barber
Collected/Recorded by:
Date: 1979-1986
Location: Akron, OH and Gilmer County, WV
Notes: Hicks was born in Gilmer County, WV; He learned many tunes from Ed Haley, Rector’s dad would often go to Portsmouth, OH for business and would drop young Rector off at the city park where Ed played, he would spend much of the day listening to Ed Haley and learned many tunes from him. Rector moved to Akron during the war. He worked at Goodyear Tire, and was retired by ’77 or ’78 when the interviewer met him. He died in ’88 or ’89, probably around 80 years old. He and his wife Bonnie were very kind to interviewer and Rector always had time to play. He played with the fiddle resting on his chest. He “made up” several tunes on this tape, The White Man Rag and The Turkey Dance to name a couple. He always plays a couple of Ed Haley tunes. One tunes of note is Rector’s version of Yellow Barber.
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.