Minstrel of the Appalachians

It is said that Bascom Lamar Lunsford would "e;cross hell on a rotten rail to get a folk song"e;-his Southern highlands folk-song compilations now constitute one of the largest collections of its kind in the Library of Congress-but he did much more than acquire songs. He preserved and promoted the Appalachian mountain tradition for generations of people, founding in 1928 the Mountain Dance and Fol...