- Collection:
- Georgia Folklore Collection
- Title:
- Video of Harvie Sims, Toccoa, Georgia, 1991 February 4
- Creator:
- Rosenbaum, Art
- Date of Original:
- 1991-02-04
- Subject:
- Blues (music)--Georgia--Toccoa
Folk music--Georgia--Toccoa
Guitarists--Georgia--Toccoa
Guitar music--Georgia--Toccoa
African American musicians--Georgia--Toccoa
Women blues musicians--Georgia--Toccoa
Sharecropping--Georgia--Toccoa
Corn--Husking--Georgia--Toccoa
Guitar teachers--Georgia--Toccoa
Aunts--Georgia--Toccoa
Plantations--Georgia--Toccoa
Blues musicians
Hooker, John Lee
King, B. B.
Fuller, Blind Boy, 1907-1941 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Stephens County, Toccoa, 34.57732, -83.33239
- Medium:
- field recordings
- Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Video of Harvie Sims performing guitar in Toccoa, Georgia, on February 4, 1991. Between songs, Sims is interviewed about his history with music. At the beginning of the video Sims speaks about how he learned guitar from his aunt, along with his other cousins. His aunt taught guitar locally, and played into old age. She taught Sims some of her original songs. His aunt performed music at corn-shucking parties on the Jeff Davis plantation in the 1920's. These parties were thrown by sharecroppers, wherein the sharecroppers would shuck corn while they were entertained by music. He talks about older musicians who still live in Toccoa, such as Ray Ritchie. He plays several blues songs, including Good Night Irene. Between songs Sims talks about musicians that he likes, such as John Lee Hooker, B.B. King, and Blind Boy Fuller, among others.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:ugabma_gfc_gfc-2001
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/ugabma/gfc/do:gfc-2001
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 film : circa 71 minutes
- Original Collection:
- Georgia Folklore Collection, Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia
- Holding Institution:
- Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection
- Rights:
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