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Samantha Bumgarner and Eva Davis
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Uncle Dave Macon
- Sid Harkreader
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- Uncle Dave Macon: A Study in Repertoire- Yates
Ernest Stoneman
Roba Stanley
Kelly Harrell- 1925
The Hill Billies; Al Hopkins and His Buckle Buster
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Carl T. Sprague
Gid Tanner and The Skillet Lickers- 1926
- Gid Tanner Bio
- Clayton McMichen Biography
- Marcus Lowell Stokes
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Otto Gray and his Cowboy Band
- First Cowboy Band- Shirley (Gray interview) 1959
Burnett and Rutherford
Carolina Tar Heels- 1927
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Jimmie Rodgers
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Harry “Haywire Mac” McClintock- 1928
Jimmie Davis
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- Cliff Carlisle Biography
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Eli Oberstein- A & R Man for Bluebird
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Tex Ritter
Western Swing & Honky Tonk Years 1933-1948
Red Foley 1933
Light Crust Doughboys 1933
Milton Brown and his Musical Brownies 1934
- Interview with Roy Lee Brown
- Interview with Roy Lee Brown
Sons of the Pioneers/ Roy Rogers 1934
Ray Whitley 1934
Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys 1935
J.E. Mainer/ Mainer’s Mountaineers 1935
Monroe Brothers: Bill Monroe; Charlie Monroe 1936
Blue Sky Boys 1936
Roy Acuff 1936
Ernest Tubb 1936
Al Dexter 1936
The Coon Creek Girls 1938
Ted Daffan’s Texans 1940
Edden Hammons; Hammons Family
- Edden Hammons: Portrait of a West Virginia Fiddler
- Eden Hammonds Collection- Vol. 1 Yates
Stamper Family- Hiram; Charlie; Art
- Hiram Stamper (1893-1992)
- Charlie Stamper (Jan. 28, 1930- )
- Art Stamper (1933- 2005)
Nathan Hicks; Frank Proffitt; Hicks Family
- Early Hicks (Hix) Immigrants-- Mainly Virginia
  - Captain Robert Hicks- Indian Trader (mid-1600s)
  - John Hicks (1670) & Rebeckah Rives (1692) Surry Co
    - Nathan[3] Hicks b.1740 (Robert 2; John 1) Sussex
  - John Hixe (1658) and Sarah Preston (Virginia)
    - John Hixe and Sarah - online article
    - John Hix- Sara Preston Chart--done in 2003
  - Samuel Hix (Hicks) Sr. b. 1695 and Dianah Willis
  - William Hix (Hicks; Hux) workpage 1600s-1820
    - William Hix (b 1760s)/ Hannah Garrard VA-WV-KY
    - William Hix Sr. b. 7-13-1748 VA d. KY chart
  - John Hix (Hicks, Hickes) 1600s- 1700s Workpage
  - Henry Hix (Hicks) 1600s- 1700s Mainly Virginia
  - David Hicks (Hix) Workpage 1600s - 1820
  - Robert Hicks (Hix) Workpage 1600s-1820 VA-NC
    - Robert Hicks- Winnifred Combs (Summers) KY 1775
  - John Hix (b. 1685) m. Denias - Sussex Co. VA line
  - George Hicks (SC) Col. George Early 1700s wk page
  - James Hicks (Hix) Workpage pre 1860
  - Joseph Hicks (Hix) Workpage pre1850
  - Thomas Hicks (Hix) Workpage- pre1850 VA NC SC
  - Hicks- Georgia (Bugg) 1700s-1850 Richmond Co.
- Samuel Hix (Hicks) Sr. and Dianah Willis
- David Hix (Hicks)- Father of "Big Sammy"
- Council Harmon; Harmon (Hermann) Family
- Big Sammy Hicks- 1753 -1835 Father of Sabra
- Ray Hicks
  - Ray Hicks and the Doctors
- Tom Dooley
- Frank Proffitt; Nathan Hick's son-in-law
  - "Good Memories For Me" by Frank Proffitt
  - Frank Proffit Sings Folk Songs- Liner Notes 1962
- Jack, Alive and Well on Beech Mountain- Baldwin
- Tales from the Southern Blue Ridge- 1925
- Mrs. Jane Hicks Gentry- Storyteller & Singer
- Books about Hicks- Harmon- Ward Families
- Ward Family; Tab Ward
  - Wade Ward; Crockett Ward of Independence Va.
- Johnny Ray Hicks- Crossvile Criminal CD notes
- Dee Hicks; Tennessee Hicks Family
- Hicks Family Records- Marriage, Birth, Land, Bible
  - Hicks (Hix) Land Patents, Indentures, Grants
- Goochland County Hix (Hicks) before 1820
  - Samuel Hicks (b.1695) and Diana Willis CHART
  - Hix/Hicks Goochland Court Records 1728-1785
  - Hix-Hicks Goochland Co. Deeds 1700s & Henrico
  - James Johnson (James Johnson Hix) Goochland
  - Goochland Hix (Hicks) Workpage pre 1820
- Sir Robert Hicks and Big Daddy Sir John (d.1492)
- Granville Co. NC; Hicks from NY; Hicks from VA
- Robert Hicks- Ester Luten; Chowan Co. NC
- Early Hicks (Hix) NY, New England pre1800
- Surry Co. & Brunswick Co. Early Hicks pre 1820
- Presnell Families- Lee Monroe; Hattie
Roots, Old-time & Bluegrass Articles
- The Blues As Folk-Songs; Scarborough
- Songs And Rhymes From The South- Perrow
- John Hardy by John Harrington Cox
- Ballads and Rhymes from Kentucky- JOAFL 1907
- Folk-Songs and Folk-Poetry of the Southern Negroes
- Southern Recording Trip- John and Ruby Lomax 1939
  - Come On And Bow Down- James "Iron Head" Baker
- Southern Recording Trip 2- John & Ruby Lomax 1939
  - All The Pretty Little Horses- Shirley Lomax Mansel
  - Angels Standin' In De Water- Rev. Eason
- Ballads & Songs of Western North Carolina- Bascom
- The Play-Party In Notheast Missouri- Hamilton
- The Missouri Play-Party- Ames 1911
- Some Play-Party Songs from Eastern Illinois
- Songs from the Mountains of North Carolina- JOAFL
- Notes On Folk-Lore Of Texas- Prescott Webb 1915
- Some Play-Party Games in Michigan- Gardner 1920
- Songs from Kentucky- Florence Truitt 1923 JOAFL
- Spirituals from St. Helena, SC- JOAFL 1925
- Ballads and Songs from Mississippi- Hudson 1926
- Note on a Lying Song- G. L. Kittredge JOAFL 1926
- Some Negro Song Variants from Louisville- 1928
- Spirituals from the Bahamas- Parsons 1928
- Ballads and Songs of the Southern Highlands- Henry
- The Ozark Play-Party- Vance Randolph 1929
- The Lexington Girl- Melinger Henry 1929
- Pearl Bryant: Variant of American Folk Song 1929
- Spirituals from Alabama- Terrell 1930 JOAFL
- More Songs from the Southern Highlands- Henry 1931
- The Play Party in Idaho- Ball JOAFL 1931
- Negro Songs from Georgia- Mellinger Henry 1931
- Negro Songs from the Pedee Country- Bass 1931
- Southern Illinois Folk Songs- McIntosh 1938
- Some Songs from Tennessee and North Carolina- 1933
- Nursery Rhymes and Game-Songs from Georgia- 1934
- Game-Songs from Southern Indiana- Brewster 1936
- Songs of the Cumberlands- Owens 1936 JOAFL
- Folk Songs of Chicago Negroes- Longini 1939
- Kentucky Folksong in Northern Wisconsin- Treat
- Some Party-Games of the Great Smoky Mountains
- Play-Party Songs in Western Maryland- Warnick 1941
- Children's Songs and Rhymes of the Porter Family
- Changing Patterns in Negro Folk Songs- Work 1949
- Songs from Rappahannock County, Virginia- 1950
- The Skillet Lickers: A Study of a Hillbilly String
- Anglo-Texan Spirituals- Owens 1982
- Hillbilly Music: Source and Symbol- Archie Green
- An Intro to the Study of Hillbilly Music- Wilgus
- An Introduction to Bluegrass- Smith 1965 JOAFL
- Hillbilly Music: Source and Resource- Ed Kahn
- Song-Games of Negro Children in Virginia- 1890
- Negro Songs and Folk-Lore- Speers 1910 JOAFL
- More Songs from the Southern Appalachians- 1915
- Some Play-Party Games of the Middle West- Piper
- Nine Negro Spirituals 1850-1861 from S. Carolina
- Some Texas Play-Party Songs- Dudley & Payne 1916
- Some Negro Folk-Songs from Tennessee- Odum 1914
- Negro Folk-Lore in South Carolina- Davis 1914 JOAF
- Still More BalladsSongs from the Southern Highland
- Kentucky Folk-Songs- Shearin 1911
- The Forget-Me-Not Songsters- Norm Cohen
- The Legend of the Hanged Fiddler- Wilgus
- Hillbilly Version Gussie Davis's "Fatal Wedding"
- Hog Drivers' Play-Song- Burnett 1949
- Tin Pan Alley's Contribution to Folk Music- Cohen
- Types of the Folk Song "Father Grumble"- Moore
- Frank Noah Proffitt (1913-1965)- Obituary- Warners
- Vance Randolph (1892-1980) Obituary- Halpert
- The Miller and His Sons- Richard Chase 1935
- The White Man in the Woodpile- N. I. White 1929
- Folk-Lore from Vir., S.C., Georgia, Ala., and Fla.
- "Rose Connoley" An Irish Ballad- D. K. Wilgus
- The Ancestry of "The House-Carpenter"
- The "Braes of Yarrow" Tradition in America- Coffin
- Daniel Wyatt Tate: Singer from Fancy Gap- Yates
- Smith, Jenkins, and Early Commercial Gospel Music
- Samuel Hall's Family Tree- Bronson
- The Case of John Lomax- Hirsch 1992
- The Southern Textile Song Tradition Reconsidered
- A Return Visit to the Appalachian Mountains
- Games of Washington Children- Babcock 1886
- A Group of Indiana Folksongs- Halpert 1944
- A Check List of Ternnessee Folk-Songs- 1946
- Some Ballads From North Carolina- John Lomax
- American Songs for American Children- Botkin
  - I. Jennie Jenkins; John Henry
  - II. Cpt Jinks; Down in Valley; My Lover; So Long
  - III. Jinny Crack; New River; Rattler; Drill Ye
  - IV. Farmer; Young Man Who Wouldn't; Wayfaring
  - V. Risselty; All Around the Maypole; Old Blue
  - VI. Hog Drovers; Rolly Trudum; Darby Ram
- The Quest of the Lonesome Tunes- Brockway 1917
- The Route of "Bonaparte's Retreat"- Stephen Wade
- George P. Knauff's Virginia Reels
- The Three Doc(k)s: White Blues in Appalachia
- The Hindman Settlement School and Its Music
- British Ballads in the Cumberland Mountains- 1911
- Two Popular Ballads- Kittredge 1908
- The Lexington Girl- Mellinger Henry 1929
- Ballads and Songs- G. L. Kittredge 1917
- The Berea Tune Lists
- Berea Fiddle Contests 1919- 1928
- "Sinful Songs" of the Southern Negro
- Casey Jones: At the Crossroads of Two Ballad Trads
- Frank Proffitt: Good Times and Hard Times
- Hymnals of the Black Church- Eileen Southern
- Baptist Hymnody in Southern Appalachia
- Congregational Singing Tradition in South Carolina
- Folk Element in Early Revival Hymns and Tunes
- Folk-Songs of the American Negro- Joseph Smith
- The Origin of Negro Traditions- Thomas Talley
- British Ballads in the Cumberland Mountains- 1911
- "Following Music" in a Mountain Land- McGill 1917
- Jilson Setters: The Last Minstrel- Thomas 1928
- Text, Title, Tune, Interrelations US Fiddle Music
- An American Homiletic Ballad- Barry 1913
- Reds, Whites, and the Blues: Lawrence Gellert
- Afro-American Song in the Nineteenth Century
- Hymnals of the Black Church- Eileen Southern 1989
- The Singing South: Folk-Song in Recent Fiction
- "Reynardine": A Broadside Ballad of Seduction
- British Folk Song in America 1916-1958
- The Career of "John Henry"- Dorson 1965
- Twenty Folk Hymns- Mary O. Eddy
- Traditional Texts and Tunes- Tolman & Eddy 1922
- Mary Hamilton; The Group Authorship of Ballads
- Some Songs Traditional in the United States
- Two Camp Songs- Jane Bagby 1948
- Negro Hymnology- W.A. Barrett 1872
- Negro Songs and Singers- Edward King 1874
- A Note on "Springfield Mountain"- Smith 1936
- Robert W. Gordon and the Second Wreck of Old 97
- High Culture, Low Culture: Library of Congress
- Ballads and Folksongs from West Virginia
- The Old Album of William A. Larkin
- West Virginia's Omie Wise- Milnes 1995
- Lists and Classifications of Folksongs- Taylor
- A Fraudulent "Elfin Knight" from West Virginia
- History, Symbol, and Meaning in 'The Cruel Mother'
- Ho for Eastern Kentucky!- Elliott 1950
- An Introduction to James Madison Carpenter
- Ballads Surviving in the United States- Smith 1916
- Five Old-Country Ballads- JOAFL 1912
- Traditional Ballads from Utah- 1951 JOAFL
- Black Musicians in Appalachia- Hay 2003
- Ballads- 1905 Kidson Sharp Broadwood Williams
- Twa Sisters- English, Scottish, American Versions
- Some Folk-Ballads and the Background of History
- Mid-Hudson Song and Verse- JOAFL 1953
- Songs I Sang on an Iowa Farm- Cromwell 1958
- Folk Song Studies in Idaho- Brunvand 1965
- Notes on Negro Music- Peabody 1903 JOAFL
- Negro Songs- Ian Cameron 1922
- Two African-American Songs From 1856
- African-American Music from Southern Workman
  - Afro-American Folksongs: A Review Vol. 43, 1919
  - Negro Music of the South- Vol. 22, 1893
  - Negro Folk Songs- Vol. 24, 1895
- Sam Bennett as Collected by Sharp & Carpenter
- Negro Spirituals- Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1867
  - Thomas Wentworth Higginson- Bowen 1915
- Cowboy Songs of the Mexican Border- Lomax 1911
- Thorp & Lomax: Oral or Written Transmission?
- Sam Bass: "The Ballad and the Man"
- On the Eastern Shore- Bergen 1989 JOAFL
- Folk-Songs of the Civil War- Williams 1892 JOAFL
- Letter from Ole Bull to Sara Thorp- 1869
- "Lady Isabel and the Elf-Knight" from Maryland
- Shenandoah- Gilchrist 1931
- Negro Folk Expression: Various Songs
- Thematic Pattern in Downhome Blues Lyrics- Titon
- Negro Songs from Barbados- Bowditch 1887
- Again the Negro- Curtis 1917
- Negro Folk Songs- Tuskegee Institute
- Religious Folk-Beliefs of Whites and Negroes
- The Child Ballad in Canada: A Survey
- William Motherwell as Field Collector- McCarthy
- Ancient Ballads of North Scotland- Motherwell
- Ballad Collections of the Eighteenth Century
- Old Ballad Burthens- Josephine McGill 1918
- A Note on the "Herb" and Other Refrains- Gilchrist
- About the Commonest British Ballads- Bronson 1957
- "Following Music" in a Mountain Land- McGill 1917
- Some Rarities from Arkansas- Cray 1959
- Isaac Garfield Greer’s Ballad Collection
- Isaac Garfield Greer (1881-1967)- Hudson 1968
- Watson of Deep Gap: A Retrospective- Ward 1975
- Dock Boggs in Thomas Jefferson's Virginia
- The Anglo-Saxons of the Kentucky Mountains
- Woody Guthrie and His Folk Tradition
- "All the Songs in the World" Emma Dusenbury Story
- Ballad of the Bold Northwestman- Kendrick
- Some Fusions in Missouri Ballads- Barbour 1936
- Folksongs in Rural New York State- Ward 1988
- That’s the Way They Lived- Warners 1966
- Popular Ballads Recorded in Knoxville, TN 1938
- Dialect Notes- Josiah Combs; 1917
- Folk Songs from Wisconsin- Stratman-Thomas 1939
- Some Real American Music- Miles 1904
- The English Ballad in Jamaica- Beckwith 1924
- Folk-Lore in Michigan- Bertrand L. Jones 1914
- Spirituals & Folklore from the Bahamas- Parsons
- Negro Songs from the Pedee Country- Bass 1931
- The Ballad Sheet and Garland- Frank Kidson 1905
- The Famous Ballads of Anna Gordon, Mrs. Brown.
- The Gin-Around; from Godey's Lady's Book, 1874
Roots; Old-time; Folk; Bluegrass Books
- Syllabus of Kentucky Folk-Songs- Shearin & Combs
- Brown Collection of NC Folklore- Volume 3
  - Brown Collection- I. Courting Songs
  - Brown Collection- II. Drinking and Gambling Songs
  - Brown Collection- III. Homiletic Songs
  - Brown Collection- IV. Play-Party and Dance Songs
  - Brown Collection- V. Lullabies and Nursery Rhymes
  - Brown Collection- VI. Jingles About Animals
  - Brown Collection VII. Work Songs
  - Brown Collection- VIII. Folk Lyric
  - Brown Collection- IX. Satirical Songs
  - Brown Collection- X. Songs of Prisoners & Tramps
  - Brown- XI. Marital, Political & Patriotic Songs
  - Brown- XII. Minstrel and Secular Negro Songs
  - Brown Collection- XIII. Religious Songs
  - Additional Songs from Volume V
  - Children's Games and Rhymes Volume 5
- The Negro and his Songs- Odum & Johnson 1925
  - Chapter I. Presenting the Singer and His Song
  - Chapter II. The Religious Songs of the Negro
  - Chapter III. Examples of Religious Songs
  - Chapter IV. Examples of Religious Songs, Concluded
  - Chapter V. The Social Songs of the Negro
  - Chapter VI. Examples of Social Songs
  - Chapter VII. Examples of Social Songs, Concluded
  - Chapter VIII. The Work Songs of the Negro
  - Chapter IX. Imagery, Style, and Poetic Effort
- The Negro Sings A New Heaven- Grissom 1930
- Negro Workaday Songs- Odum & Johnson 1926
  - I. Background Resources in Negro Song and Work
  - II. The Blues: Workaday Sorrow Songs
  - III. Songs of the Lonesome Road
  - IV. Bad Man Ballads and Jamboree
  - V. Songs of Jail, Chain Gang, and Policemen
  - VI. Songs of Construction Camps and Gangs
  - VII. Just Songs to Help With Work
  - VIII. Man's Song of Woman
  - IX. Woman's Song of Man
  - X. Folk Minstrel Types
  - XI. Workaday Religious Songs
  - XII. The Annals and Blues of Left Wing Gordon
  - XIII. John Henry: Epic of the Negro Workingman
  - XIV. Types of Negro Melodies
  - XV. Types of Records of Negro Singers
- English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians
  - I. Ballads
    - 1. The False Knight Upon the Road
  - II. Songs
  - III. Nursery Songs
  - IV. Jigs
  - V. Play-Party Games
- American Songbag- Carl Sandburg 1927
  - Dramas and Portraits
  - The Ould Sod
  - Minstrel Songs
  - Tarnished Love Tales or Colonial & Rev. Antiques
  - Frankie and her Man
  - Pioneer Memories
  - Kentucky Blazing Star
  - The Lincolns and Hankses
  - Great Lakes and Erie Canal
  - Hobo Songs
  - The Big Brutal City
  - Prison and Jail Songs
  - Blues, Mellows, Ballets
  - The Great Open Spaces
  - Mexican Border Songs
  - Southern Mountains
  - Picnic and Hayride Follies, Close Har., Ditties
  - Railroads and Work Gangs
  - Lunberjacks, Loggers, Shanty-Boys
  - Sailormen
  - Bandit Biographies
  - Five Wars
  - Lovely People
  - Road To Heaven
- Afro-American Folksongs; Henry Krehbiel 1914
  - Chapter I. Folksongs in General
  - Chapter II. Songs of the American Slaves
  - Chapter III. Religious Character of the Songs
  - Chapter IV. Modal Characteristics of the Songs
  - Chapter V. Music Among the Africans
  - Chapter VI. Variations from the Major Scale
  - Chapter VII. Minor Variations & Typical Rhythms
  - Chapter VIII. Features of the Poems; Funeral Music
  - Chapter IX. Dances of the American Negroes
  - Chapter X. Songs of the Black Creoles
  - Chapter XI. Satirical Songs of the Creoles
- On The Trail Of Negro Folk-Songs; Scarborough
  - I. On the Trail of Negro Folk-Songs
  - II. Negro's Part Transmitting Songs and Ballads
  - III. Negro Ballads
  - IV. Dance-Songs or "Reels"
  - V. Children's Game Songs
  - VI. Lullabies
  - VII. Songs About Animals
  - VIII. Work Songs
  - IX. Railroad Songs
  - X. Blues
  - Afterward
- American Ballads and Folk Songs- John & Alan Lomax
  - I. Working on The Railroad
  - II. The Levee Camp
  - III. Songs From Southern Chain Gangs
  - IV. Negro Bad Men
  - V. White Desperadoes
  - VI. Songs From The Mountains
  - VII. Cocaine and Whisky
  - VIII. The Blues
  - IX. Creole Negroes
  - X. "Reels"
  - XI. Minstrel Types
  - XII. Breakdowns and Play-Parties
  - XIII. Songs of Childhood
  - XIV. Miscellany
  - XV. Vaqueros of the Southwest
  - XVI. Cowboy Songs
  - XVII. Songs of the Overlanders
  - XVIII. The Miner
  - XIX. The Shanty-Boy
  - XX. The Erie Canal
  - XXI. The Great Lakes
  - XXII. Sailors and Sea Fights
  - XXIII. Wars and Soldiers
  - XXIV. White Spirituals
  - XXV. Negro Spirituals
- Negro Folk Rymes- Wise and Otherwise- Talley
  - I. Dance Rhyme Section
  - II. Dance Rhyme Song Section
  - III. Play Rhyme Section
  - IV. Pastime Rhyme Section
  - V. Love Ryme Section
  - VI. Courtship Rhyme Section
  - VII. Marriage & Married Life Rhyme Section
  - VIII. Nursery Rhyme Section
  - IX. Blessings
  - X. Wise Sayings
  - XI. Foreign Rhyme Section
  - PART II- A STUDY IN NEGRO FOLK RHYMES
- Our Singing Country- John A. Lomax & Alan Lomax
  - I. Religious Songs: 1. Negro Spirituals
  - I. Religious Songs: 2. White Religious Songs
  - II. Social Songs: 1. White Dance Tunes
  - II. Social Songs: 2. Negro Game Songs
  - II. Social Songs: 3. Bahaman Negro Songs
  - II. Social Songs: 4. Lullabies
  - II. Social Songs: 5. Whoppers
  - II. Social Songs: 6. Courting Songs
  - II. Social Songs: 7. Old-Time Love Songs
  - II. Social Songs: 8. French Songs- Louisiana
  - III. Men at Work: 1. Soldiers & Sailors
  - III. Men at Work: 2. Lumberjacks & Teamsters
  - III. Men at Work: 3. Cowboy Songs
  - III. Men at Work: 3. Railroaders & Hobos
  - III. Men at Work: 5. Miner's Songs
  - III. Men at Work: 6. Farmers of the South
  - IV. Outlaws
  - V. Hollers and Blues
  - VI. Negro Gang Songs
- Bahama Songs and Stories- Charles Edwards 1895
  - I. Bahama Songs
  - II. Bahama Stories
- Brown Collection of NC Folklore- Volume 2 Ballads
  - Music of the Older Ballads- Mostly British
  - Native American Ballads
  - Additional Ballads from Volume 4
- Checklist of Recorded Folk Songs Before 1940
  - Checklist of Recorded Folk Songs: Vol. 1; A-K
  - Checklist of Recorded Folk Songs: Vol. 2; L-Z
  - Checklist of Recorded Folk Songs: Vol. 3 Index
- The Kentucky Highlanders- Josiah Combs 1913
- Collection of Revival Hymns & Plantation Melodies
  - Hymns 1-50
  - Hymns 51-100
  - Hymns 101- 170
- Poetic Origins and the Ballad- Louise Pound 1921
  - I. The Beginnings Of Poetry
  - II. The Mediaeval Ballad And The Dance
  - III. Ballads And The Illiterate
  - IV. The Ballad Style
  - V. The English Ballads And The Church
  - VI. Balladry In America
- American Ballads and Songs- Louise Pound 1922
  - 1. English and Scottish Ballads in America
  - 2. Other Imported Ballads and Songs
  - 3. Native Ballads and Songs
  - 4. Songs of Criminals and Outlaws
  - 5. Western Ballads and Songs
  - 6. Miscellaneous Ballads and Songs
  - 7. Dialogue, Nursery, and Game Songs
- The British Traditional Ballad in North America
  - A Description of Variation- Footnotes
  - A Critical Biographical Study
  - An Index to Borrowing
- Folk-Songs of the South- John Harrington Cox 1925
  - 1. Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight
  - 2. Earl Brand
  - 3. The Twa Sisters
  - 4. Lord Randal
  - 5. The Cruel Mother