Virgil Sturgill

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Virgil Sturgill (born 1897 in Carter County, Kentucky) was a ballad singer and dulcimer player. He was a friend of Cratis Williams. His performances were recorded in "Southern Mountain Folksongs and Ballads" (1955) and "Bury Me Beneath the Willow: A Treasury of Southern Mountain Folksongs and Ballads" (1950s). Eastern Kentucky University contains his collection, "Summer in Kentucky and other poems" (1928).[1]

The Library of Congress possesses the following recording by Sturgill: One 10-inch tape of songs sung with dulcimer accompaniment by Virgil L. Sturgill, originally of Sutton's Branch, Kentucky. Recorded at the Library of Congress by Herman Norwood, June 1951. (1 hour; LWO 1821).[2]

References

  1. ^ http://www.library.appstate.edu/appcoll/ead2002/208virgil.xml/ead2html#id179136684
  2. ^ "Kentucky Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture (The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress)". www.loc.gov.
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