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Staging Tradition: John Lair and Sarah Gertrude Knott.(Book review)

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From: Sing Out!
Date: 20070101
Author:Weir, R.

Staging Tradition: John Lair and Sarah Gertrude Knott By Michael Ann Williams University of Illinois Press (Champaign), 2006, ISBN 0252073444, 221 pages, pbk., $20

Honors have been heaped upon public folklorists such as Archie Green, Ben Botkin, Bess Lomax Hawes and Joe Wilson, yet not Wilson's predecessor as director of the National Folk Festival and its founder, Sarah Gertrude Knott. Artists such as Red Foley, Whitey Ford, Lily May Ledford and Homer and Jethro have been lionized, but the man who discovered them, John Lair, is better known for writing "Freight Train Blues" ...

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