Urban Pioneers interview with Jim Sorrels, July 31, 2007 (Cassette Recording Side A)

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Title Urban Pioneers interview with Jim Sorrels, July 31, 2007 (Cassette Recording Side A)
Alternative Title Polly Stewart Oral History Project: Interview with Jim Sorrels
Links to Media https://stream.lib.utah.edu/index.php?c=portable_details&id=9672
Creator Sorrels, Jim; Bateman, Jennifer
Contributor Stewart, Polly, 1943-2013
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date 2007-07-31
Date Digital 2013-06-21
Temporal Coverage July 31, 2007
Description Recording of an interview by Polly Stewart with Jim Sorrels, a participant in the Utah folk music scene of the 1960s. Jennifer Bott [now Bateman] served as sound engineer. Transcript by Laura R. Marcus [now Green]. One of the interview recordings that Polly Stewart and Jennifer Bott conducted for the Utah Folk Music Revival Oral History Project, 2004-2011
Spatial Coverage Salt Lake City (Utah)
Subject Sorrels, Jim--Interviews; Folk singers--Utah--Interviews; Musicians--Utah--Interviews; Folk music--Utah
Keywords Jim Sorrels; Folk revival; Urban Pioneers; Oral history; Interviews
Table of Contents 1. Early interest in jazz music/getting into theater; 2. Meeting and marrying Rosalie Sorrels/getting into playing and collecting folk music/starting to teach guitar; 3. Working with folklorist Wayland Hand/beginning of Rosalie Sorrels's recording and performing career/studying folk songs; 4. Basic background information about Jim Sorrels/working for the Western Electric Company; 5. Musical background-instruments and influences; 6. Mastering and teaching the guitar/Salt Lake City-Kingston Trio connection; 7. Friendship with Bruce Phillips/developing performance style; 8. Talking about experiences in acting
Type Sound
Genre Sound recordings
Format application/pdf
Extent 47 minutes, 52 seconds
Language eng
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Is Part of The 30 interview recordings that Polly Stewart and Jennifer Bott conducted for the Utah Folk Music Revival Oral History Project
ARK ark:/87278/s6qr5g1r
Setname uu_utfolklore
ID 716439
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6qr5g1r
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