Blues musician Buck Thompson playing on his porch/The Trivettes playing at Fred Perry's house

Guitarist

Musicians

Fieldwork

Research methods

Collecting

Porches

Blues (Music)

African Americans

Musical tradition, African diaspora

Guitarists

Guitar

Architecture

Music performance

String bands

String instruments

Bluegrass musicians

Blues singers

One proof sheet, with 32 black and whites images (plus negatives). Twenty-six images of fifty-year old blues guitarist Buck Thompson playing tunes that he learned from the radio on his front porch. A lifelong migrant farmer, he played the juke circuit in the 1950s. A sound recording of the performance can be found in S 1714, box 6 reels 23 and 24. Also includes six images of the Trivette family playing bluegrass in Fred Perry's home in St. Augustine. Players consisted of Frank Trivette Sr.(banjo, fiddle) Frank Trivette Jr. (guitar), Doug Trivette (guitar), Buddy Beck (mandolin) and Carlos Brackett (bass). In winter 1985, the Bureau contracted with two folklorists to conduct a folk arts survey of the St. Johns River basin in northeastern Florida. The St. Johns River is the largest and most used river in Florida, supporting much river commerce as well as a modest amount of commercial fishing. Folklorists Mary Anne McDonald and Kathleen Figgen conducted the survey from January through March 1985 under the direction of Folklife Coordinator Blanton Owen and Bureau Chief Ormond Loomis. Documentation compiled in the survey was used to prepare and present the St. Johns River Basin Folklife Area at the 1985 Florida Folk Festival.

State Archives of Florida, Series S1577

1985-02

Florida Folklife Program

Still Image

S1577

19

104

Photographic prints

P86-1

St. Johns River Survey

Owen, Blanton, 1945-1998

Thompson, Albert Buck

Trivettes, The

African American

6954

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