This website is administered by Robert Austin, Mabee-Simpson Library, Lyon College, Batesville, Arkansas.
Phone 870-307-7509.

It was designed and produced by Gene Hyde, with production assistance, editing, and HTML song coding by Judy Blackwell.

Special thanks to Nancy Griffith for her hard work transcribing, indexing, and cross-referencing the songs in this collection. Without her efforts, this webpage would not be possible.

Kenton Adler provided technical consultation and free advice.

Thanks to the Rhodes College Archives, Memphis, Tennessee, for permission to use the oval photo of John Quincy Wolf, Jr. on the main webpage logo, and the photo of Wolf with Bukka White.

Thanks to the Special Collections Division, University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville, for permission to use the photo of Calico Rock -- White River, that serves as the backdrop for the main logo and all the section page logos. The photo is from Art Work of the State of Arkansas by George B. Rose (Racine, WI: Harney Photogravure, 1905)

Thanks to the Memphis Commercial Appeal and to photographer Fred J. Griffith for permission to use the Sacred Harp singing photos, and to the Commercial Appeal for the classroom photo of Wolf.

Thanks to Dr. Brooks Blevins for permission to reprint
an edited version of the Ozark bibliography from
Hill Folks: A History of Arkansas Ozarkers and Their Image

Thanks to Dr. George Lankford for permission to reprint
John Quincy Wolf: An Appreciation

The Sacred Harp in Northeast Mississippi reprinted with permission of Mississippi Folklife, published by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi.

Aunt Caroline Dye: The Gypsy in the "St. Louis Blues" reprinted with permission of The University Press of Kentucky.