June Appal Recordings is a record label that was founded by Jack Wright and established by
Appalshop
Appalshop is a media, arts, and education center located in Whitesburg, Kentucky, in the heart of the southern Appalachian region of the United States.
History
Appalshop was founded in 1969 as the Appalachian Film Workshop, a project of the U ...
to record and distribute music of and from central
Appalachia. Artists with June Appal include
Buell Kazee, Morgan Sexton,
Lee Sexton
Lee Sexton (March 23, 1928 – February 10, 2021) was an American banjo player from Letcher County, Kentucky. He began playing the banjo at the age of eight and was proficient in the two-finger picking and "drop-thumb" (clawhammer) traditional st ...
, Carla Gover, and
Nimrod Workman. June Appal distributes compilation recordings taken from the annual Seedtime on the Cumberland festival in
Whitesburg, Kentucky
Whitesburg is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Letcher County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 2,139 at the 2010 census and an estimated 1,875 in 2018. It was named for C. White, a state politician.
Geography
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Catalog
Other Recordings
See also
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Appalshop
Appalshop is a media, arts, and education center located in Whitesburg, Kentucky, in the heart of the southern Appalachian region of the United States.
History
Appalshop was founded in 1969 as the Appalachian Film Workshop, a project of the U ...
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List of record labels
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Lists of record labels cover record labels, brands or trademarks associated with marketing of music recordings and music videos. The lists are organized alphabetically, b ...
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American record labels
Appalachian culture in Kentucky
Folk record labels
American folk music
Old-time music
Whitesburg, Kentucky
1974 establishments in Kentucky