Video
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Ray & Rosa Hicks
“The Last of the Old-Time Storytellers”
A PBS documentary film on one year in the life of America’s patriarch of storytellers, Ray Hicks and his wife Rosa. Special thanks to Jane and Charles Hadley.
Stanley & Ray Hicks
Roving Gambler (1982) – Alan Lomax Archive
Ray Hicks
Rubin (1982) – Alan Lomax Archive
Ray Hicks
On Hunting with Jack (1982) – Alan Lomax Archive
Professor Thomas Burton
Interviewing Ray, Stanley Hicks, Miss Buena Vista Hicks and more! If you are interested in learning how to make moonshine, skip to 8:24! (Thanks to ETSU Archive)
The following videos are from a Benefit in May 2012 honoring and raising funds for the Hicks family. Family and friends of Ray Hick’s gathered together to tell “Jack tales.”
Gwenda Ledbetter
& David Novak
Telling “Jack & the Robbers” & “Jack & the Beanstalk” at benefit May 2012
Vixi Jil Glenn
Telling an original Jack Tale & song “Burglar Man” at benefit May 2012
Connie Regan-Blake
Telling about Hicks family & “Big Jack, Little Jack” at benefit May 2012
Ted Hicks
Telling “Jack & the Heifer Hide” at benefit May 2012
Rosa Hicks
Singing “The New River Train” with Ted & audience at benefit May 2012