Deseret String Band Collection,

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1 Overview of the Collection Creator Cannon, Hal and Leonard Coulson. Title Deseret String Band Collection Dates (inclusive) Quantity 20 boxes, 30 posters, (13 linear feet) Collection Number USU_FOLK COLL 52 Summary This collection contains the working files of the Deseret String Band. Repository Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives Division Special Collections and Archives Merrill-Cazier Library Utah State University Logan, UT Telephone: Fax: Access Restrictions Restrictions Open to public research. To access the collection a patron must have the following information: collection number, box number and folder/reel/ number. The materials do not circulate and are available in USU's Special Collections and Archives. Patrons must sign and comply with the USU Special Collections and Archives Use Agreement and Reproduction Order form as well as any restrictions placed by the collector or informant(s). Languages English Biographical Note The Deseret String Band formed in 1972 and has performed throughout the US, Europe and Japan. The band s purpose was to explore pioneer and cowboy music of the 19th century West. It acquired a few aliases through the years, including The Bunkhouse Orchestra, The Orchestre de Bunque, The String Band of Desire and Secondhand Band. Playing fiddle, banjo, guitar, mandolin, banjo-mandolin, banjo-cello, harmonica, various squeeze boxes and pitched fork, the band performs dozens of dance tunes, pioneer ballads, cowboy songs and old country melodies. The roots of the band are in the early 1970s in Rhode Island when Hal Cannon, Leonard Coulson, Skip Gorman and Tom Carter began playing music together. Members of the band have included: Cannon, Coulson, Groman, Carter, Mark Jardine, Stephen Jardine, Richard McClure, Ron Kane and Meghan Merker. Discography: Utah Trail (1973) Land Of Milk and Honey (1974) (LP Available in FOLK COLL 52) 1

2 New Beehive Songster, Volume 1 () New Beehive Songster, Volume 2 () Deseret String Band: (1984) (Audio Cassette Available in FOLK COLL 52) Old Cowboy Songs, Song Book and Cassette (1986) Red Steer (1990) (Audio Cassette Available in FOLK COLL 52) Utah: Songs of Statehood (1990) The Round-Up () Cluck Cluck () Content Description Collection contains band files (including clippings of band promos, bios and features, correspondence, and concert ephemera), photos, posters, vinyl recordings, VHS tapes, cassette tapes, reel to reel tapes, and CDs. Use of the Collection Restrictions on Use Copyright It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish from the owner of the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The user agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Utah State University Libraries, its officers, employees, and agents from and against all claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of copyright. Permission to publish material from the Utah State University undergraduate student fieldwork collection must be obtained from the Curator of the Fife Folklore Archives and/or the Special Collections Department Head. Preferred Citation. (FOLK COLL 52, box, folder/reel/tapes no.). Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives Department. Administrative Information Arrangement The collection is organized by like media: band files (including correspondence, newspaper clippings, and photographs), reel-to-reels, cassette tapes, posters, and video tapes. 2

3 Processing Note Processed by Mara J. Ballard, July 2012; accruals added and finding add updated by Erin Sorensen, June Robison materials added by Randy Williams, November 2012 Acquisition Information Hal Cannon contacted Randy Williams by letter on 3 May 2011 inquiring about possible deposit of the Deseret String Band Collection at USU's Special Collections and Archives Fife Folklore Archives. Randy Williams wrote back on 24 May 2011 with an enthusiastic yes. On 4 August 2011, Randy Williams and Brad Cole retrieved the collection from Hal Cannon and Leonard Coulson at Coulson's store Acoustic Music in Salt Lake City, Utah. The donation included four boxes. June 2013, Leonard Coulson donated four more boxes to the collection, including photos, posters, newspaper clippings, CDs, mini-reels, and miscellaneous materials. Brad Cole retrieved the accruals. In Fall 2012, Brent Robison contact Randy Williams with the desire of donating thirteen slides he had taken/had of the Deseret String Band at an outdoor concert in Orem, Utah, in June The donation was arranged and added to the collection November Custodial History The Deseret String Band members Hal Cannon and Leonard Coulson donated the band files to Utah State University Library Special Collections and Archives. Detailed Description of the Collection Band Files, Container(s) Description Dates Box Folder 1 1 Band Files: Promos Includes newspaper clippings, concert handbills and pamphlets, folk festival flyers, touring guides, record linear notes, and other promotional material. 1 1A Band Files: Promos Includes newspaper clippings, concert handbills and pamphlets, folk festival flyers, touring guides, record linear notes, and other promotional material. 1 2 Band Files: Promos Includes newspaper clippings, concert handbills and pamphlets, folk festival flyers, touring guides, record linear notes, and other promotional material

4 1 2A Band Files: Promos Includes newspaper clippings, concert handbills and pamphlets, folk festival flyers, touring guides, record linear notes, and other promotional material. 1 2B Band Files: Promos Includes newspaper clippings, concert handbills and pamphlets, folk festival flyers, touring guides, record linear notes, and other promotional material. 1 3 Band Files: Promos Includes newspaper clippings, concert handbills and pamphlets, folk festival flyers, touring guides, record linear notes, and other promotional material. 1 3A Band Files: Promos Includes newspaper clippings, concert handbills and pamphlets, folk festival flyers, touring guides, record linear notes, and other promotional material. 1 4 Band Files: Promos Includes newspaper clippings, concert handbills and pamphlets, folk festival flyers, touring guides, record linear notes, and other promotional material. 1A 1 Band Files: Features and Bios Includes newspaper clippings, newsletters, magazines, and awards. 1A 1A Band Files: Features and Bios Includes newspaper clippings, newsletters, magazines, and awards. 1A 2 Band Files: Correspondence and Misc. Includes postcards, cards, payment records, itineraries, performance confirmations, wedding invitations, set lists, and miscellaneous correspondence. 1A 3 Band Files: Correspondence and Misc. Includes cards, payment records, itineraries, thank you notes, performance confirmations, set lists, comic strips, and concert ephemera A 4 Band Files: Special Appearances

5 Includes special appearances at Christie Brinkley's wedding, the re-enactment of the Mormon trek, and the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics. 1A 5 Band Files: Misc. Instrument and Musician Info. Includes newspaper clippings about folk instruments and musicians, posters and pamphlets on folk instrument shows and repair businesses, and miscellaneous instrument ephemera. 1A 6 Band Files: Misc. Folk Bands Includes photos, newspaper clippings, concert handbills and pamphlets, and miscellaneous tickets for a variety of folk and bluegrass bands contemporary to the Deseret String Band. 1A 7 Band Files: Misc. Irish Folk Bands Includes concert handbills, pamphlets, and other miscellaneous concert ephemera for a variety of Irish and British folk bands contemporary to the Deseret String Band Band Photographs, Container(s) Description Dates Box Folder 2 1 Band Photographs: 3 Negatives of Album Covers 2 2 Band Photographs: 8 5x7 Black and White Concert Photos Band Photographs: 7 Misc. Photos Including photos from Christie Brinkley's wedding and other performance photos. 2 4 Band Photographs: 8 4x6/5x7 Black and White Photos Including concert photos taken in Switzerland in '75 or '76, photos taken by Howard Hickson in Elko, and other misc. concert photos. 2 5 Band Photographs: 3 Misc. Mounted Photographs 2 6 Band Photographs: 20 Misc. Photographs 5

6 Including photos from Pinesong '88, the christening of "Mighty Mary" in March 1995, band portraits, and misc. concert photos. 2 7 Band Photographs: 12 8x10 Photos Including photos from 1993 Cowboy Music Gathering, band portraits, and misc. performance photos. 2 8 Band Photographs: 8 8x10 Photos 2 9 Band Photographs: 2 Misc. 5x7 Black and White 2 10 Band Photographs: 18 Misc. 4x6/5x7 Photos 2 11 Band Photographs: Slides 13 slides Images of the Deseret String Band from an outdoor concert in Orem, Utah. Taken by Brent Robison (photo credit requested) Band Photographs: Slides 45 slides Images of Intermountain Guitar and Banjo for a feature in the Salt Lake Tribune. Taken by Al Hartmann 2 13 Band Photographs: 17 Negatives of Deseret String Band and Leonard's Banjos 1976 June Band Photographs: 30 Negatives of OKLA 2 15 Band Photographs: 14 Misc. Negatives (10008, 10007, London Zoo, and Trafalgar Sq.) 2 16 Band Photographs: 22 Misc. Negatives (MTNS W/125 hazy, Trip to NJ in Nov., and Jan. 75) 2 17 Band Photographs: 34 Misc. Negatives 2 18 Band Photographs: 31 Misc. Negatives 2 19 Band Photographs: 38 Misc. Negatives Sound Media,

7 Box Folder 3 1 Sound Media: Vinyl Recording, 45: title Sound Media: Vinyl Recording, LP, Land of Milk and Honey Tape 4 1 Audio/Visual Media: VHS Tape Deseret String Band, Rough Cut/Digital Video/No Mix (57:15) 4 2 Audio/Visual Media: VHS Tape The Frontier: Rediscovering America, Jonathan Donald Production, International Version (50:13) 4 3 Audio/Visual Media: VHS Tape Fiddle Tunes, Deseret String Band (120:00) 4 4 Audio/Visual Media: VHS Tape Fiddle Tunes 4 5 Audio/Visual Media: VHS Tape Lydia's Program 5 1 Sound Media: 5-Inch Reel to Reel Tape Okehdokee-Tails Cut Sound Media: 5-Inch Reel to Reel Tape Carbon County Music Master 5 3 Sound Media: 5-Inch Reel to Reel Tape "Oh Sisters" Soundtrack, Out-Takes 5 4 Sound Media: 5-Inch Reel to Reel Tape Out-Takes from "Utah Trail" July Sound Media: 5-Inch Reel to Reel Tape 5 6 Sound Media: 5-Inch Reel to Reel Tape 15 IPS 1/2 Track Stereo-Trails Out, The Boaster 7

8 6 1 Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape Old-Time Cowboy Songs, Bunkhouse Orchestra 6 3 Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape Gary Stratton Radio Show featuring DSB music 6 4 Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape Deseret String Band and friends and KUER 6 5 Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape Waddie and Bunkhouse, Zion 6 6 Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape Deseret String Band: Southern Utah Folklife Festival 6 7 Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape DSB-Park City, Riders in the Sky 6 8 Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape Waddie and Bunkhouse, Elko 6 9 Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape The Deseret String Band: Boise and Dogs Amongst the Bush 6 10 Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape Waddie Mitchell and the Bunkhouse Orchestra, OC Tanner Amphitheater, Springdale, UT Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape Deseret String Band: Early Oklahoma Fiddling, Dance Tunes from the Thede Collection 6 13 Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape Brigham Young-KSL 6 14 Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape Waddie and Bunkhouse, Elko (original) Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape

9 KCRL Radio Show, Uncle Lympies Low Downtown Dandelion Pickers 6 16 Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape Edited DSB concert 6 17 Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape Bunkhouse Orchestra: Old-Time Cowboy Songs 6 18 Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape Country ' Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape DSB 20th A. 7 1 Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape Deseret String Band: Kingsbury Hall with Riders in Sky 7 2 Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape The Deseret String Band: Hal's selection 7 3 Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape DSB - Tucson, AZ Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape 7 5 Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape 7 6 Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape DSB Hotel Utah Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape Northern Rockies Folk Festival 7 9 Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape DSB Kingsbury Hall 7 10 Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape DSB Bicknell, Utah (original) 7 11 Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape Tom Carter-Hal Cannon

10 7 12 Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape Deseret String Band (LP) 7 13 Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape Practice Tape II 7 14 Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape Riders in Sky-SLC (original) 7 15 Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape DSB-UT-test tape 7 16 Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape Deseret String Band, Live at Guild Theatre, Denver 7 17 Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape Deseret String Band, Planetarium songs 7 18 Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape The Deseret String Band, by Shanachie Records Corp Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape 8 2 Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape Practice Tape/dub 8 3 Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape Carbon Co. Sampler 8 4 Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape Deseret String Band, Land of Milk and Honey (master) 8 5 Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape 8 6 Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape Bunkhouse Orchestra, Old-Time Cowboy Songs (cassette master) 8 7 Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape Work Mix, Bunkhouse 8 8 Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape (Master) 10

11 8 9 Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape Deseret String Band/Rough 8 10 Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape Deseret String Band, Red Steer 8 11 Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape Bunkhouse Orchestra Practice 8 12 Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape Northern Rockies Folk Festival 8 13 Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape W and B.O. Master 8 14 Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape NPR Deseret String Band 8 15 Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape Deseret String Band, WT Recording Studios (Master) Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape 8 17 Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape Bunkhouse Orchestra - Old-Time Cowboy Songs w/out Script 8 18 Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape B.H.O. Practice Tape 8 19 Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape DSB Practice 9 1 Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape DSB 20th A. 9 2 Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape ICCRL #2 9 3 Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape DSB Weekend Edition 9 4 Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape Toms' Sauber, Carter Cannon, KRCL

12 9 5 Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape Bertian Levy and Hal Cannon 9 6 Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape The Deseret String Band, Shanachie Records 9 7 Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape Ron Kane and Hal Cannon, Snowbird Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape 9 9 Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape 9 10 Sound Media: Audio Cassette Tape Deseret String Band, Blues and Buckin' Dun, Sound Media: 11 1/2-Inch Master Tape 11 2 Sound Media: 11 1/2-Inch Master Tape 12 1 Sound Media: 7-Inch Reel to Reel Tape Deseret String Band, Original Tape (Babe, Going Down the River, Red Whiskey, Cuttin at Point, Old Paint Waltz) 12 2 Sound Media: 7-Inch Reel to Reel Tape Deseret String Band, Original Tape (Back to the Range, Yearlings in the Canebrake, Creek Nation, Boastin, Salt Lake City Blues) 12 3 Sound Media: 7-Inch Reel to Reel Tape Deseret String Band, Original Tape (Lars Mortensen Polka, Mormon Cowboy, Old Christmas, Amongst the Awful Mormons, Fore on the Mountain, Harmona) 12 4 Sound Media: 7-Inch Reel to Reel Tape Deseret String Band, Kanab Utah, Red Hills Convention Center 12 5 Sound Media: 7-Inch Reel to Reel Tape Deseret String Band, Kanab Utah, Red Hills Convention Center 12 6 Sound Media: 7-Inch Reel to Reel Tape Deseret String Band, Land of Milk and Honey

13 13 1 Sound Media: 7-Inch Reel to Reel Tape Deseret String Band, Rich Lepage Recording Services (1 of 5) 13 2 Sound Media: 7-Inch Reel to Reel Tape Deseret String Band, Rich Lepage Recording Services (2 of 5) 13 3 Sound Media: 7-Inch Reel to Reel Tape Deseret String Band, Rich Lepage Recording Services (3 of 5) 13 4 Sound Media: 7-Inch Reel to Reel Tape Deseret String Band, Rich Lepage Recording Services (4 of 5) 13 5 Sound Media: 7-Inch Reel to Reel Tape Deseret String Band, Rich Lepage Recording Services (5 of 5) 14 1 Sound Media: 7-Inch Reel to Reel Tape Deseret String Band (Doc Remeres Favorite, Texas Rangers, We Left our Home in Utah, Granville Pace) 14 2 Sound Media: 7-Inch Reel to Reel Tape D.S.B Logan, UT 14 3 Sound Media: 7-Inch Reel to Reel Tape Old Time Cowboy Songs, Bunkhouse Orchestra 14 4 Sound Media: 7-Inch Reel to Reel Tape Deseret String Band (Western Pioneer) 15 1 Sound Media: 7-Inch Reel to Reel Tape Deseret String Band (Salt Lake City Blues, Wyoming Home) 15 2 Sound Media: 7-Inch Reel to Reel Tape Deseret String Band, Out-takes, Western Tape 15 3 Sound Media: 7-Inch Reel to Reel Tape Deseret String Band, Out-takes, Western Tape Sound Media: 7-Inch Reel to Reel Tape 13

14 Re-Mix, 15IPS (Bury Me Not, Mustang Grey) 16 1 Sound Media: 11 1/2-Inch Reel to Reel Tape 16 2 Sound Media: 11 1/2-Inch Reel to Reel Tape 16 3 Sound Media: 11 1/2-Inch Reel to Reel Tape 16 4 Sound Media: 11 1/2-Inch Reel to Reel Tape Utah Trail (Tape 1, Master) 16 5 Sound Media: 11 1/2-Inch Reel to Reel Tape The Bunkhouse Orchestra, "Old-Time Cowboy Songs" (Side 2, DBX) 16 6 Sound Media: 11 1/2-Inch Reel to Reel Tape Bunkhouse Orchestra, "Old Time Cowboy Songs" (Tape 1) 17 1 Sound Media: 11 1/2-Inch Reel to Reel Tape Old Time Cowboy Songs (Side 1, 15 IPS, Tail) 17 2 Sound Media: 11 1/2-Inch Reel to Reel Tape Old Time Cowboy Songs (Side 2, 15 IPS, Tail) 17 3 Sound Media: 11 1/2-Inch Reel to Reel Tape Deseret String Band, Okehdokee Records, The Utah Trail (Side 2, Tails) 17 4 Sound Media: 11 1/2-Inch Reel to Reel Tape Deseret String Band, Okehdokee Records, The Utah Trail (Side 1, Heads) 17 5 Sound Media: 11 1/2-Inch Reel to Reel Tape Deseret String Band (Side 2, Dolby "A") 17 6 Sound Media: 11 1/2-Inch Reel to Reel Tape Deseret String Band (15 IPS, Dolby "A") 18 1 Sound Media: 11 1/2-Inch Reel to Reel Tape The Bunkhouse Orchestra (Tape 2) Sound Media: 11 1/2-Inch Reel to Reel Tape 18 3 Sound Media: 11 1/2-Inch Reel to Reel Tape 14

15 The Bunkhouse Orchestra, "Old-Time Cowboy Songs" (Side 1, DBX Tails) 18 4 Sound Media: 11 1/2-Inch Reel to Reel Tape Deseret String Band (Side 1, Dolby "A") 18 5 Sound Media: 11 1/2-Inch Reel to Reel Tape CD 19 1 Sound Media: CD Deseret String Band: Portions of radio recordings from the 1975 Mariposa Folk Festival on NPR and Okehdokee Radio Hour on KUER Salt Lake Sound Media: CD Deseret String Band: Recording of miscellaneous folk music and an interview (glass blowing) Sound Media: CD Deseret String Band, Part 3: Deseret String Band concert recording at the Hansen Planetarium in Tape 19 4 Sound Media: 5-Inch Reel to Reel Tape Deseret String Band Concert Side 1: Deseret String Band concert recording at the Hansen Planetarium in 1994 and other folk music. Side 2: Portions of radio recordings from the 1975 Mariposa Folk Festival on NPR and Okehdokee Radio Hour on KUER Salt Lake Sound Media: 5-Inch Reel to Reel Tape Deseret String Band II (Leo Coulson) Side 1: Misc. folk music and interview recordings. Side 2: Misc. folk music. Posters, Located in Poster Cabinet 1, Drawer 3, Folder 1 Container(s) Description Dates Drawer Folder 15

16 3 1 Item 1: Utah Repertory Dance Theatre's Event at the Kingsbury Hall 3 1 Item 2: Festival du Beaujolais [Text in French] [?] May May Item 3: The Deseret String Band at Kingsbury Hall [?] April Item 4: The Deseret String Band at The Hansen Planetarium [?] June Item 5: Leo Kottke and his guitar at Capital Theatre 1975 July Item 6: The Deseret String Band 3 1 Item 7: The Deseret String Band at Kingsbury Hall [?] January Item 8: Northern Rockies Folk Festival; Sun Valley, Idaho 1979 August Item 9: The Deseret String Band 3 1 Item 10: Bunkhouse Orchestra with Ray Lashley, Cowboy Poet 3 1 Item 11: Folk Festival with Deseret String Band [Text in French] 3 1 Item 12: The Annual McCall Summer Music Festival at M.D. High School Music Room 3 1 Item 13: Sweet Pea Bluegrass Jamboree; Bozeman, Montana [?] May August Item 14: Live on the Lawn: the Deseret String Band 1978 August Item 15: The Deseret String Band 3 1 Item 16: The Annual McCall Summer Music Festival at M.D. High School Music Room c

17 3 1 Item 17: Deseret String Band sponsored by Utah Rural Arts Consortium 3 1 Item 18: Festival Folk Epalinges [Text in French] 1976 May Item 19: The 4th Saratoga Bluegrass Festival; Lehi, Utah 1979 September Item 20: Wild West Week; Telluride and Ridgway, Colorado [?] September Item 21: Northern Rockies Folk Festival; Sun Valley, Idaho [?] August 29- September Item 22: The Deseret String Band Record Promo 3 1 Item 23: Oquirrh Ridge Drifters at Wood and Cowboy [?] September Item 24: Save our Public Lands - Utah presents Old Time Music and Dance with the Sagebrush Cotillion 3 1 Item 25: McClain Family Band in Concert; Ogden and Salt Lake City, Utah [?] May April 9-10 Band Posters Container(s) Description Dates Box Folder Band Posters Names and Subjects Finding aid created by Mara J. Ballard