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Gordon McCann: The Ozarks' Isolation Helped Preserve the 'Fragile' Music Culture

Lifelong Ozarks resident Gordon McCann shares some of his experiences developing Ozarks music and archiving local music history. He began with a simple tape recorder, he tells host Jim Baker.  "The more I taped, the more I started realizing the repertoire these people had," he said.  McCann curated a musical and oral history of the region.

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