"Jerry Jeff Walker Letters: jack Frazier/'60's New Orleans : Harry Stoneback (Stoney) Photo: Ryder Coffee House"; Photograph of the Ryder Coffee House, New Orleans, LA with note to Earl Casey from Jack Frazier on back, letter to Casey from H.R. "Stoney" Stoneback regarding Jerry Jeff Walker's birthday concert, letters to Jerry Jeff Walker and Earl Casey from Jack Frazier regarding 1960's New Orleans and the Ryder Coffee House, letter to Pierre De Gruy, editor of Gambit regarding early 1960's New Orleans and the Ryder Coffee House/Lee Harvey Oswald connection, 1989-1990, 1992
Scope and Contents
Archival materials received from journalist and former CNN senior vice president, Earl Casey. Casey, a longtime friend of Jerry Jeff and Susan Walker, served as the chief researcher and writer/consultant on Jerry Jeff Walker’s autobiograpy, Gypsy Songman, 1999. The bulk of the material in this collection dates 1964-1990 and consists of research documents and taped interviews with transcipts conducted with Jerry Jeff Walker, Walker’s family, friends and other musicians for the book Gypsy Songman. Research documents include photocopies of Walker’s arrest records for his infamous, 1964 New Orleans public intoxication charge, correspondence between Walker, his family and friends, newspaper clippings pertaining to Walker’s childhood in Oneonta, New York and his subsequent musical career, a PhD dissertation pertaining to the songs of Jerry Jeff Walker, photographs, drawings, partial draft manuscript for Letters from the Road (original working title for Gypsy Songman) and a copy of Ben Jennings’ unpublished memoir. Color coded stickers on cassette tapes and transcripts along with color coded spreadsheet reflect Casey’s original numbering system. Folder titles preceding a semicolon reflect Casey’s original descriptions. NOTE: BOX 3664 FOLDER 1 IS RESTRICTED UNTIL 2035 WITHOUT CURATOR OR DIRECTOR’S PERMISSION.
Dates
- 1989-1990, 1992
Creator
- From the Collection: Casey, Earl (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research excluding Box 3664-NOTE: BOX 3664 FOLDER 1 IS RESTRICTED UNTIL 2035 WITHOUT CURATOR OR DIRECTOR’S PERMISSION.
Extent
From the Series: 2 Linear Feet
From the Series: 4 boxes (Audio and digital files on cassette tapes and thumb drives)
Language of Materials
From the Series: English
Repository Details
Part of the The Wittliff Collections Repository