Ola Belle Reed Research Guide: Home

There are numerous published recordings of Ola Belle Reed and her music, but biographical material outside of album liner notes are harder to find. The book Ola Belle Reed and Southern Mountain Music on the Mason-Dixon Line (2015) by Henry Glassie, Clifford R. Murphy and Douglas Dowling Peach is the only released biography of her life. The Southern Folklife Collection holds many resources relating to Reed, including the manuscript for her unpublished autobiography “High on a Mountain”. This LibGuide can serve as a starting guide to resources about Ola Belle Reed in the Southern Folklife Collection, UNC libraries, and beyond.

This LibGuide is reconfigured from the Field Trip South blog post Ola Belle Reed: Resource and Subject Guide

Ola Belle Reed and childhood friend Hazel Waltman, circa 1940s in Mike Seeger Collection Image Folder PF-20009/99