Bascam Lamar Lunsford (1882-1973), musician, singer, collector, teacher, lawyer, was an early advocate for the preservation of "oldtime" Appalachian music. His influence in American folk music was far-reaching. Correspondence between Brown and Lunsford suggests Brown collected these songs from Lunsford in 1922, recording them to wax cylinder at Turkey Creek in Buncombe County, North Carolina. These are among the earliest recordings of Lunsford. Lunsford would later record commercially, and three of his commercial recordings were included by Harry Smith in the influential Anthology of American Folk Music (1952). Two of those songs, albeit in their full and far more polished versions on the Anthology, were ones he sang for Brown in 1922. The Lunsford materials, contained on five phonodiscs, were not part of 2017 CLIR grant digitization project to preserve Brown's original field recording media, since the original cylinders were missing. The phonodiscs were digitized in 2022 and the audio files are open for research.