One Tennessee Family's Efforts To Preserve Trove Of Old Folk Songs

In Tennessee, one family has been credited with single-handedly preserving a trove of folk songs that otherwise would have vanished. In the middle of the last century, these old ballads — sung without musical accompaniment — fell out of fashion.

Tony Gonzalez (@TGonzalez) from WPLN in Nashville introduces us to the Hicks family, and to the ethnomusicologist who first recorded and helped spread their traditional songs.