"They don't have mentors," Rick says. "They don't have an image to see themselves in that position. Early on we took that as kind of a philosophical goal to produce those types of images that women could identify with."
The endeavor quickly morphed into a nonprofit named the MusicBox Project. It currently has profiles of 81 American roots musicians.
"All forms of music," Dyann says. "We like to say A to Z, Appalachian to Zydeco."
The Arthurs donated a copy of their collection to the Library of Congress. One featured artist is vocalist and guitarist Lauren Sheehan of Portland. Sheehan trained as a classical musician in the late 1970s. Then one day, she borrowed a folk music anthology from her college library. It was a turning point.
The work of American roots vocalist and guitarist Lauren Sheehan is in the American Folklife collection at the Library of Congress.
"When I heard that breadth, I sought out folk festivals even more," Sheehan says. "That was because there was an archived piece of real music that spoke to me."
That series on vinyl included selections of 1930s-era recordings collected by the Library of Congress.
Now, through the MusicBox Project, an incredulous Sheehan finds herself in the American Folklife collection at the Library of Congress.
"I am only a little drop in the bucket of oral tradition, but I am a drop in the bucket. All this being in the Library of Congress is so cool because other people can hear that."
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