COBB, BUELL E., JR., 1944-

Biography:

College instructor; telephone company employee. Born– June 25, 1944, Cullman. Parents– Buell E. and Kathryn (McDaniel) Cobb. Married– Mary Wilson Elliot, August, 1968. Education– University of Montevallo, B.A., 1966; graduate study in English, Auburn University. Taught at West Georgia College. Conducts shaped-note workshops all over the country. Articles appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review and in Louisiana Studies.

Source:

Gene Geiger, Auburn University, and book jacket to The Sacred Harp.

Publication(s):

Like Cords around My Heart: A Sacred Harp Memoir.  Outskirts Publishing Company, 2013.

The Sacred Harp; a Tradition and Its Music. Athens, Ga.; University of Georgia Press, 1978.

Contributor;

In the Spirit:  Alabama’s Sacred Music Traditions.  Montgomery: Black Belt Press, 1995.