"anonymous shadows"

One more go. Far from Sharp's singers being anonymous, every single item in his manuscripts is given a date, place and singer's name. In many cases he took photographs of the singers - go on, scroll down and take a look, these are the kind of people Sharp admired and got on with, much better than with some of his peers in the music establishment. And this was at a time when many collectors in the US (e.g. Frank C. Brown) were not naming singers at all, but referring to sources as 'mountain whites', etc.

Here's the aforementioned Betsy Holland.