# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joe-hickerson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:25:31.391Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joe-hickerson"
name: "Joe Hickerson"
slug: "joe-hickerson"
description: "Joseph Charles Hickerson, known professionally as Joe Hickerson, was an American folk singer, song finder, and musicologist. He led the Archive of Folk Song at the Library of Congress from 1963 to 1998."
tagline: "American folk singer (1935–2025)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1935-10-20"
deathDate: "2025-08-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.12
  momentum:             1.904761904761905
  historical:           7.075414666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0382590/"
    handle:    "nm0382590"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.joehickerson.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/903341"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Hickerson"
    title: "Joe Hickerson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Hickerson"
    title: "Joe Hickerson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Hickerson"
    title: "Joe Hickerson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Hickerson"
    title: "Joe Hickerson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Hickerson"
    title: "Joe Hickerson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iosephus_Hickerson"
    title: "Iosephus Hickerson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Hickerson"
    title: "Joe Hickerson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/a45c5cd2-c7c0-47aa-8949-fbcc18e44bcd"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3808659"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump