Ozarks Public Television’s latest documentary, The Ozark Mountain Daredevils – Backstage, pays tribute to the famous rock band that formed in the early 1970s in Springfield, Missouri. The documentary is available to stream on the Ozarks Public Television website.

Special Collections and Archives, a part of the Missouri State University Libraries, provided support for the documentary with information from the University Archives, such as film footage of MSU’s campus in the 1960s-1970s and articles from the student newspaper and other university publications.  Several of the band members attended, met at, and performed at MSU both before and after officially becoming “The Ozark Mountain Daredevils.”

Bassist Michael “Supe” Granda has donated several CDs to the Ozarkiana collections of the archives.  Also, the large Springfield Little Theatre Collection is currently being processed, and two posters from performances at the Landers Theatre in the 1970s were very recently discovered (under former band name “Family Tree,” along with “Granny’s Bathwater”).