Browse excertps issues from our last few years! Be sure to check our Feature Article section for full-length articles with photos....

Volume 12

#1 October- November 2009- Trends in Old-Time Banjo Part 3, Old-time music in Alaska, Mark Campbell, Remembering Mike Seeger

#2 December 2009- January 2010- Trends in Old-Time Banjo Part 4, Remembering Ray Alden, Kyle Creed, Lee Hammons

#3 February-March 2010- Trends in Old-Time Banjo Part 5, Festival Guide 2010, Sherman Hammons, Mississippi Records

#4 April-May 2010- Jeff Menzies, Sleepy Marlin, Maggie Hammons Parker

#5 June-July 2010- The Field Recorders’ Collective, Effie Smith Pierson, Béla Fleck on Throw Down Your Heart, Burl Hammons

#6 Auguest-September 2010- Lella Christopher Todd, Dust-To-Digital, Carson Robinson, Hubie King

#7 October-November 2010- Floyd Country Store, Mississippi John Hurt, Ginny Hawker, Si Kahn's Aragon Mill

#8 December, 2010- January 2011- Bacon Banjos, Bob Walters, and Dwight Lamb, OTH at Merlefest

#9 February - March 2011- Festival Guide 2011, The Brewster Brothers, Ozark Opry & LeRoy Haslag

#10 April-May 2011- Addie Graham, Elgin Hawaiian Guitar Band

#11 June-July 2011- Jules Verne Allen, Old-Time Mandolin

#12 August -Septermber 2011- Earl Murphy, Uncle Steve Kimball, Jules Verne Allen part 2

Volume 11

#1 October- November 2007- Jimmy Triplett, Ora Watson, The Stairwell Sisters, Birdie in a Cage

#2 December 2007- January 2008- Molly O'Day, Posey Rorer, Speedy Krise, Norman Blake

#3 February- March 2008- 2008 Festival Guide, The Tejano Conjunto Festival, The Canebrake Rattlers

#4 April-May 2008- Essential 78s, Fiddlin’ Bill Hensley, Cathy Barton and Dave Para

#5 June-July 2008- I Was A Teenage Square Dance Caller, Brandywine, Kate Brett and Kevin Enoch

#6 August-September 2008- Rebekah Weiler, Henry Thomas, Nile Wilson, The Invention of the Country Music Industry

#7 October-November 2008- Dr. John Brinkley, Senator George Cecil McLeod, Old-Time Herald Reviews

#8 December 2008-January2009- Vesta Johnson, Garry Harrison, Chubby Parker, Buffalo Ragged Five, Traditional Music Collections Online

#9 February-March, 2009- 2009 Festival Guide, Mike Bryant, The Stone Family, Joe Thompson at 90.

#10 April-May 2009- Lou Southworth, John Henry in Alabama, Okeh in Asheville.

#11-11 June-July 2009- Lily May Ledford, Trends in Old-Time Banjo, Carthy Sisco

#11-12 August-September 2009- Stranger Malone, Trends in Old-Time Banjo Part 2, Old-time music in Toronto

Volume 10

#1 Fall 2005-Foghorn String Band, African Roots of American Step Dance, Hipsters, Punk Rock, and the Future of Old-Time Music

#2 Winter 2005- Lester and Linda McCumbers, Ladder Braced Guitars & Dancer Thomas Maupin.

#3 February 2006- Run of the Mill String Band, Whit Sizemore, Alleghany Jubilee, Will Key's Bob Taylor's March

#4 April/May2006- Roots of the Banjo Part 1, Glenn Orlin, Clint Howard, Ralph & Robbie Show on WPAQ, Gordon McCann

#5 June/July 2006- Roots of the Banjo Part 2, The Sandia Hots, Albuquerque Megaband, The Brazen Square Dance of the San Francisco Bay Area

#6 August/September 2006- Fisher Hendley, Clint Kilgore Paddy on the Hardwood, Banjo Hybrids

#7 October/Novmber 2006- J.W. “Babe” Spangler, H.O. Jenkins, Uncle Henry's Favorites, Wisdom Jam, Harmonica in Old-Time Music

#8 December/January 2006-07- Carole Anne Rose and Curly Miller, Eugene Earle, Walt Koken, Frank and Anne Warner on the Outer Banks

#9 February/March 2007- Festival Guide 2007, John Ashby, Uncle Earl, The Carolina Chocolate Drops, Encountering the Akonting

#10 April/May 2007- The Helton Brothers, The Homestead Pickin' Parlor, Ralph Lee Smith, Spring Fed Records

#11 June/July 2007- T. J. Worthington, "Speedy" Tolliver, Hick and Sue Edmonds, Old-Time Flatfoot and Square Dancing in the Blue Ridge

#12 August/September 2007-The Slate Moountain Ramblers, Wade Mainer, Joseph Daniels, Al Wall, Harold Sorenson

Volume 9

#1 Fall 2003- Melvin Wine, Leizime Brusoe, Cooper Creek Records, The Reel World String Band

#2 Winter 2003-2004- African Akonting and Origin of the Banjo, Music and Community Project

#3 Spring 2004- Festival Guide, Bob Bovee & Gail Heil, Banjo Collector Jim Bollman

#4 Summer 2004- The Myers Sisters, The Peter Hoover Collection, Ann & Phil Case

#5 Fall 2004- Violet Hensley, The Ukulele in Old-time Music, Letter for Ole Bull to Sara Tharp, Square Dances in the 21st Century

#6 Winter 2004-2005- Otto Wood, John Herrmann, Jasper "Jep" Bisbee, The Fiddle Puppets

#7 Spring 2005- Festival Guide, Goose Island Ramblers, Charlie Bowman, Black Square Dance Calls, Why Black Banjo?, Deering Banjo Factory

#8 Summer 2005- Alice Gerrard, Festival Profiles, Arthur Grives, Charlie Poole Style Banjo

Volume 8#1 Fall 2001 - John Hartford, A Walk Through Felts Park, Banjo Stories

#2 Winter 2002- Albert Hash Memorial Band, A Banjo On Her Knee - Part I

#3 Spring 2002 - Del-Se-Nango Fiddlers, A Banjo On Her Knee - Part 2, Festival Guide 2002

#4 Summer 2002 - Tributes, Wilkes Acoustic Folk Society, Festival Profiles, Tommy Thompson, Volo Bogtrotters

#5 Fall 2002 - Slim Bryant, Glenn Neaves, Traditional Music in Tinseltown, Summer Story

#6 Winter 2002- David Holt, Debby McClatchy, The Legend of Uncle Willie and the Brandy Snifters

#8 Summer 2003- Rufus Crisp, Derroll Adams, Barry Murphy Remembers Early Days of Folk Revival

Volume 7

#1 Fall 1999 - The Freight Hoppers, Jim & Kim Lansford, Songsters of the Ozarks

#2 Winter 1999/2000 - David Freeman, Old-Time Fiddler Photos, New Lost City Ramblers (Part 1)

#3 Spring 2000 - Festival Guide!,  New Lost City Ramblers (Part 2), Issues in Old-Time Music

#4 Summer 2000 - Kenny Hall, Old-Time Guitar Tales, Festival Profiles

#5 Fall 2000 - Bob Carlin, How to Go to A Squaredance, Other End of the Microphone

#6 Winter 2000/2001 - Mark Wilson, Art Stamper, Old-Time Patter Calls, Strings That Last

#7 Spring 2001 - Festival Guide!, Blue Mountain Ramblers, Festival Profiles

#8 Summer 2001 - Festival Profiles, Uncle Plez Carroll and Charlie Stripling, Stripling Brothers 2000, Chris Strachwitz 

Volume 6 


#1 Fall 1997 - Moses Asch & Smithsonian/Folkways Records, John Morgan Salyer, The Pet   Panther, (from Maggie Hammons Parker)

#2 Winter 1997 - American Folklife Center, Wayne Henderson, Fiddle Tunes on Prince Edward   Island

#3 Spring 1998 - Notes from the Judges Booth, Old-Time Music Down Under, Ron Hughey,   Festival Guide 1998!

#4 Summer 1998 - Interview With Bob Pinson (Part 1), Roscoe Holcomb, Sutphin Family

#5 Fall 1998 - Interview With Bob Pinson (Part 2), Dock Boggs: Only Remembered for What He   Has Done

#6 Winter 1998 - Young American Fogies, Keeping Up With Online, 20 Essential Recordings,    Dock Boggs: Memories & Appreciations

#7 Spring 1999 - Joe Bussard, Jr., Lost John, Festival Guide 1999!

#8 Summer 1999 - Maryland Banjo Academy, Critters in Cyberspace - Old-Time Music on the Internet, Leonard Lucky Glenn, Blind Alfred Reed, Carolina Roots Festival

Volume 5

#8 Summer 1997 - Old-Time Hits the Big-Time in Hollywood USA, Festival Profiles, Mel Durham