-Buy This Issue!-	Volume 11, Number 4 • April-May 2008 Follow links below for excerpts Features Essential Hillbilly Commercial Recordings on 78s By Ron Cole The Life and Music of Fiddlin’ Bill Hensley By Bob Carlin Fiddlin’ Bill and the Taylors of Tennessee By Bob Carlin Cathy Barton Para and Dave Para: Lives on the River By Malcolm Smith Columns Old-Time Music in Eastern and Central Iowa By Norbert Sarsfield
Festival Profiles The Hoppin’ John Old-Time and Bluegrass Fiddlers Convention By Robert Mitchener The Palestine Old-Time Music and Dulcimer Festival, Palestine, Texas By Rhomylly Forbes Workshops Spotted Pony By Cathy Barton Para Bill Hensley’s Georgia Horseshoe By Walt Koken and Clare Milliner Departments Here & There Letters Reviews

	The date given for the Mt. Airy Bluegrass and Old-Time Fiddlers Convention, Mt. Airy, NC, vol. 11, no. 3, Feb.-March 2008, page 25, was incorrect. Mt. Airy is June 6-7.
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