Thomas Burton’s Oral History, as told to Ted Olson In November 2016 I interviewed Dr. Thomas Burton, hoping to generate a written narrative relating his key experiences in studying, researching,… Read More →
Main Content
Latest Issue
Volume 15, Number 3
Features
- Lloyd Jeptha “Jabe” Dillon By Harry Bolick
- Songs that Tell Stories: Thomas Burton and the Appalachian Ballad Tradition By Ted Olson
- An Interview with George Wilson By Jordan Smith
- A True Adventure in Field Recording By Brad Leftwich
- Attic #23: Many Strings, No Neck By Paul Wells
Reviews
- The Village Out West: The Lost Tapes of Alan Oakes Reviewed by Pete Peterson
- Home to Stay (South Carolina Broadcasters) Reviewed by Timothy Jones
- Brandywine Ridge (The Piros) Reviewed by Pete Peterson
- Festival Season (Dolly and the Devil) Reviewed by Pete Peterson
- Everywhere You Go (Bruce Molsky) Reviewed by Lindsey Terrell
- I’m a Yankee Doodle Dandy: Urban French-American Fiddling from the 1930s-1950s. (Frank Ferrel) Reviewed by Jordan Smith
Here & There
- Elliot County (KY) Fiddlers Convention
- Clifftop (WV)
- Deer Creek Fiddlers’ Convention (Westminster, MD)
- Hammons Family Memorial Fiddle and Banjo Contests (Marlinton, WV)
- Mountain Dance and Folk Festival (Asheville, NC)
- Banjo Gathering (Baltimore, MD)
- New books on old-time music
- In Quarantine
- fRoots Radio
From the Vault: Features

The Highwoods Moment
by Mac Benford
Old-time music experienced a great loss in February 2020, with the passing of banjo player Mac Benford. Mac had submitted this essay to the OTH a few months earlier, and… Read More →

Teodar Jackson and African American Fiddling from Texas: Lost Music from the Rural
by Dan Foster
by Dan Foster Note: This article was written in part to celebrate the release of a new CD of old-time fiddling from the Field Recorders’ Collective, Teodar Jackson with T.… Read More →
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Erwin A. Thompson: The Music Breathed Him
by Janet Grace Riehl
November 9, 1915-March 28, 2015 If you have ever played or heard “John Short’s Tune,” a lively polka, then you have met my father, Erwin A. Thompson. He passed the… Read More →