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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

History the “Great Man” Missed: Critiquing Ken Burns’ “Country Music”

October 10, 2020 by Ted Olson

Early Country Music, from the Top Down Before the debut broadcast of Country Music, filmmaker Ken Burns’s paean to American exceptionalism, that popular music genre was beloved among its core… Read More →

Lloyd Jeptha “Jabe” Dillon

July 4, 2022 by Harry Bolick

This article is excerpted and adapted from the book Fiddle Tunes from Mississippi: Commercial and Informal Recordings, 1920 – 2018, by Harry Bolick and Tony Russell, published in 2021 by… Read More →

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A True Adventure in Field Recording

July 4, 2022 by Brad Leftwich

Northern Oklahoma is nearly a perfect grid. You can measure your progress through it by counting section lines, a gravel road marking each mile. It was 10 miles north from… Read More →

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Rhythm and Genes: The Moonshining and Old-Time Music of Southwest Virginia’s Boyd Family

December 6, 2021 by Malcolm Smith

Jimmy Boyd (photo by Sam Linkous) Jimmy Boyd believes in the power of genetics.  “There’s something about us Boyds,” he told me, “that just put rhythm in us.  My daddy… Read More →

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From the Vault: Album Reviews

Pictures from Life’s Other Side: The Man and His Music in Rare Photos and Recordings, by Hank Williams

La Coppia Sciascia: Italian Folk Songs from Abruzzo, 1927-1930 by Pasquale and Chiarina Sciascia

Allison de Groot and Tatiana Hargreaves (self-titled)

Fiddling from Ozark County, Missouri (H. K. Silvey)

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