Lena Bare Turbyfill (photo courtesy of Elizabeth Gwyn) Listening to field recordings can be an experience of intimacy and distance at the same time: intimacy because we hear the unedited… Read More →
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Latest Issue
Volume 15, Number 4
Features
- The Old Originals Project: A Look Back after 50 years By Tom Carter
- Arthur “Cush” Holston, Florida’s Fiddling Fisherman By Lloyd Baldwin
- Hidden Roots: The Musical Life of Munsey Gualtney By Josh Beckworth
- Attic #24: Gone to Texas (and Oklahoma) By Paul Wells
Reviews
- We Shall All Be Reunited: Revisiting the Bristol Sessions Reviewed by Suzy Rothfield Thompson
- Along the Ohio’s Shores: Fiddle Music Along a Great River Reviewed by Bradley Kramer
- Rare and Unissued Fiddle & String Band Music (Eck Robertson and Others) Reviewed by Bradley Kramer
- Sidetrack My Engine (Nora Brown) Reviewed by Pete Peterson
- The Rocky Creek Ramblers Reviewed by Timothy Jones
- Here’s to Every Country Dancer: Dudley Laufman’s Original Tunes and Songs played by Canterbury Country Dance Orchestra (Dudley Laufman) Reviewed by Jordan Smith
- Hand-Me-Downs (Madeline Levy and Bertram Levy) Reviewed by Pete Peterson
- Coney Island Baby (Eden & John’s East River String Band) Reviewed by Bradley Kramer
- Allsorts Orchestra (Skillet Licorice) Reviewed by Bradley Kramer
- Celtic Fiddle Rambles with Skip Gorman (Skip Gorman) Reviewed by Paul Wells
- Naomi “Omie” Wise: Her Life, Death and Legend Reviewed by Jordan Smith
- Industrial Strength Bluegrass: Southwestern Ohio’s Musical Legacy (Fred Bartenstein and Curtis W. Ellison, editors) Reviewed by Bradley Kramer
- ARSC Journal Special Issue: “U.S. Public Domain and Pre-1923 Recordings” Reviewed by Bradley Kramer
From the Vault: Features
Arthur “Cush” Holston, Florida’s Fiddling Fisherman
by Lloyd Baldwin
“Do I resemble myself this morning?” The elderly gentleman greeted Thelma Boltin as she pulled into the yard of his shack one day in 1959. She had come to invite… Read More →
Attic #23: Many Strings, No Neck
by Paul Wells
All images from the collection of Paul Wells. Organologists—scholars who study and classify musical instruments—lump them into large, broad generic groupings. All stringed instruments, for example, are classed as “chordophones,”… Read More →
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Y’all Come: The Ballad of Big Jim Folsom
by Burgin Mathews
In March of 1962, a new political season was gearing up in Alabama, and so-called “hillbilly” music was everywhere. “It has gotten so you can’t run for governor in Alabama,”… Read More →
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