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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

Attic #22: Bands, Ensembles, Groups, Aggregations

December 6, 2021 by Paul Wells

Given the focus of the Old-Time Herald on string band music, it naturally has been appropriate that in most of our visits to the Attic we’ve spent the time looking… Read More →

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Attic #23: Many Strings, No Neck

July 4, 2022 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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“The Preacher and The Bear”: Not a Folk Song, But a Song of the Folk

December 6, 2021 by Ted Olson

In June 1984, newly hired as a ranger by the National Park Service, I was assigned to work for the Blue Ridge Parkway near Blowing Rock, North Carolina.  My vocation… Read More →

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Erwin A. Thompson: The Music Breathed Him

March 2, 2021 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 →

From the Vault: Album Reviews

Dellorto Island by Victor Furtado

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

Defiantly Joyous, by the True and Trembling String Band

We Shall All Be Reunited: Revisiting the Bristol Sessions

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