It is said that in the 19th century when many Americans left the places they had settled and emigrated to what was then the Republic of Texas, they would write… Read More →
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Volume 15, Number 4
Features
Reviews
- We Shall All Be Reunited: Revisiting the Bristol Sessions
- Along the Ohio’s Shores: Fiddle Music Along a Great River
- Rare and Unissued Fiddle & String Band Music (Eck Robertson and Others)
- Sidetrack My Engine (Nora Brown)
- The Rocky Creek Ramblers
- Here’s to Every Country Dancer: Dudley Laufman’s Original Tunes and Songs played by Canterbury Country Dance Orchestra (Dudley Laufman)
- Hand-Me-Downs (Madeline Levy and Bertram Levy)
- Coney Island Baby (Eden & John’s East River String Band)
- Allsorts Orchestra (Skillet Licorice)
- Celtic Fiddle Rambles with Skip Gorman (Skip Gorman)
- Naomi “Omie” Wise: Her Life, Death and Legend
- Industrial Strength Bluegrass: Southwestern Ohio’s Musical Legacy (Fred Bartenstein and Curtis W. Ellison, editors)
- ARSC Journal Special Issue: “U.S. Public Domain and Pre-1923 Recordings”
Songs that Tell Stories: Thomas Burton and the Appalachian Ballad Tradition
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 →
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Sepia Tones podcast
This spring the Great Smoky Mountains Association released a new podcast mini-series, Sepia Tones: Exploring Black Appalachian Music. The series, they write, which is hosted by Drs. William Turner and… Read More →
Arthur “Cush” Holston, Florida’s Fiddling Fisherman
“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 →
