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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

Songs that Tell Stories: Thomas Burton and the Appalachian Ballad Tradition

July 4, 2022 by Ted Olson

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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The Highwoods Moment

October 22, 2020 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

October 10, 2020 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

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

Tom Mindte & Mason Via (self-titled)

Old World Music of the Southern Appalachians, by Hog Eyed Man

Home to Stay (South Carolina Broadcasters)

Acorns (Ben Winship)

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