A Magazine Dedicated to Old-Time Music
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
