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Volume 15, Number 2

Features

  • Dark-Natured Songs: The Bare Family Legacy By Derek Piotr and Jackie Hedstrom
  • “The Preacher and The Bear”: Not a Folk Song, But a Song of the Folk By Ted Olson
  • Rhythm and Genes: The Moonshining and Old-Time Music of Southwest Virginia’s Boyd Family By Malcolm Smith
  • Attic #22: Bands, Ensembles, Groups, Aggregations By Paul Wells

Reviews

  • A Storyteller’s Story: Sources of Banjo Dancing (Stephen Wade) Reviewed by Mark Humphrey
  • Acorns (Ben Winship) Reviewed by Timothy Jones
  • African-American Fiddling from Texas (Teodar Jackson) Reviewed by Suzy Thompson
  • Appalachian Fiddle Music: Featuring 43 Fiddlers and 188 of Their Tunes (by Drew Beisswenger and Roy Andrade with Scott Prouty) Reviewed by Jordan Smith
  • Closing the Gap (Molsky’s Mountain Drifters) Reviewed by Stuart Mason
  • Fiddling from Ozark County, Missouri (H. K. Silvey) Reviewed by Suzy Thompson
  • Hello Stranger (Eliza Meyer) Reviewed by Pete Peterson
  • Kentucky Fiddlers Home Recordings: Volume 1—Fleming and Bath Counties (Various artists) Reviewed by Pete Peterson
  • Nuevas Acequias, Río Viejo: Traditional Music of Northern New Mexico (Lone Piñon) Reviewed by Mark Humphrey
  • Old Tin (Erynn Marshall and Carl Jones) Reviewed by Stuart Mason
  • Random Access Mash (Hard Drive) Reviewed by John Fabke
  • Rural Rhythm: The Story of Old-Time Country Music in 78 Records (by Tony Russell) Reviewed by Ted Olson
  • See What the Lord Has Done for Me: Rare and Unissued Recordings (Rev. Gary Davis) Reviewed by Bruce Miller
  • Shaking Down the Acorns (Scott Prouty) Reviewed by Pete Peterson
  • Spider Tales (Jake Blount) Reviewed by Mark Humphrey
  • Started Out In Town (The Horsenecks) Reviewed by Stuart Mason
  • Stony Run (Ken and Brad Kolodner) Reviewed by Stuart Mason
  • The Harry Smith B-Sides (Various artists) Reviewed by Mark Humphrey
  • The Old Texas Fiddle Vol. III (Tricia Spencer & Howard Rains) Reviewed by Mark Humphrey

Here & There

  • Folklife From Home WNC: Call for artists
  • South Arts Folk & Traditional Arts Cross-Border Mentor-Apprentice Program
  • Sepia Tones podcast
  • Spring Fed Records Haley Family set

Final Notes

  • Clyde Davenport By
  • Mike Ramsey By Malcolm Smith
  • Bill Stewart By Lindell Blackford
  • Kathy World By Alice Gerrard

From the Vault: Features

“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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Y’all Come: The Ballad of Big Jim Folsom

January 20, 2020 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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Young Old-Time Musicians of North Carolina

January 20, 2020 by Zoe van Buren

The North Carolina Arts Council has recently completed work on its Millennial Traditional Artists Directory, an effort to promote the work of young traditional artists in North Carolina. The project… Read More →

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History the “Great Man” Missed: Critiquing Ken Burns’ “Country Music”

October 10, 2020 by Ted Olson

Early Country Music, from the Top Down Before the debut broadcast of Country Music, filmmaker Ken Burns’s paean to American exceptionalism, that popular music genre was beloved among its core… Read More →

From the Vault: Album Reviews

A Storyteller’s Story: Sources of Banjo Dancing (Stephen Wade)

See What the Lord Has Done for Me: Rare and Unissued Recordings (Rev. Gary Davis)

Hello Stranger (Eliza Meyer)

The Harry Smith B-Sides (Various artists)

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