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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 #24: Gone to Texas (and Oklahoma)

May 5, 2023 by Paul Wells

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 →

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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Sepia Tones podcast

December 6, 2021 by sarah

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

May 5, 2023 by Lloyd Baldwin

“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 →

From the Vault: Album Reviews

Rare and Unissued Fiddle & String Band Music (Eck Robertson and Others)

Allison de Groot and Tatiana Hargreaves (self-titled)

Hello Stranger (Eliza Meyer)

Here’s to Every Country Dancer: Dudley Laufman’s Original Tunes and Songs played by Canterbury Country Dance Orchestra (Dudley Laufman)

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