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 →
Main Content
Latest Issue
Volume 15, Number 2
Features
Reviews
- A Storyteller’s Story: Sources of Banjo Dancing (Stephen Wade)
- Acorns (Ben Winship)
- African-American Fiddling from Texas (Teodar Jackson)
- Appalachian Fiddle Music: Featuring 43 Fiddlers and 188 of Their Tunes (by Drew Beisswenger and Roy Andrade with Scott Prouty)
- Closing the Gap (Molsky’s Mountain Drifters)
- Fiddling from Ozark County, Missouri (H. K. Silvey)
- Hello Stranger (Eliza Meyer)
- Kentucky Fiddlers Home Recordings: Volume 1—Fleming and Bath Counties (Various artists)
- Nuevas Acequias, Río Viejo: Traditional Music of Northern New Mexico (Lone Piñon)
- Old Tin (Erynn Marshall and Carl Jones)
- Random Access Mash (Hard Drive)
- Rural Rhythm: The Story of Old-Time Country Music in 78 Records (by Tony Russell)
- See What the Lord Has Done for Me: Rare and Unissued Recordings (Rev. Gary Davis)
- Shaking Down the Acorns (Scott Prouty)
- Spider Tales (Jake Blount)
- Started Out In Town (The Horsenecks)
- Stony Run (Ken and Brad Kolodner)
- The Harry Smith B-Sides (Various artists)
- The Old Texas Fiddle Vol. III (Tricia Spencer & Howard Rains)
Here & There
Final Notes
Mayo’s the Name, Fiddlin’s the Game: Ralph Mayo
Carter Stanley once referred to old-time fiddle player Leslie Keith as “an unsung hero,” a powerhouse entertainer who, in his day, enjoyed widespread popularity, but with the passing of time… Read More →
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Rhythm and Genes: The Moonshining and Old-Time Music of Southwest Virginia’s Boyd Family
Jimmy Boyd (photo by Sam Linkous) Jimmy Boyd believes in the power of genetics. “There’s something about us Boyds,” he told me, “that just put rhythm in us. My daddy… Read More →
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Attic #22: Bands, Ensembles, Groups, Aggregations
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 →
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