“The old tunes, like the old originals, they are all about gone.” This is the way fiddler N.H. Mills of Boones Mill, Virginia, put it to us that summer day… Read More →
Main Content
Latest Issue
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
Teodar Jackson and African American Fiddling from Texas: Lost Music from the Rural
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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“The Preacher and The Bear”: Not a Folk Song, But a Song of the Folk
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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A True Adventure in Field Recording
by Brad Leftwich
Northern Oklahoma is nearly a perfect grid. You can measure your progress through it by counting section lines, a gravel road marking each mile. It was 10 miles north from… Read More →
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