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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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
Mayo’s the Name, Fiddlin’s the Game: Ralph Mayo
by Gary Reid
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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Arthur “Cush” Holston, Florida’s Fiddling Fisherman
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 →
History the “Great Man” Missed: Critiquing Ken Burns’ “Country Music”
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 →