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Erwin A. Thompson: The Music Breathed Him

Filed in Features
Published on March 2, 2021
By Janet Grace Riehl

Songs that Tell Stories: Thomas Burton and the Appalachian Ballad Tradition

Filed in Features
Published on July 4, 2022
By Ted Olson

An Interview with George Wilson

Filed in Features
Published on July 4, 2022
By Jordan Smith

A True Adventure in Field Recording

Filed in Features
Published on July 4, 2022
By Brad Leftwich

Lloyd Jeptha “Jabe” Dillon

Filed in Features
Published on July 4, 2022
By Harry Bolick
From the Magazine: Volume 15, Number 3

I’m a Yankee Doodle Dandy: Urban French-American Fiddling from the 1930s-1950s. (Frank Ferrel)

Filed in Book Reviews
Published on July 4, 2022
Reviewed by Jordan Smith
From the Magazine: Volume 15, Number 3

Festival Season (Dolly and the Devil)

Filed in Music Reviews
Published on July 4, 2022
Reviewed by Pete Peterson
From the Magazine: Volume 15, Number 3

The Village Out West: The Lost Tapes of Alan Oakes

Filed in Music Reviews
Published on July 4, 2022
Reviewed by Pete Peterson
From the Magazine: Volume 15, Number 3

Brandywine Ridge (The Piros)

Filed in Music Reviews
Published on July 4, 2022
Reviewed by Pete Peterson
From the Magazine: Volume 15, Number 3

Everywhere You Go (Bruce Molsky)

Filed in Music Reviews
Published on July 4, 2022
Reviewed by Lindsey Terrell
From the Magazine: Volume 15, Number 3

Home to Stay (South Carolina Broadcasters)

Filed in Music Reviews
Published on July 4, 2022
Reviewed by Timothy Jones

fRoots Radio

Filed in Here & There
Published on July 4, 2022

Quarantine Happy Hour Archive

Filed in Here & There
Published on July 4, 2022

New books on old-time music

Filed in Here & There
Published on July 4, 2022

Hammons Family Memorial Fiddle and Banjo Contests (Marlinton, WV)

Filed in Events
Published on July 4, 2022

Clifftop (WV)

Filed in Events
Published on July 4, 2022

Banjo Gathering (Baltimore, MD)

Filed in Events
Published on July 4, 2022

Mountain Dance and Folk Festival (Asheville, NC)

Filed in Events
Published on July 4, 2022

Deer Creek Fiddlers’ Convention (Westminster, MD)

Filed in Events
Published on July 4, 2022

Elliot County (KY) Fiddlers Convention

Filed in Events
Published on July 4, 2022

Attic #23: Many Strings, No Neck

Filed in Features
Published on July 4, 2022
By Paul Wells

Started Out In Town (The Horsenecks)

Filed in Music Reviews
Published on December 6, 2021
Reviewed by Stuart Mason

South Arts Folk & Traditional Arts Cross-Border Mentor-Apprentice Program

Filed in Here & There
Published on December 6, 2021

Folklife From Home WNC: Call for artists

Filed in Here & There
Published on December 6, 2021

Spring Fed Records Haley Family set

Filed in Here & There
Published on December 6, 2021

Sepia Tones podcast

Filed in Features
Published on December 6, 2021

Clyde Davenport

Filed in Final Notes
Published on December 6, 2021
By

Bill Stewart

Filed in Final Notes
Published on December 6, 2021
By Lindell Blackford

Kathy World

Filed in Final Notes
Published on December 6, 2021
By Alice Gerrard

Mike Ramsey

Filed in Final Notes
Published on December 6, 2021
By Malcolm Smith

“The Preacher and The Bear”: Not a Folk Song, But a Song of the Folk

Filed in Features
Published on December 6, 2021
By Ted Olson

Rhythm and Genes: The Moonshining and Old-Time Music of Southwest Virginia’s Boyd Family

Filed in Features
Published on December 6, 2021
By Malcolm Smith

Dark-Natured Songs: The Bare Family Legacy

Filed in Features
Published on December 6, 2021
By Derek Piotr and Jackie Hedstrom

African-American Fiddling from Texas (Teodar Jackson)

Filed in Music Reviews
Published on December 6, 2021
Reviewed by Suzy Thompson

Fiddling from Ozark County, Missouri (H. K. Silvey)

Filed in Music Reviews
Published on December 6, 2021
Reviewed by Suzy Thompson

Closing the Gap (Molsky’s Mountain Drifters)

Filed in Music Reviews
Published on December 6, 2021
Reviewed by Stuart Mason

Old Tin (Erynn Marshall and Carl Jones)

Filed in Music Reviews
Published on December 6, 2021
Reviewed by Stuart Mason

Random Access Mash (Hard Drive)

Filed in Music Reviews
Published on December 6, 2021
Reviewed by John Fabke

Shaking Down the Acorns (Scott Prouty)

Filed in Music Reviews
Published on December 6, 2021
Reviewed by Pete Peterson

Spider Tales (Jake Blount)

Filed in Music Reviews
Published on December 6, 2021
Reviewed by Mark Humphrey

Rural Rhythm: The Story of Old-Time Country Music in 78 Records (by Tony Russell)

Filed in Book Reviews
Published on December 6, 2021
Reviewed by Ted Olson

Attic #22: Bands, Ensembles, Groups, Aggregations

Filed in Attic
Published on December 6, 2021
By Paul Wells

The Harry Smith B-Sides (Various artists)

Filed in Music Reviews
Published on December 6, 2021
Reviewed by Mark Humphrey

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

Filed in Music Reviews
Published on December 6, 2021
Reviewed by Bruce Miller

The Old Texas Fiddle Vol. III (Tricia Spencer & Howard Rains)

Filed in Music Reviews
Published on December 6, 2021
Reviewed by Mark Humphrey

Nuevas Acequias, Río Viejo: Traditional Music of Northern New Mexico (Lone Piñon)

Filed in Music Reviews
Published on December 6, 2021
Reviewed by Mark Humphrey

Kentucky Fiddlers Home Recordings: Volume 1—Fleming and Bath Counties (Various artists)

Filed in Music Reviews
Published on December 6, 2021
Reviewed by Pete Peterson

Stony Run (Ken and Brad Kolodner)

Filed in Music Reviews
Published on December 6, 2021
Reviewed by Stuart Mason

Hello Stranger (Eliza Meyer)

Filed in Music Reviews
Published on December 6, 2021
Reviewed by Pete Peterson

Acorns (Ben Winship)

Filed in Music Reviews
Published on December 6, 2021
Reviewed by Timothy Jones

Appalachian Fiddle Music: Featuring 43 Fiddlers and 188 of Their Tunes (by Drew Beisswenger and Roy Andrade with Scott Prouty)

Filed in Book Reviews
Published on December 6, 2021
Reviewed by Jordan Smith

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

Filed in Music Reviews
Published on December 6, 2021
Reviewed by Mark Humphrey

National Heritage Fellowships

Filed in Congrats
Published on November 29, 2020

In Quarantine

Filed in Events
Published on November 29, 2020

Attic #21: Fiddle and Guitar

Filed in Attic
Published on November 29, 2020
By Paul F. Wells
From the Magazine: Volume 15, Number 1

Defiantly Joyous, by the True and Trembling String Band

Filed in Music Reviews
Published on October 23, 2020
Reviewed by Pete Peterson
From the Magazine: Volume 15, Number 1

Things Left Behind, by Thornton Spencer

Filed in Music Reviews
Published on October 23, 2020
Reviewed by Bradley Kramer
From the Magazine: Volume 15, Number 1

Tell It to Me: Revisiting the Johnson City Sessions

Filed in Music Reviews
Published on October 23, 2020
Reviewed by Bob Bovee
From the Magazine: Volume 15, Number 1

Tom Mindte & Mason Via (self-titled)

Filed in Music Reviews
Published on October 23, 2020
Reviewed by John Fabke

Mike Bryant and Paul Brown (self-titled)

Filed in Music Reviews
Published on October 23, 2020
Reviewed by John Fabke
From the Magazine: Volume 15, Number 1

Cinnamon Tree, by Nora Brown

Filed in Music Reviews
Published on October 22, 2020
Reviewed by Bradley Kramer
From the Magazine: Volume 15, Number 1

Speed Bumps on a Dirt Road: When Old Time Music Met Bluegrass, by John Cohen

Filed in Book Reviews
Published on October 22, 2020
Reviewed by Jordan Smith
From the Magazine: Volume 15, Number 1

Holy Smoke! by Rafe Stefanini and David Bragger

Filed in Music Reviews
Published on October 22, 2020
Reviewed by Stuart Mason
From the Magazine: Volume 15, Number 1

Old World Music of the Southern Appalachians, by Hog Eyed Man

Filed in Music Reviews
Published on October 22, 2020
Reviewed by Stuart Mason
From the Magazine: Volume 15, Number 1

The Fries Session

Filed in Music Reviews
Published on October 22, 2020
Reviewed by Pete Peterson
From the Magazine: Volume 15, Number 1

Fiddle Noir: African American Fiddlers on Early Phonograph Recordings, 1925-1949

Filed in Music Reviews
Published on October 22, 2020
Reviewed by Bruce Miller
From the Magazine: Volume 15, Number 1

Pictures from Life’s Other Side: The Man and His Music in Rare Photos and Recordings, by Hank Williams

Filed in Music Reviews
Published on October 22, 2020
Reviewed by Mark Humphrey

La Coppia Sciascia: Italian Folk Songs from Abruzzo, 1927-1930 by Pasquale and Chiarina Sciascia

Filed in Music Reviews
Published on October 22, 2020
Reviewed by Mark Humphrey
From the Magazine: Volume 15, Number 1

Allison de Groot and Tatiana Hargreaves (self-titled)

Filed in Music Reviews
Published on October 22, 2020
Reviewed by Stuart Mason
From the Magazine: Volume 15, Number 1

The Highwoods Moment

Filed in Features
Published on October 22, 2020
By Mac Benford
From the Magazine: Volume 15, Number 1

Teodar Jackson and African American Fiddling from Texas: Lost Music from the Rural

Filed in Features
Published on October 10, 2020
By Dan Foster
From the Magazine: Volume 15, Number 1

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

Filed in Features
Published on October 10, 2020
By Ted Olson
From the Magazine: Volume 15, Number 1

Tommy Thompson: New-Timey String Band Musician by Lewis M. Stern

Filed in Book Reviews
Published on January 20, 2020
Reviewed by Jordan Smith
From the Magazine: Volume 14, Number 12

Roger Netherton (Self-Titled)

Filed in Music Reviews
Published on January 20, 2020
Reviewed by Timothy Jones
From the Magazine: Volume 14, Number 12

Goodbye My Honey I’m Gone by Molly McBride and the Sigogglin’ String Band

Filed in Music Reviews
Published on January 20, 2020
Reviewed by Mark Humphrey
From the Magazine: Volume 14, Number 12

Milkers and Hollers by Old Time Snake Milkers & Hoot and Holler

Filed in Music Reviews
Published on January 20, 2020
Reviewed by Pete Peterson
From the Magazine: Volume 14, Number 12

Five Mile Mountain Road (Self-Titled)

Filed in Music Reviews
Published on January 20, 2020
Reviewed by Mark Humphrey
From the Magazine: Volume 14, Number 12

Jewels of the San Joaquin by Dos Valley Trio

Filed in Music Reviews
Published on January 20, 2020
Reviewed by Pete Peterson
From the Magazine: Volume 14, Number 12

Creoles of South Louisiana: Three Centuries Strong
 by Elista Istre

Filed in Book Reviews
Published on January 20, 2020
Reviewed by Stuart Mason
From the Magazine: Volume 14, Number 12

Dellorto Island by Victor Furtado

Filed in Music Reviews
Published on January 20, 2020
Reviewed by Mark Humphrey
From the Magazine: Volume 14, Number 12

Jalopy Records 7” record series

Filed in Music Reviews
Published on January 20, 2020
Reviewed by Bruce Miller
From the Magazine: Volume 14, Number 12

Young Old-Time Musicians of North Carolina

Filed in Features
Published on January 20, 2020
By Zoe van Buren
From the Magazine: Volume 14, Number 12

Y’all Come: The Ballad of Big Jim Folsom

Filed in Features
Published on January 20, 2020
By Burgin Mathews
From the Magazine: Volume 14, Number 12

Mayo’s the Name, Fiddlin’s the Game: Ralph Mayo

Filed in Features
Published on January 20, 2020
By Gary Reid
From the Magazine: Volume 14, Number 12

Helen White

Filed in Final Notes
Published on January 20, 2020
By Brett Morris
From the Magazine: Volume 14, Number 12

Congrats: 2020 GRAMMY Nominees

Filed in Congrats
Published on January 20, 2020
From the Magazine: Volume 14, Number 12

Congrats: North Randolph Historical Society

Filed in Congrats
Published on January 20, 2020
From the Magazine: Volume 14, Number 12

Congrats: Bob Fulcher

Filed in Congrats
Published on January 20, 2020
From the Magazine: Volume 14, Number 12

Donna Kirk Correll

Filed in Final Notes
Published on January 20, 2020
By Jerry Correll
From the Magazine: Volume 14, Number 12