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

Published on 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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An Interview with George Wilson

Published on July 4, 2022 By Jordan Smith

George Wilson has been a mainstay of the contra dance scene in the Northeast for four decades. He has played fiddle with one of the premiere dance bands, Fennig’s All… Read More →

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A True Adventure in Field Recording

Published on July 4, 2022 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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Lloyd Jeptha “Jabe” Dillon

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

This article is excerpted and adapted from the book Fiddle Tunes from Mississippi: Commercial and Informal Recordings, 1920 – 2018, by Harry Bolick and Tony Russell, published in 2021 by… Read More →

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Attic #23: Many Strings, No Neck

Published on July 4, 2022 By Paul Wells

All images from the collection of Paul Wells. Organologists—scholars who study and classify musical instruments—lump them into large, broad generic groupings. All stringed instruments, for example, are classed as “chordophones,”… Read More →

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Sepia Tones podcast

Published on December 6, 2021 By Sarah Bryan

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 →

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

Published on December 6, 2021 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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Rhythm and Genes: The Moonshining and Old-Time Music of Southwest Virginia’s Boyd Family

Published on December 6, 2021 By Malcolm Smith

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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Dark-Natured Songs: The Bare Family Legacy

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

Lena Bare Turbyfill (photo courtesy of Elizabeth Gwyn) Listening to field recordings can be an experience of intimacy and distance at the same time: intimacy because we hear the unedited… Read More →

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Attic #22: Bands, Ensembles, Groups, Aggregations

Published on December 6, 2021 By Paul Wells

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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Erwin A. Thompson: The Music Breathed Him

Published on March 2, 2021 By Janet Grace Riehl

November 9, 1915-March 28, 2015 If you have ever played or heard “John Short’s Tune,” a lively polka, then you have met my father, Erwin A. Thompson. He passed the… Read More →

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Attic #21: Fiddle and Guitar

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

One of the popular, recurring topics of discussion, debate, disagreement, and disputation among fans of old-time music is the question of when guitars began to be used as accompanying instruments… Read More →

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The Highwoods Moment

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

Old-time music experienced a great loss in February 2020, with the passing of banjo player Mac Benford. Mac had submitted this essay to the OTH a few months earlier, and… Read More →

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

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

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

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

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 →

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Young Old-Time Musicians of North Carolina

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

The North Carolina Arts Council has recently completed work on its Millennial Traditional Artists Directory, an effort to promote the work of young traditional artists in North Carolina. The project… Read More →

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