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Our Little Liberry of Articles


A High and Lonesome Sound (Hazel Dickens)
The Amish Barn Dance (kind of large files)
Bluegrass That Can Twang and Be Cool, Too
Casey Jones
Desperate Man Blues
Devoted Indies Serve Public as Curators of Musical Past
Life at 78 Rpm Is Different From Today
Oran do Shep
The Untamed Sounds of 'Outside Music'
White Blues


THE OLD-TIME HERALD
 
A sampling of articles and back issues
 
Browse the back issues
 
MUSICAL TRADITIONS ONLINE MAGAZINE ARTICLES - selected for old-time content
 
Appalachian Traditional Music - A Short History
Cecil Sharp in America - Collecting in the Appalachians
Saints' Paradise - Trombone Shout Bands: The Men and their Music
Mel Durham: Cosmopolitan Old-Time Fiddler
Music from the Lost Provinces - Old-Time String Bands
     from Ashe County North Carolina, 1927 - 31
Across the Blue Mountains - An Appalachian and Adirondack field trip
The Hammons Family - The Traditions of a West Virginia Family and Their Friends
Play Me Something Quick and Devilish: Bob Holt - Old-Time Square Dance Fiddler
The East Texas Serenaders: Extended sleevenotes to Document release
Nat Reese - Life and music in west Virginia
The Past Returns to the Present: Archaic British hymn-singing practices survive
     in London's West Indian churches
Fred Stoneking - Recollections of a Missouri country fiddler
 
FROM THE VOYAGER RECORDS WEB SITE
 
So You Think You Can't Play by Ear
The Circle of Fifths
Jam Session Etiquette
Relaxed Picking on Guitar and Mandolin
Tendinitis Problems of Musicians - Identification, Prevention, Treatment
Contra and Square Dance Playing
 
AND MORE...
 
Alabama's Most Recorded FiddleR, Joyce Cauthen
David Lynch's "Fiddlers Hall of Fame" articles and sound files
The Great Fiddling Contests of 1926 (P.E.I.)
What is Old Time Music?
In Memory of Blind Thomas of Old Takoma: John Fahey, 1939-2001
Cornbread When I'm Hungry: Dock Boggs and Rock Criticism
     William Hogeland, Atlantic Monthly
Dissertation: The Cultural Context of Bluegrass by Don DePoy

 
 
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