A LIBRARY 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

AUDIO ON THE WEB Avant Gardy Spud Mountain RFD KBOO 2nd & 4th Wed, 6-7am pst Wild Hog in the Hoods Sun 8pm est Cumberland Trail with Bobby Fulcher Sun 8:30pm est Sugar in the Gourd Joe Bussard radio archive This Old Porch-WNCW Sun 6pm pst   GENERAL OLD-TIME LINKS banjogirl.com Ahmet Baycu's Roots of American Fiddle Music Ben Austin's essays Center for Appalachian Studies and Services Clifftop Chicago Barn Dance Company Directory of Southern Culture Online Ed Haley Fiddle Tune Transcriptions Fasola - The Sacred Harp Festival of American Fiddle Tunes Fiddler's Grove (R) Festival and Campground Fiddler Magazine Five Strings Inside: Celtic & Old Time Banjo Folk Music: An Index to Recorded resource Galax Old Time Fiddlers Convention Gordon Banks' Old Time Music Joe Bussard John & Ruby Lomax' 1939 recording trip Kitchen Musician Library of Congress, Henry Reed Collection Marynell Young's Kentucky Vintage Fiddler Oral History Project Mike Seeger Musical Spoons National Oldtime Fiddlers' Contest at Weiser Native Ground Music Old Time Music & Dance Community Website Old-Time Clawhammer Banjo Oldtime Country Music Newsgroup Old-Time Herald Oldtime-L email list Oldtime Music Web Page David Lynch's Old-Time Music Portland Sacred Harp shape note singing Portland Folklore Society Roots Music Report Topsoil - A Century of Country Music Joe Bussard's Vintage78 White Tree Productions Cascade Blues Association - gold mine   BLUES, JUGS & BLUEGRASS Kinsel & Hyde's superb blues links Bluegrass Joke Generator! Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index to Recordings FolkLib Index Lisa Glade's online guitar tuner Banjo Newsletter Music theory for the masses Bluegrass Net audio links Bluegrass World Oregon Bluegrass Association Traditional-L email list Don Depoy's dissertation on bluegrass   Jug Band Page Jug Band Rag magazine Skiffle Bands Washboards International