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 →
Main Content
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
Songs that Tell Stories: Thomas Burton and the Appalachian Ballad Tradition
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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Y’all Come: The Ballad of Big Jim Folsom
by Burgin Mathews
In March of 1962, a new political season was gearing up in Alabama, and so-called “hillbilly” music was everywhere. “It has gotten so you can’t run for governor in Alabama,”… Read More →
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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 →