Old Time Resource of the Week: Featured artist: Rhiannon Giddens   We continue honoring African-American musicians in old time music.  In one way, Rhiannon Giddens [Wikipedia] is a come-lately, but I believe she is the key to the complete sea change in understanding of the old time music heritage.  That shift was brought ...

Old Time Resource of the Week: Black String Band Tradition   We’ll start our Black History Month exploration with a program from a couple of decades ago, re-posted here from the Afropop Worldwide site. It gives us one view/overview of this history, and features the voice of Howard “Louie Bluie” Armstrong. My eyes and ears ...

Old Time Resource of the Week: Mainly Norfolk A bit of a departure.  Many of our songs come from British and Irish sources.  Also, many folks from over there have recorded songs from this side of the pond.  Mainly Norfolk shows the history of the song, links to sources of more information, and ...

Old Time Resource of the Week:  Internet Archive (archive.org) This amazing resource is good for many, many things related to our music.  There are 78s, LPs, etc., but also old books, tune books, radio programs, and other things.  And if you have something to share, you can upload it.  It’s like YouTube for books, audio, and other media.  Just check it ...

Old Time Resource of the Week:  Old Time Conversations This was a new one on me.  I’m glad I ran across it.  High quality video conversations with old time musicians.  Most of the content looks to be for sale as DVDs or books, but there’s a great video of the Canote twins on the home page, ...

Old Time Resource of the Week:  Dust to Digital Radio Dust-to-Digital is a wonderful record label.  They have recently launched an Internet radio station which streams music from their massive archive of recordings from around the globe.  Look for the player widget on their home page. It’s not all string band music, nor ...

Old Time Resource of the Week:  The Henry Reed Collection What a wonder that this collection exists.  Folklorist and fiddler Alan Jabbour interviewed, documented, transcribed, learned, propagated, and preserved as much as he could of Henry Reed, an amazing player from West Virginia.  Reed was born in 1884 and so the tunes he heard growing up ...

Old Time Resource of the Week:  Slower Than Dirt For some reason there’s a heck of a lot of old time music on the West Coast.  This site from Seattle has a wealth of tunes and other resources, many of which you’ll recognize from my earlier posts.  Peruse this extensive site; I think you’ll ...

Old Time Resource of the Week:  FiddleStar YouTube channel Megan Lynch Chowning is a really good fiddler and all-around musician.  But she also is a great teacher and hosts several music camps.  Two more things that make her worth checking out — she is thoughtful and hilarious.  And smart — that makes three ...

Old Time Resource of the Week:  Soundcloud This will take some digging and experimenting on your part, but there are some gems buried here.  Any keywords you search for will return as many puzzling false hits as actual old time music.  I had pretty good luck with “fiddle banjo”  You could also search for song titles.  ...

Old Time Resource of the Week:  Adam Hurt’s Online Jam YouTube channel Wow!  What a good resource for learning and playing tunes.  The one I watched had Adam on fiddle and Beth Hartness on guitar.  They played eleven D tunes, many of which we play.  The others would be welcome additions.  I counted 22 episodes lasting ...