I have promoted at least one podcast here before.  This week I’m throwing out several that I just learned about.  They look promising.  Help me check’em out. Meg Wobus Beller – Fiddle Studio – talkin’ ’bout fiddlin’ Ozark Highlands Radio – live traditional music with a live audience – listen online or find it as ...

Old Time Resource of the Week:  Slippery Hill YouTube Channel I featured the Slippery Hill website some time ago as a repository of source recordings of fiddle tunes.  Recently I have discovered their YouTube channel, which has a lot of additional resources, including dubs of cassettes from the 80s, like this one from a party ...

Old Time Resource of the Week:  Old Time Backup GuitarA bit of a departure, this site is primarily selling a book on, er, old time backup guitar.  I haven’t seen the book but the samples look interesting — tablature transcriptions from actual old source recordings. But there are other good resources there, too. The Music! page ...

Old Time Resource of the Week:  Pegram Jam This resource is well-known to some of you. This living room jam in Pegram, Tennessee, just west of Nashville, ran from 2001 to 2007 and lives on in the form of the excellent resources they developed and shared with each other.  Do check it out.

Fiddler George Jackson and mandolinist Tristan Scroggins came up with the idea of recording sort of a “top 100” fiddle tunes in one mammoth recording session.  Here’s how they describe the project on the Bandcamp page: Have you ever wondered what tunes to learn next, or what some good tunes to learn ...

Old Time Resource of the Week:  Dittyville:  Website and YouTube channel The Musical Home of Erynn Marshall and Carl Jones.   Erynn is a wonderful fiddler from Canada who has embraced our Appalachian fiddle ways.  She is also an author, a great teacher, and coordinator of Old Time Week at the Swannanoa Gathering.   Carl ...