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Website: Slower Than Dirt
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 …
YouTube channel: FiddleStar — Megan Lynch Chowning
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 …
Old Time Music on Soundcloud
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
YouTube channel: Adam Hurt’s Online Jam
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 …
Old Time Music on Bandcamp
Old Time Resource of the Week: Old Time Music on Bandcamp
Bandcamp, if you haven’t explored it, is like its own Internet of music, pretty much outside the world of the major labels. Consequently, a good place for “our” music. You can listen …
Website: Ballad of America
Old Time Resource of the Week: Ballad of America
This ambitious organization seeks to make America’s diverse musical heritage an integral part of our youth’s education. The very well-organized website includes a page on old time music with lots of …
Website: Mary Gordon and Hilary Dirlam Present
Old Time Resource of the Week: Mary Gordon and Hilary Dirlam Present
What better resource to feature this week?! Many of you have well-thumbed copies of these books. This will help them get into the hands of the next generation and beyond. Mary …
YouTube channel: Dave Wells
Old Time Resource of the Week: YouTube channel of Dave Wells
Oh, man, does he have some choice videos on his channel! The ones with Greg Hooven and Rose Sinclair drew me in, but there are many, many other great ones, mostly campground jams from the late 1980s at Galax, Mt. …
Website: DrDosido — Paul L. Tyler
Old Time Resource of the Week: DrDosido ( Paul L. Tyler )
This site has an impressive set of resources and recordings. Tyler is a Midwest-based folklorist and musician. It is heavy on Midwestern music, as you’d expect, but there are plenty of Southern and Southern-styled fiddlers on …
Play-along website: The Old-Time Jam
Old Time Resource of the Week: The Old-Time Jam website
This site promises to play accompaniment to old time tunes so you can play along. It’s associated with the Brainjo Academy. The Jam site appears to be free, with membership options that let you download MP3s and …
YouTube: Jam Etiquette — Chris Henry
I ran across a very interesting video of two bluegrassers discussing jam etiquette. It’s not a new topic and there are a lot of web pages covering it but I heard some things in the video that went a little deeper.
Website and Podcast: Folkways Records Old Time catalog
Old Time Resource of the Week: Folkways Records Old Time catalog
Scanning through the cover images, I was amazed at how many of them I’ve owned over the years. What an incredible resource! They’re partnered with the Smithsonian now and you can listen to or download albums or single …
Website: Knoxville Old Time
Wow! Who knew? Knoxville has one of the best looking and full-featured websites for old time music I’ve seen. It focuses on the Knoxville area, of course, but there is a lot of good information.
YouTube channel: The Folk Revival Project
The main purpose of this channel is to …
YouTube channel: Will and Deni McIntyre
Old Time Resource of the Week: Will and Deni McIntyre’s YouTube channel
Will and Deni have been working behind the scenes for years filming and producing high-quality programs and documentaries about music and culture, most notably the PBS programs for
YouTube playlist: JoeBass — Joe DeJarnette
Old Time Resource of the Week: JoeBass’s YouTube playlist
Joe “JoeBass” DeJarnette is a famous character in the contemporary old time scene. Mainly known as a bass player, producer, and engineer, I think. He has compiled a killer list of old time source recordings …
Banjo bonanza: Zepp Music
Another banjo-centric resource. Don Zepp has created many, many videos of old time tunes played on banjos from his long-since-gone music store. The tunes are the ones we play a lot and make a great reference library. His …
Video website: Folkstreams
As they describe themselves, “Folkstreams is a non-profit dedicated to finding, preserving, contextualizing, and showcasing documentary films on American traditional cultures.”
Radio station: WPAQ in Mt. Airy
When we lived in Winston-Salem, WPAQ was just an AM radio station out of Mt. Airy. We could pick it up barely well enough to listen but we listened faithfully. The founder, Ralph Epperly, was still with us then …
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