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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 …
American Songcatcher
This informative podcast featuring traditional music is hosted by musicologist/musician Nicholas Edward Williams.
- If you only listen to one episode, I recommend the deep dive into …
Radio show/Podcast — Deep In Tradition with Rich Kirby
Miscellaneous Podcasts
- Meg Wobus Beller – Fiddle Studio – …
Slippery Hill YouTube Channel
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 …
Old Time Backup Guitar
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 …
Old Time Resource of the Week: Pegram Jam
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 …
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