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.

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.

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 …

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 …

As they describe themselves, “Folkstreams is a non-profit dedicated to finding, preserving, contextualizing, and showcasing documentary films on American traditional cultures.”

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 …

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 …
  

• Meg Wobus Beller – Fiddle Studio – …
  

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 …