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James Duff, fiddler, Hazard, Kentucky, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZC4-4724
"And I think when they're playing good, clean, honest music--fiddling, banjo-picking, guitar-playing, what have you--I think you're just as close to heaven on this earth as you'll ever be if you've got the music in you."
-Wilson Douglas (1922-1999), Clay County, WV fiddler
Archives for Secret Museum of the Air with Citizen Kafka and Pat Conte
Archives of Traditional Music (Indiana University)
Berea College Appalachian Sound Archives
Blues Archives (University of Mississippi)
Indiana University Archives of Traditional Music
John & Ruby Lomax' 1939 recording trip
Library of Congress Recorded Sound Reference Center
Music in the Digital Library of Appalachia (incredible)
Music Library and Sound Recording Archive (Bowling Green State Univ.)
Traditional Mountain Gospel MP3s
Vintage Fiddlers Oral History Project (Kentucky)
WPAQ (essential Mt. Airy, N.C. radio station)
William Ransom Hogan Archive of New Orleans Jazz
Ahmet Baycu's Roots of American Fiddle Music
Anthology of American Folk Music (the book)
Folklife Sourcebook: A Directory of Folklife Resources in the United States
Lift Every Voice: Music in American Life (University of Virginia)
North American Traditions (fiddle)
Old Time Music & Dance Community Website
Roots of American Fiddle Music
Sugar in the Gourd (streaming old time music)
That's My Rabbit, My Dog Caught it: Traditional Southern Instrumental Styles (liner notes)
Appalachian String Band Festival (Clifftop)
Blue Ridge Institute and Museum
California State Old Time Fiddler's Association
Charlie Walden's Missouri Fiddling in Cyberspace
Chicago Old Town School of Folk Music
Morris Family Old Time Music Festival (the classic film)
St. James Hotel Sessions, Konxville, 1929-30
Wisconsin Folksongs Collection, 1937-1946
Vintage Fiddlers Oral History Project (Kentucky)
Old Time Music in Portland, Oregon
Stavin' Chain playing guitar and singing the ballad "Batson," Lafayette, La. 1934, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs collection, LC-USZ62-131158
The Site for the Great Kentucky Fiddler Clyde Davenport
Tommy Jarrell & Fred Cockerham
Fiddle Tunes of the Frontier: Henry Reed
Stanley Brothers (mostly a place to buy cheapo discs)
Me
with Bill Monroe at the Charlotte, MI Bluegrass festival, 1993
Minnesota Bluegrass and Old Time Music
University of Mississippi Libraries Blues Archive
Cajun Fiddler, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs collection, LC-USZ61-2012
Cajun French Music Association
California. Nevada, and Hawaii Cajun and Zydeco Bands (collection of links)
Louisiana Cajun and Zydeco Musicians (many links)
Border Cultures: Conjunto Music
Conjunto Kingz de Flavio Longoria
Conjunto Lyrics (from Puro Conjunto)
Dave's Tex - Mex, Tejano, Conjunto Accordion Forum
Guadelupe Cultural Arts Center
The John Donald Robb Field Recordings (1944-1979) (Southestern and Mexican music, incredible collection)
John Dyer Conjunto Photographs
KEDA Radio Jalapeno (Conjunto station in San Antonio streamed live)
Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center
Mission Trail's Conjunto Express
Musica de la Frontera: Archive of Mexican-American Music
Mexican-American Music Traditions of Washington State
Roots of Tejano and Conjunto Music
El Saxofón in Tejano and Norteño Music
South Texas Conjunto Association
Universidad de Reyes Acordeones (Reyes Fourm)
Yu-Mex Music (Yugoslavian Mariachi bands)
Center for Appalachian Studies and Services (East Tennessee State University)
Center for Black Music Research (Columbia College, Chicago)
The Center for Popular Music (Middle Tennessee State University)
Center for Southern African-American Music (University of South Carolina)
Center for Texas Music History (Texas State University- San Marcos)
Collections Relating to the History of Country Music (Georgia State)
The Crooked Road (Southwest Virginia Music)
East Tennessee State University Bluegrass, Old Time, and Country
Hillbilly Music: Source and Symbol (University of North Carolina)
Jerry Lee Lewis Online Research Center
John Edwards Memorial Foundation
John Quincy Wolf Folklore (Folksong) Collection, Missouri State University)
National Ragtime and Jazz Archive, (Southern Illinois University)
W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, (Appalachain State University)
Wade Ward, 1937, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LOT 7414-D, no. N125
Banjo-L archives (newsgroup)
Chalino Sanchez (El Campachalino.com)
Chalino Sanchez (El Pelavacas.com)
Compendium of 5 string banjo tunings
Gourd Banjos: From Africa To The Appalachians
Gourd Banjo music samples (via David Hyatt's webpage)
Hardanger Fiddle Association of America
The Instrument Encyclopedia (with samples)
The Orpheon Foundation Museum of Historical Musical Instruments
British Library, National Sound Archive
Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project
The Historic American Sheet Music Project
Honky Tonks, Hymns, and the Blues
Lester L. Levy Collection of Sheet Music
National Library of Canada-Music Division
Online 78 Discographical Project
'Perfessor' Bill Edwards Ragtime Sheet Music Covers and MIDI Files
Save Our Sounds: America's Recorded Sound Heritage Project
Stanford University Archive of Recorded Sound
The Mississippi Rag: The Voice of Traditional Jazz and Ragtime
New World Records (liner notes)
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-90925
British Archive of Country Music
Fiddle Tunes.com (West Virginia)
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