Dr. Dan Margolies  ø  Batten Associate Professor of History, Virginia Wesleyan College

Email: dmargolies@vwc.edu    ø    phone: 757.455.5716    ø    Office: Blocker 15

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Traditional Music Links 

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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 

 

 

Old Time Music 

What is Old Time Music?

 

Essential Archives and Collections of Old Time and Traditional Music 

 

 Archives for Secret Museum of the Air with Citizen Kafka and Pat Conte  

Archives of Traditional Music (Indiana University)

American Music Archives

Berea College Appalachian Sound Archives

Blues Archives (University of Mississippi)

Honking Duck

Indiana University Archives of Traditional Music

John & Ruby Lomax' 1939 recording trip

Juneberry 78s page  

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

 

 

General Sites on Traditional Music 

 

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

Hillbilly Music.com

Lift Every Voice:  Music in American Life (University of Virginia)

Mudcat Cafe

Mugwumps Online

Musical Traditions (Mustrad)

New Orleans Discography, 1920s

North American Traditions (fiddle)

Old Time Music & Dance Community Website

Old Time Music Homepage

Old Time Music from 78s

Old Time Music on the Web

Public Domain 4 U

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)

Sites for Specific States or Events

 

Alabama Folklife

Appalachian String Band Festival (Clifftop)

Arizona Old Time Fiddlers

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

Florida State Fiddlers

Galax Fiddler's Convention

Hill Country Tunes

Missouri old time fiddling

Morris Family Old Time Music Festival (the classic film)

New River Old Time Music

Old Harp Singing in Tennessee

St. James Hotel Sessions, Konxville, 1929-30

Traditional Music of Alabama

Wisconsin Folksongs Collection, 1937-1946

Vintage Fiddlers Oral History Project (Kentucky)

Virginia Folklore Society

Old Time Music in Portland, Oregon

Texas Music Museum

 

 

Stavin' Chain playing guitar and singing the ballad "Batson," Lafayette, La. 1934, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs collection, LC-USZ62-131158

 

Sites for Specific Old Time Musicians

 Brother Claude Ely

Carter Family Fold

Carter Family on the Air

Carter Family Songs

Carter Family Song Texts  

Roy Lee Centers

John Cohen

The Site for the Great Kentucky Fiddler Clyde Davenport

Conway Twitty

Ok, not an old time musician, but still great

Delmore Brothers

Lotus Dickey Reunion

Charlie Feathers webpage

Bruce Greene

Edden Hammons page

Tommy Jarrell & Fred Cockerham

Fiddle Tunes of the Frontier:  Henry Reed

Joe Barrick's one-man band

John Fabke

Lee Stripling

Mare’s Nest

Mike Seeger

Art Stamper's homepage

Stanley Brothers (mostly a place to buy cheapo discs)

 

That is me with Bill Monroe at the Charlotte, Michigan Bluegrass festival, 1993

 

Bluegrass

Bill Monroe Lyrics

Bill Monroe

Bluegrass Blog

Bluegrass Country

Monroe Brothers Foundation

Minnesota Bluegrass and Old Time Music 

Ralph Stanley

Ralph Stanley Museum

Southeastern Bluegrass links

Sullivan Family

 

Blues 

Blues World

The Delta Blues Museum

Mance Lipscomb Discography

Paramount Records Discography

University of Mississippi Libraries Blues Archive

Weenie Campbell  

Cajun Fiddler, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs collection, LC-USZ61-2012

Cajun Music Links

Balfa Toujours homepage

Clarence's Baton Rouge Information & Cajun/Zydeco Music Guide

Cajun French Music Association

Cajun French by Themes

Cajun Music MP3s

California. Nevada, and Hawaii Cajun and Zydeco Bands (collection of links)

La Louisianne records

Louisiana Folk Roots

Louisiana Cajun and Zydeco Musicians (many links)

 

Conjunto Music

 

Border Cultures: Conjunto Music

Cancioneros de Trovadores

Chano Cadena y Su Conjunto

Conjunto Conservation Society

Conjunto Express

Conjunto Heritage Taller

Conjunto Kingz de Flavio Longoria

Conjunto Los Pochos

Conjunto Lyrics (from Puro Conjunto)

Dave's Tex - Mex, Tejano, Conjunto Accordion Forum

Los Donneños

Los Dos Gilbertos

Esteban Steve Jordan

Flaco Jimenez

Guadelupe Cultural Arts Center

Hometown Boys

John Dyer Conjunto Photographs

KEDA Radio Jalapeno (Conjunto station in San Antonio streamed live)

Los Badd Boyz del Valle

Mission Trail's Conjunto Express

Roots of Tejano and Conjunto Music

El Saxofón in Tejano and Norteño Music

South Texas Conjunto Association

Steve Jordan

Tejano Roots

Universidad de Reyes Acordeones (Reyes Fourm)

 

Norteño and Mexican-American Music

Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center

Encuentro de Jaraneros de California

Hispano Music & Culture from the Northern Rio Grande

Los Huracanes del Norte

The John Donald Robb Field Recordings (1944-1979)

Musica de la Frontera:  Archive of Mexican-American Music

Mexican-American Music Traditions of Washington State

Nortec Collective

Pasajero

Puro Mariachi

Ramon Ayala

Los Tigres del Norte

Los Tucanes de Tijuana

Yu-Mex Music (Yugoslavian Mariachi bands)

Regional Mexican Music

ComoSueno

Corridos Prohibitos

Corridos sin Fronteras

Jalisco harp

La Choya

Casa de la Musica Mexicana

El Centro Cultural de Mexico

Fonoteca INAH catalog

Grupo Mono Blanco

Grupo Sones de México

Huapango.com

Mariachi Resources

The Mexican Accordion

Mexican Music links

 Música Michoacana

Música P'urhepecha

Polka Madre

Son Jarocho Links

Tlacotalpan, Veracruz

Tlen Huicani  

 

Institutional Sites

Blue Ridge Institute

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

H-Southern Music

Hillbilly Music: Source and Symbol (University of North Carolina)

Institute of Texan Cultures

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

 

A few instrument Sites

Accordion Apocalypse

Accordion Links

Bajosextos Cascabel

Banjo-L archives (newsgroup)

Banjo Sightings Database

Blue Banjo

Button Accordion

Candelas Guitars

Chalino Sanchez (El Campachalino.com)

Chalino Sanchez (El Pelavacas.com)

Compendium of 5 string banjo tunings

Elderly Instruments

Fraulini Guitars

Gabbanelli Accordions

Gavilan Accordions

Gourd Banjos: From Africa To The Appalachians

Gourd Banjo music samples (via David Hyatt's webpage)

Guadalupe Custom Strings

Hardanger Fiddle Association of America

Harp guitars

Horn-u-copia

J. Romero Banjos

Jew's Harp page

Jimenez Bajo Sextos

Karlitos Way Accordions

Kevin Enoch Banjos

Mandolin Cafe

Mid-East Ethnic Instruments

Music Emporium

Pasaye Bajo Sextos

Pedal Steel page

The Instrument Encyclopedia (with samples)

The Orpheon Foundation Museum of Historical Musical Instruments

Paracho del Norte Custom Guitars and Guitar Repair

Picker's Supply

Reyes Accordions

Smakula Fretted Instruments

Spruce Tree Music

Steel Guitar

Annotated Checklist of
Violins Made Between 1800-1849

 

WinansBanjo

 

 

 

Other Worthwhile Music sites

 

American Music

America Music Resources on the Web

British Library, National Sound Archive

Center for Traditional Music and Dance

Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project

Cylinders on the Web

Cowboy lyrics

Cuca Records Database

Dear Old Illinois: Traditional Music of Downstate Illinois

Eskimo Spit Bath Orchestra

Famous fiddle tunes (a few of them anyway)

Fiddler's Companion

The Historic American Sheet Music Project

Honky Tonks, Hymns, and the Blues

Jug Band page

Lester L. Levy Collection of Sheet Music

Let's Polka

List of sites with music MP3s

National Library of Canada-Music Division

National Music Museum

O’Neill’s Music of Ireland

Online 78 Discographical Project

Percussive Arts Society

'Perfessor' Bill Edwards Ragtime Sheet Music Covers and MIDI Files

Phonozoic (early sound media)

Rare Tunes (mostly Scottish)

Red Hot Jazz Archive

Roots world

Sacred Harp Singing

Save Our Sounds: America's Recorded Sound Heritage Project

Stanford University Archive of Recorded Sound

Sustainable Music Blog

Swedish Phonograph Archive

TSF36.com

Weeniepedia 

Some Random and Interesting World Music Sites

Abkhaz dot org

Archive of Maori and Pacific Music

Archivo de la Música Andina

Arpas Antiguas de España

Asian Classical Mp3

Azeri Music

The Bamboo Origins of Far Eastern Bridged Zithers

Boleadora

Bulgarvoice

Calcutta Web

Canal Rif

Center for Traditional Music and Dance

Digital archive of Finnish Folk Tunes

Digital archive of north Indian classical music

Discography of Tuvan, Mongolian, and Siberian Music

Dishant

English folk and traditional music on the Internet A guide to resources

ETHNOMUSE: multimedia digital archive of slovenian folk music and folk dance culture

Farsitube

Gaida

Gamelan Nyai Saraswati

Historia del Charango

Hula Halau in Japan: A Case Study of Hula Schools in Tokyo

Inuit Throat Singing

A Kiosk of Information Related to Okinawan Music

Korean Classical Music

Korean Traditional Music

Kurd Online

Latin American Network Information Center (Music links)

Mountain Music Project

Mundo Etnico

Music and Songs in Laos

Music from Korea

Music in the Afghan North, 1967-1972

Music India OnLine

Music of Tuva

Músicos y Grupos Argentinos

Musique traditionnelle de France

Oriental Tunes

Pakistani Music

Paraguayan Melodies

Phnom Penh

Poongmul.com

Proud To Be Sikh

Punjabi Songs

Root Hog or Die (the World’s MP3 sites)

Sarod.com (Amjad Ali Khan)

Son Cubano

Songs in Quechua

South American Music in Miami: Colombian, Venezuelan, and Peruvian Traditions

Sublime Frequencies

Traditional Music of the Ethnic Minorities on the Philippine Islands

Venezuelan Harp

“Indian street musician and child, at Hong Kong, China,” c. 1900 Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-118544

Magazines and Articles on Traditional Music

Fiddler Magazine

The Mississippi Rag:  The Voice of Traditional Jazz and Ragtime

Native Ground Music articles

New World Records (liner notes)

Old Time Herald

 

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-90925

Record Labels and Sites selling traditional music

Archeophone Records

Arhoolie

Bear Family

British Archive of Country Music

Canasta Records

Canyon Records

Corason Records

County Sales

Del Bravo Records

Discos RyN

Down Home Music

Dust to Digital

Elderly Instruments

Fiddle Tunes.com (West Virginia)

Field Recorders' Collective

Freddie Records

Hacienda Records

Janie's Record Shop

Joe Brussard's Vintage 78s

Khazana: India Arts Online- Music Recordings & Instruments

Old Hat Records

Old Homestead Records

PuroConjunto.com

Revenant Records

Roots and Rhythm

Savoy Music Center

Smithsonian Folkways

System Records

Trikont

Venerable Music

Voyager Recordings

Yazoo Records

 

 The always great Wade Mainer

 

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