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Old-Time Country Music News Group - rec.music.country.old-time is intended to be an unmoderated discussion newsgroup to discuss music that originates in the southern Appalachian region of Virginia, North Carolina, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee but which also includes related music, for example, from Missouri, Quebec, or New England (contra). Topics of discussion may include but are not limited to: Fiddle Tunes, Banjo Tunes, Performers, Lyrics (if not copyrighted), Recordings, Festivals, Contests, Concerts, Books and Periodicals, Instruments, Instrument Techniques

For Musicians
Native Ground Music
Native Ground Music, founded in 1973, is the comprehensive resource for authentic southern Appalachian music and traditional music of rural America, the Civil War, and the Old West. Our gospel, bluegrass, and old-time folk music collections are unsurpassed, and we have a full catalog of outlaw ballads, cowboy music, pioneer music, Lewis & Clark music, and railroad songs. Instruction books written by author, teacher, and musician Wayne Erbsen teach total and absolute beginners how to play the mandolin, clawhammer banjo, bluegrass banjo, fiddle, guitar and dulcimer. We also publish a series of best-selling cookbooks of traditional pioneer recipes by Barbara Swell.

Cowpie Bunkhouse - Guitar Player Chord Swap

Accordion Store For Accordion And Band Lovers

Nashville Songwriters Foundation

Online Radio
The Country Oldies Show

Birthplace Of Country Music Alliance - Lists radio stations on the internet that play old-time country music

WorldWideBluegrass.com - Streaming bluegrass music 24/7 for free

Publications/Magazines

Country Musical Trails Less Traveled
Published bi-monthly for persons who have an interest in preserving country music.
Stories, record reviews and much more!
Contact:
Jay Taylor
Box 143
Marshville, NC 28103-0143
USA
email: cmtlt@aol.com

The Old-Time Herald - Quarterly
A magazine dedicated to Old-Time Music
Contact:
The Old-Time Hearld
Box 51812
Durham, NC 27717
USA
Phone and Fax: 919-402-8295
e-mail: oth@mindspring.com

Bluegrass Unlimited
Monthly - PO Box 771 Warrenton, VA 20188 USA

Country Music & Dance In Scotland & Ireland
119 Cambusdoon Place, Kilwinning, Ayrshire. KA13 6SW

Country Music People
Monthly - Music Farm Ltd. 1 3 Love Lane, London, SE18 6QT

Fiddler Magazine
Quarterly - Box 101, North Sydney, NS B2A 3M1 Canada

Journal Of Country Music
3 Issues Yearly - C.M.F. 222 Fifth Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37203 USA

Maverick
Monthly - AAG Publishing. 24 Bray Gardens, Maidstone, Kent ME15 9TR

Recommended Reading
Bristol Sessions
The big band in Country Music Edited by Charles K Wolfe And Ted Olson. McFarland ISBN 0-7864-419456

British Country Music Association Year Book
Lists and Addresses - 100 pages - Jim Marshall, 3 Chester Terrace, Brighton BN1 6GB Sussex.

Country Music Records
A Discography 1921-42. Tony Russell. Oxford University Press. (Thirty Years in the making)

Country Music Sources
A Biblio-Discography Of Traditionally Recorded Traditional Music, Meade, Spottswood & Meade. Univ Of N Carolina

A Discography Of Country & Western Records 1942-60
Hillbilly Researcher Publication. Three volumes available. 20 Silkstream Rd., Burnt Oak, Edgeware, Middx. HA 8 ODA

Classic Country - Legends Of Country Music by Charles K. Wolfe Routledge Press
Profiles of 50 Country Music Legends and dozens of rare photographs. 318 pages

Country Music - A bibliographical Dictionary by Richard Carlin, Published by Routledge
A dictionary of Country Music Artists. Portions of this book from Big Book Of Country Music (Penguin) 1995, 497 pages

Country Music On 78s by Robert R. Olson
Various old time artist label lists. Brunswick 100 - 600 series, Columbia 15000 series, Decca 5000 series etc., 92 pages.

Country Music USA
The definitive history of American Country Music by Bill Malone.

Cowboys And The Wild West
An A - Z guide from the Chisholm Trail to the Silver Screen by Don Cusic.

Definitive Country
The ultimate Encyclopedia Of Country Music & Performers. Barry McLoud. A Perigree Book

Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia Of Country Music
320 pages in information and rare photographs. Consultant Bob Allen, General editor Tony Byworth. Flame Tree Publishing.

Discography Of Western Swing
And Hot String Bands 1928  1942
C. Ginnell & K. Coffey, Greenwood Press

Encyclopedia Of Country Music
Compiled by the staff of the Country Music Hall Of Fame

Exploring Roots Music
Twenty Years Of JEMF Quarterly. Edited by Nolan Porterfield Scarecrow Press Inc PO Box 317 Oxford, OX2 9RU

Hillbilly Record Label Guide 78 rpm
Published by Hillbilly Researcher. 20 Silkstream Rd., Burnt Oak, Edgware, Middx. HA 8 ODA

It All Happened In Renfro Valley
By Pete Stamper, University Press Of Kentucky

Louisiana Hayride
Radio & Roots Music Along The Red River
Tracy EW Laird. Oxford University Press

Mountains Of Music
West Virginia Traditional Music From Goldenseal Edited By John Lilly (University Of Illinois Press)

Old Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes
Three regions of Kentucky Old Time Fiddling. With CD. University Of Kentucky Press By Jeff Todd Titon.

Pickers, Slickers, Cheatin' Hearts & Superstars
Country - The Music And The Musicians
Illustrated history of Country Music
containing over 4,000 photos.
Paul Kingsbury editor.
Abbeville Press Inc. New York 1988. 595 pages.

Singing In The Saddle
A History of the Singing Cowboy by Douglas B. Green.
Country Music Foundation (Vanderbilt University)

Virginia's Blues Country & Gospel Records 1902 - 1943
An Annotated Discography by Kip Lornell. University Of Kentucky Press.

Voices Of The Country by Michael Streissguth
Interviews with Classic Country Performers Routledge Press 216 pages.

Reference
All Music Guide - find any artist, song or album.

Classic Country Music Lyrics

W&H Main Yards Railroad Songs List

Old-Time Music

Old-Time Music On The Web