Artist Profiles
Wilf Carter
Canadian Country Sisters
Cowgals Home On The Web
Don Messer And His Islanders
Eddy Arnold
Hank Snow
Kitty Wells
Tommy Hunter
Leon McAuliffe
The Carter Family
Roy Rogers
Johnny Horton - Classic Country Music Show
Featuring a Tribute to Family Legend, Johnny Horton
Associations
CCMA
Canadian Country Music Association
Hank Snow Country Music Centre
Country Music History
The Grand Ole Opry
Ten Things You Didn't Know About The Origins Of Country Music
Traditional Country Hall Of Fame - devoted to returning country music back to its roots
Listen To The WLS National Barn
Dance Broadcast!
CountryForums.com - Discussion forum for country western music where fans and artists can talk all things country.
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
ECards
Country Music Day Ecards from 123greetings.com
For Musicians
Cowpie Bunkhouse - Guitar Player Chord Swap
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.
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, 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.
W&H Main Yards Railroad Songs List
Old-Time Music
Old-Time Music On The Web
Old-Time Country Music Links
Old-Time Country Music Lovers
- A place to talk and remember old-time country music
and more.
Canadian Country Music News -
Monthly
reports on the country music happenings in all parts of
Canada.