Alan Lomax Archive

Alan Lomax put together one of the most extensive archives on the history of Old Time Music to ever exist. NPR has announced that this archive is going online. Click link below for more information.


http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2012/03/28/148915022/alan-lomaxs-massive-archive-goes-online?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=plus.google.com&utm_medium=social

Plans To Resume Building Banjos

Tentatively speaking, given a certain amount of improvement in strength and mobility, and due to a fairly high volume of inquiries on the subject, I plan to resume taking a limited number of custom orders for banjos. This will be banjos only, and will be limited as well , to: fretless Mountain Banjos, fretless period Gourd Banjos, and fretless Tack Head Banjos.


At this time the plan is to resume taking orders as of April 1, 2015.  Due to continued limited mobility linked to health issues the volume of orders I will be taking will begin in a very limited number and will be subject to change as needed or allowed according to improvement or decline in health.


To those who have already been inquiring concerning this subject, thank you very much for your ongoing support.


Email inquiries may be made as before at : rdmusicmakers@hotmail.com .

Rhythm Spoon Making

Free Music Archive WFMU Radio My Page

http://freemusicarchive.org/member  is my new page on Free Music Archive. You can join up with your own and connect to any genre you like.

Black Twig Pickers - Don't Drink Nothin' But Corn #OLDTIMEMUSIC Dance tune

Free Music Archive: Black Twig Pickers - Don't Drink Nothin' But Corn

How I came to the bowed dulcimer

A Nearly Lost Old Time Music In Tennessee

NPR article on the nearly lost Old Time Music of Tennessee and how it was rescued and preserved.


http://www.npr.org/2014/09/07/346122723/in-tennessee-scenes-from-a-nearly-lost-musical-history?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=plus.google.com&utm_medium=social

Aint Huntin Coon No More

NPR Link Clawhammer Banjo

Here is an NPR link to an article and historic recordings telling some claw hammer banjo history.


http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5293105#

Banjo Tabs at Banjo Tom

Here is a link to an excellent resource for Old Time (and other) banjo tabs. Check it out.


http://banjotom2.org/

A Nice Resource For Civil War Era Music

http://mountaindulcimer.ning.com/group/civil-war-era-music

Jake Book Hiram Hubbard

The Trappers Farewell

Strumelia's Old Time Noter and Drone Tutorials

My friend  Strumelia from the social community Friends of the Mountain Dulcimer also has a Blog Spot site where she gives tutorials,  instruction, and advice on playing the Mountain Dulcimer in the Old Time original Noter and Drone style.


Here is the link to that site. Check Strumelia out if you are interested in learning this style, or just learning the history behind original Appalachian Dulcimer music the way it was before folks started to embellish and modernize it.




  http://dulcimer-noter-drone.blogspot.com/