Music

Ahrens, Frank. 2002. “Music at Bill’s Pickin Parlor in the South Carolina Midlands.” In American Musical Traditions. Vol. 3, British Isles Music, eds. J. Titon and B. Carlin, 138-141. New York: Schirmer Reference.
Ahrens, Pat. 2001. “Fiddlin’ Charlie Bowman: A 1920s East Tennessee Champion” [1889-1962; played with the Hill Billies -- 1925 origin of the word “hillbilly” acc. to Bill Malone]. Bluegrass Unlimited 36 (December): 32-35.






Allen, Danny W. 2002. “Postcards and the Promotion of Early Country Music Artists.” In Country Music Annual 2002, eds. C. Wolfe and J. Akenson, 117-129. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.
Allen, Lucy. 1998. “Alexander County First Sunday Singing Convention” [N.C.; begun in 1946]. North Carolina Folklore Journal 45 (Summer-Fall): 122-123.

Alvey, R. Gerald. 2003 [1984]. Dulcimer Maker: The Craft of Homer Ledford [master craftsman, musician, and folk artist]. Reprint, with an introduction by Ron Pen. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 197 pp.
Anderson-Green, Paula Hathaway. 2002. A Hot Bed of Musicians: Traditional Music in the Upper New River Valley-Whitetop Region [ Blue Ridge Va./N.C.]. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 264 pp.
Arnold, Byron, comp. 2004. An Alabama Songbook: Ballads, Folksongs, and Spirituals [258 songs, words and music transcribed, collected in the mid-1940s]. Collected by Byron Arnold [1901-1971], edited with an introduction by Robert W. Halli, Jr. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 299 pp.

Arrants, Julia. 2001. “In Search of the Frog’s Raccoon” [Appalachian variants of “A Frog Went A-Courtin’”]. North Carolina Folklore Journal 48 (Spring/Summer-Fall/Winter): 68-79.

Bailey, Chip. 2002. “The Albert Hash Memorial Band: Preserving a Sense of Place at Mt. Rogers School” [Grayson Co., Va.; Carter Fold, Hiltons, Va.]. Old-Time Herald Online 8, no. 2 (Winter): 13 para. Online at http://www.oldtimeherald.org/pages/eissues.htm.

Battiata, Mary. 2001. “A High and Lonesome Sound” [Hazel Dickens, biographical profile; NEA National Heritage Fellowship award winner]. Washington Post Magazine 24 June, p. W08+.

Bealle, John. 1997. Public Worship, Private Faith: Sacred Harp and American Folksong. Athens: University of Georgia Press. 308 pp.

Bealle, John. 2002. “New Strings on the ‘Old Harp’: The 1991 Revision of The Sacred Harp.” In American Musical Traditions. Vol. 3, British Isles Music, eds. J. Titon and B. Carlin, 71-82. New York: Schirmer Reference.

Beisswenger, Drew. 2002. Fiddling Way Out Yonder: The Life and Music of Melvin Wine [1909-2003; Braxton Co., W.Va. old-time fiddler]. American Made Music Series. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. 230 pp.

Beisswenger, Drew. 2003. “Melvin Wine—Playing for the Boatman” [ W.Va. fiddler; 1909-2003]. Old-Time Herald Online 9, no. 1 (Fall). Online at http://www.oldtimeherald.org/archive/back_issues/volume-9/9-1/playing-for-boatman.html.

Bernhardt, Jack. 2003. “Dedicated to the Memory of Tommy Thompson (1937-2003)” [banjoist, Red Clay Ramblers]. North Carolina Folklore Journal 50, nos. 1-2 (Spring/Summer - Fall/Winter): 1-7.

Bessman, Jim. 2002. “Allison Krauss: Mountain Mama.” Journal of Country Music 22 (no. 1): 10-16.
Black, Bob. 2002. “Come Hither to Go Yonder: Playing Bluegrass with Bill Monroe. Part 1.” Bluegrass Unlimited 36 (April): 60-65.

Bledsoe, Tommy. 1999. “Critters in Cyberspace: Old-Time Music on the Internet.” Old-Time Herald Online 6, no. 8 (Summer). http://www.oldtimeherald.org/pages/eissues.htm.

Boosinger, Laura. 2001. “Luke Smathers, Mountain Swing Musician: A Biography” [Haywood Co. fiddler; d. 1997]. In May We All Remember Well: A Journal of the History & Cultures of Western North Carolina, Vol. 2, ed. R. S. Brunk, 214-239. Asheville, N.C.: Robert S. Brunk Auction Services, Inc.
Boye, Gary R. 2002. Review essay of Can’t You Hear Me Callin’: The Life of Bill Monroe, by Richard D. Smith ( Boston: Little, Brown, 2000). Appalachian Journal 29 (Spring): 377-383.

Bull, Debby. 2000. Hillbilly Hollywood: The Origins of Country & Western Style, Featuring the Vintage Costume Collection of Marty Stuart [pictorial; 1930s-50s]. New York: Rizzoli. 105 pp.
Burrell, Brett. 2002. “Breakin’ Down Down Yonder in the Wildwood Flowers: An Interview with Brett Burrell” [buck dancing; Tenn.]. By Kasie Hicks. Foxfire Magazine 36 (Fall/Winter): 112-118.

Burton , Tom, and Ambrose Manning. 1997. “A Checklist of Child Ballad Variants Found in Southern Appalachia” [spreadsheets; bibliography]. Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 58 (no.3): 102-116.

Burton, Tom. 1997. “The Lion’s Share: Scottish Ballads in Southern Appalachia” [English, Scottish, and variants]. Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 58 (no.3): 95-101.

Cahan, Andy. 2002. “Adam Manly Reece: An Early Banjo Player of Grayson County, Virginia.” In American Musical Traditions. Vol. 3, British Isles Music, eds. J. Titon and B. Carlin, 87-93. New York: Schirmer Reference.

Campbell, Gavin James. 1997. “‘Old Can Be Used Instead of New’: Shape-Note Singing and the Crisis of Modernity in the New South, 1880-1920.” Journal of American Folklore 110 (Spring): 169-188.

Campbell, Gavin James. 2004. “The Georgia Old-Time Fiddling Contest” [1914, Atlanta]. Chap. 3 in Music & the Making of a New South, 100-142. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Cantwell, Robert. 2003 [1984]. Bluegrass Breakdown: The Making of the Old Southern Sound. Reprint, with a new preface. Music in American Life. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 308 pp.

Cardwell, Nancy. 2001. “I’m on My Way to the Old Home: The Bill Monroe Bluegrass Music Foundation” [ Rosine, Ky., restoration]. Bluegrass Unlimited 36 (November): 22-26.

Carlin, Bob. 2004. “Alan Lomax: The 1937 Kentucky Field Recordings” [228 12-inch disc recordings of ballads, fiddle and banjo tunes]. Bluegrass Unlimited 38 (May): 68-72.

Carlin, Richard, and Bob Carlin. 2000. Southern Exposure: The Story of Southern Music in Pictures and Words [1850s to WWII]. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications. 160 pp.

Carney, George O. 1996. “Western North Carolina: Culture Hearth of Bluegrass Music.” Journal of Cultural Geography 16 (Fall/Winter): 65-87.

Carr, Patrick. 2002. “Johnny Cash: The Spirit Is Willing” [interview]. Journal of Country Music 22 (no. 3): 16-23.

Carter, Sandy. 2000. “Wild and Blue: The Politics of Country Music” [broad survey]. Southern Exposure 28 (Spring/Summer): 54-57.

Cash, Johnny, and Patrick Carr. 1997. Cash [his second autobiography]. San Francisco: Harper San Francisco. 310 pp.

Cauthen, Joyce H. 2001 [1989]. With Fiddle and Well-Rosined Bow: A History of Old-Time Fiddling in Alabama. Reprint. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 282 pp.
Cauthen, Joyce. 2002. “‘A Peculiar Wiggling of the Bow’: Old-Time Fiddling in Alabama.” In American Musical Traditions. Vol. 3, British Isles Music, eds. J. Titon and B. Carlin, 115-121. New York: Schirmer Reference.

Chandler, Barbara. 2004. “Why I Believe That Lloyd Chandler Wrote “Conversation with Death,” also Known as “O Death” [Madison Co., N.C.; c. 1916]. Journal of Folklore Research 41 (May-December): 127-132.

Chandler, Lloyd. 2004. “Conversation with Death” [song lyrics, c. 1916; popularly titled “O Death”]. Journal of Folklore Research 41 (May-December): 125-126.

Cogswell, Robert G. 2001. “Bob Douglas: In Memoriam” [1900-2001; renowned Chattanooga-area fiddler]. Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 60 (no. 1): 32-33.

Cohen, John. 1995. "Naming the High Lonesome Sound." Bluegrass Unlimited 30 (December): 42-44.
Conway, Cecelia. 1995. African Banjo Echoes in Appalachia: A Study of Folk Traditions. Publications of the American Folkore Society. New Series. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 394 pp.
Cordle, Joel. 2004. “The Myers Sisters—Music from Apple Pie Ridge” [N.C., Ga.; ages 87, 84, 79]. Old-Time Herald 9, no. 4 (Summer). Online at http://www.oldtimeherald.org/archive/back_issues/.
Craver, Mike. 2003. “Tommy Thompson: 1937-2003” [banjo player, singer, songwriter, and co-founder of the Red Clay Ramblers]. Sing Out! 47 (Summer): 222-223.
Cusic, Don. 2002. “Politics and Country Music, 1963-1974” [discography by year]. In Country Music Annual 2002, eds. C. Wolfe and J. Akenson, 161-185. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.
Cutting, Jennifer. 2004. “‘Goodness Gracious, It’s Good!’: The Martha White Flour
Show Collection” [tapes of two 1968 shows featuring Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, Johnny Cash and the Carter Family, and Carl Perkins]. Folklife Center News (Library of Congress) 26, no. 4 (Fall): 3-4, cover photo. Online at http://www.loc.gov/folklife/news/news-text-fall2004.html.
Dalsemer, Robert G. 2001 [1982]. West Virginia Square Dances [Internet Edition; audiolinks]. Online at http://www.cdss.org/publications/wvasquares/index.html. Originally published, New York: Country Dance & Song Society of America, 85 pp.
Daniel, Harlan. 1999. “78 RPM Recordings of Sacred Harp Songs: Preliminary Notes Contributing Towards a Numerical Check List” [1922-1934]. Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 59 (no. 1): 30-39.
Daniel, Harlan. 1999. “From Shape Notes to Bank Notes: Milestones in the Evolution of White Gospel Music” [1640-1976]. Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 59 (no. 1): 26-29.
Daniel, Harlan. 1999. “Peripheral American Hymnody: An Overview” [early Christian education, songs, hymnals]. Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 59 (no. 1): 9-25.
Daniel, Wayne W. 1997. “The Legacy of A. P. Carter: A Famous Singer, Arranger, and Song Preserver Who Might Have Been a Famous Fiddler.” Devil’s Box 31 (Summer): 24-28.
Daniel, Wayne W. 1999. “Fiddles, Fiddlers, and Fiddling in American Short Fiction.” Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 59 (no. 2): 61-68.
Daniel, Wayne W. 2001 [1990]. Pickin’ on Peachtree: A History of Country Music in Atlanta, Georgia. Music in American Life. Reprint. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 295 pp.
Daniel, Wayne W. 2001. “If You Think You’re ‘Drifting Too Far from the Shore,’ Maybe You should ‘Kneel at the Cross’: Such Might Have Been the Advice of Gospel Music Composer Charles E. Moody” [written 1923; Ga.; 1891-1977; discography, pp. 22-24]. Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 60 (no. 1): 14-24.
Daniel, Wayne W. 2002. “Times Ain’t Like They Used to Be: Kentucky Pioneer Country Musician Curley Collins Remembered” [1915-1986; b. Catlettsburg, Ky.]. Bluegrass Unlimited 37 (August): 66-72.
Davidson, Eric, and Jane Rigg. 2002. “Uncle Wade: A Memorial to Uncle Wade Ward, Old-Time Virginia Banjo Picker” [1892-1971]. In American Musical Traditions. Vol. 3, British Isles Music, eds. J. Titon and B. Carlin, 94-100. New York: Schirmer Reference.
Davis, Adda Leah. 2003. “Dr. Ralph Stanley and A Journey of Faith” [interview; Primitive Baptist Church]. Appalachian Journal 30 (Winter-Spring): 204-211.
Dawidoff, Nicholas. 1997. The Country of Country Music: A Journey to the Roots of American Music. New York: Pantheon Books. 371 pp. (Paperback reprint, New York: Vintage Books, 1998)
Dickens, Hazel. 2004. “‘West Virginia, My Home’: A Visit With Hazel Dickens” [songwriter, performer; b. 1935, Mercer Co.]. Interview by John Lilly. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 30 (Summer): 32-37.
Dinwiddie, Joseph. 1998. “Where Have All the Fiddles Gone?” [defense of regional music and plea for Berea College’s music department to broaden its exclusively classical program of instruction]. Appalachian Heritage 26 (Fall): 6-14.
Dinwiddie, Joseph. 1999. “It Don’t Mean a Thang If It Ain’t Got That Twang: Banjo and Fiddle Dance Music of Southern Appalachia” [tradition]. Appalachian Heritage 27 (Summer): 12-16.
Discovering Appalachian Music. 1995. Special issue. Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 12 (Summer): 1-44.
Donleavy, Kevin. 2004. Strings of Life: Conversations with Old-Time Musicians from Virginia and North Carolina. Blacksburg, Va.: Pocahontas Press. 347 pp.
Douglas, John. 2002. “Joltin’ Jim McCoy: Morgan County’s Country Music Troubadour [b. 1929; Berkeley Springs]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 28 (Spring): 54-59.
Eaker, Susan A., and Geoff Eaker. 2002. “A Banjo on Her Knee: Appalachian Women and America’s First Instrument: Part Two” [19 th-century]. Old-Time Herald Online 8, no. 3 (Spring): 2 para. Online at http://www.oldtimeherald.org/pages/eissues.htm.
Eaker, Susan A., and Geoff Eaker. 2002. “A Banjo on Her Knee: Appalachian Women and America’s First Instrument: Part One” [19 th-century]. Old-Time Herald Online 8, no. 2 (Winter): 27 para. Online at http://www.oldtimeherald.org/pages/eissues.htm.
Ellersten, Peter. 2002. “‘The untaught melody of grateful hearts’: Southern Appalachian Folk Hymnody in Illinois, 1800-1850.” Journal of Illinois History 5 (Winter): 258-282.
Escott, Colin. 2001. “Water from an Ancient Well” [review essay of recording “The Carter Family: In the Shadow of Clinch Mountain” (Bear Family Records, BCD 15865. 12 CDs with 120-page book]. Journal of Country Music 22 (no. 1): 33-35.
Escott, Colin. 2003. Lost Highway: The True Story of Country Music [history]. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. 192 pp. Companion to the BBC television series. Originally published, London: BBC Books, 2003.
Ewing, Tom, ed. 2000. The Bill Monroe Reader [d. 1996; selected articles]. Music in American Life series. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 301 pp.
Ewing, Tom. 1998. “What Did He Say? Bill Monroe on Bluegrass” [highlights his musical convictions]. Bluegrass Unlimited 33 (September): 62-65.
Fairchild, Raymond. 1995. "Raymond Fairchild." Interview by Britt Long. Appalachian Journal 22 (Summer): 392-406.
Farmelo, Allen. 2001. “Another History of Bluegrass: The Segregation of Popular Music in the United States, 1820-1900.” Popular Music and Society 25 (Spring/Summer): 179-203.
Feather, Carl E. 2003. “‘We Like This Old Music’: Wetzel County’s Hillbilly Haven” [bluegrass, country music park]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 29 (Summer): 66-69.
Feather, Carl E. 2003. “Country Store Opry: Grant County’s Music Capitol” [since 1967; Pansy, W.Va.]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 29 (Summer): 56-61, with appended profile of 91-year-old comedienne Elsie Whitmer, 62-65.
Feather, Carl E. 2004. “‘Seventh Heaven’: Saturday Night at the Sagebrush Round-up” [country music hall, Marion Co.]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 30 (Winter): 32-41. Sidebar on “Bill Murray,” Sagebrush’s oldest musician [b. 1915], 38-39.
Feather, Carl E. 2004. “‘Sounds of Home’: Songwriter Dorsey Wiseman” [gospel musician; Randolph Co.; b. 1937]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 30 (Winter): 48-53.
Feather, Carl E. 2004. “Little John Graham and Cherokee Sue: A Radio Love Story” [1930s-40s; radio performers; WMMN, Fairmont]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 30 (Winter): 42-47.
Filene, Benjamin. 2000. Romancing the Folk: Public Memory and American Roots Music [folk music; ballads]. Cultural Studies of the United States series. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 325 pp.
Fleischhauer, Carl. 2001. Bluegrass Odyssey: A Documentary in Pictures and Words, 1966-1986. Music in American Life. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 189 pp.
Fletcher, Karen L. 1997. “16 Years of Foot-Stompin’ — The FOOTMAD Story” [Friends of Old-Time Music and Dance]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 23 (Spring): 31.
Fluharty, Twila Dawn. 2004. The Dulcimer Man: The Russell Fluharty Story [1906-1989; autobiographical writings; Mannington, W.Va.]. Parsons, W.Va.: McClain Printing Company. 181 pp.
Friskics-Warren, Bill. 2000. “Grand Ole Opry: The Next Generation.” Journal of Country Music 21 (no. 2): 14-21.
Fussell, Fred C. 2003. Blue Ridge Music Trails: Finding a Place in the Circle [history; guidebook]. Photographs by Cedric N. Chatterley. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 255 pp.
Garrison, Theodore. 2002 [1944]. “Forty-Five Folk Songs Collected from Searcy County” [Ark.]. Edited by W. K. McNeil, Director, Ozark Folk Center. Mid-America Folklore 30 nos. 1 and 2: 1-215.
Garst, John. 2002. “‘Man of Constant Sorrow’: Antecedents and Tradition.” In Country Music Annual 2002, eds. C. Wolfe and J. Akenson, 26-53. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.
Gartner, Paul. 1997. “Elmer Bird: The Banjo Man from Turkey Creek” [b.1920; Vandalia Award winner]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 23 (Summer): 45-52.
Gartner, Paul. 1997. “The Kessinger Family” [Clark Kessinger, fiddler; 1896-1975]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 23 (Fall): 20-23, 26-27.
Gartner, Paul. 2000. “Dr. Gainer: Folk Festival Founder” [Patrick Gainer, 1904-1981; West Virginia State Folk Festival]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 26 (Summer): 58-59.
Gates, David. 2001. “Constant Sorrow: Ralph Stanley’s Fifty Years on the Road” [bluegrass banjo great]. New Yorker, 20 August, 88-94.
Gillespie, Gail. 2001. “Musical Affairs of the Heart: Part Two: Banjo Stories.” Old-Time Herald Online 8, no. 1 (Fall): 65 para. http://www.oldtimeherald.org/pages/8-1/heart.htm.
Goff, James R., Jr. 2002. Close Harmony: A History of Southern Gospel. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 394 pp.
Goldsmith, Thomas, ed. 2004. The Bluegrass Reader [anthology of 64 essays: Pt. 1: The Big Bang, 1939-59; Pt. 2: The Reseeding of Bluegrass, 1960-79; Pt. 3: Another Roots Revival, 1980-2000]. Music in American Life. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 353 pp.
Gray, Tom. 1999. “Dobro: The Resonator Guitar That Wouldn’t Die” [history from 1920s to present]. Bluegrass Unlimited 33 (January): 50-55.
Green, Stephen. 1995. "The Berea Tune Lists." Tennessee Folkore Society Bulletin 57 (no.2): 39-67.
Gunderson, Linda. 2000. “Footnotin’ with Ira: A Fiddler’s Dancer” [clog dancing; Ira Bernstein]. Old-Time Herald Online 7, no. 3 (Spring). Online at http://www.oldtimeherald.org/pages/eissues.htm.
Gura, Philip F. 1999/2000. “Roots and Branches: Forty Years of the New Lost City Ramblers, Part 1.” Old-Time Herald Online 7, no. 2 (Winter). http://www.oldtimeherald.org/pages/eissues.htm.
Gura, Philip F. 2000. “Roots and Branches: Forty Years of the New Lost City Ramblers, Part 2.” Old-Time Herald Online 7, no. 3 (Spring). http://www.oldtimeherald.org/pages/eissues.htm.
Hamilton, Frank. 2002. “The Volo Bogtrotters: Old-Time Feeling in the 21 st-Century.” Old-Time Herald Online 8, no. 4 (Summer). Online at http://www.oldtimeherald.org/pages/eissues.htm.
Hardwig, Bill. 2001. “Cocks, Balls, Bats, and Banjos: Masculinity and Competition in the Bluegrass Music of Bill Monroe.” Southern Quarterly 39 (Summer): 35-48.
Harkins, Anthony. 1996. "The Significance of 'Hillbilly' in Early Country Music, 1924-1945." Journal of Appalachian Studies 2 (Fall): 311-322.
Harlan Daniel Special Issue [1932-1998; “Tributes and Memories” by Alice Daniel Pritchard, W. K. McNeil, and Judith McCulloh, pp. 2-4]. 1999. Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 59 (no. 1): 1-47.
Harlow, Ilana. 2004. “First Henry Reed Award Goes to Young Ballad Singer” [sixteen-year-old Elizabeth LaPrelle from Rural Retreat, Va.; the Henry Reed Fund was established to benefit folk artists and to honor master Appalachian fiddler Henry Reed]. Folklife Center News (Library of Congress) 26, no. 3 (Summer): 9. Online at http://www.loc.gov/folklife/news/news-text-summer2004.html.
Harrison, Bill. 1996. "A History of the Tennessee Valley Old Time Fiddlers Convention." [Limestone County, Ala.] Devil's Box 30 (Winter): 5-10.
Harvey, Steven. 2000. Bound for Shady Grove [reflective essays on mountain music, banjos, fiddles]. Athens: University of Georgia Press. 157 pp.
Hatchett, Marion J. 2003. A Companion to The New Harp of Columbia [shape note singing reference]. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 476 pp.
Hauslohner, A. W. 1997. “The Harold Hensley Story” [1922-1988; fiddler; b. Whitetop, Va.; Hollywood career]. Devil’s Box 31 (Spring): 31-35.
Henry, Murphy H. 2001. “Come Prepared to Stay. Bring Fiddle: The Story of Sally Ann Forrester, the Original Bluegrass Girl” [1943-1946; the “first woman in bluegrass”]. In Country Music Annual 2001, eds. C. Wolfe and J. Akenson, 92-120. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.
Henry Reed Fund Established at the Library of Congress [W.Va. fiddler, 1884-1968]. 2001. Folklife Center News (Library of Congress) 23, no. 1 (Winter): 13.
Heyer, Bob. 1998. “Ivydale: The Morris Family Old-Time Music Festivals” [Clay Co.]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 24 (Summer): 56-64.
Heyer, Bob. 2000. “‘Let’s Keep It Traditional” [W.Va.’s State Folk Festival, Glenville]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 26 (Summer): 50-57.
Holliday, Taylor. 2004. “Down Country Music’s Back Roads” [195-mile driving tour, Va. and Ky. landmarks; Route 23]. New York Times, 6 August, 1(F).
Hollifield, Adrienne. 1995. "Family Tradition, Orality, and Cultural Intervention in Sodom Laurel Ballad Singing." North Carolina Folklore Journal 42 (Winter-Spring): 1-34, cover photo.
Howard, Rachel, et al., comp. 1996. West Virginia Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture, Acquired Through 1990. LC Folk Archive Finding Aid, no. 20. 25 pp. Washington: Library of Congress. (Superintendent of Documents No. LC 39.13/2: 20)
Howell, Roger. 1994. "Woodrow Boone: Profile of a Madison County Fiddler." Devil's Box 28 (3-12): 3-12.
Howell, Roger. 1997. “The Tradition Continues: A Short History of Mountain Music in Madison County, North Carolina.” Devil’s Box 31 (Spring): 3-9.
Huber, Patrick J. 2003. “‘Cain’t Make a Living at a Cotton Mill’: The Life and Hillbilly Songs of Dave McCarn” [1905-1964; 1930s labor songs]. North Carolina Historical Review 80 (July): 297-333.
Hudson, Michael. 2003. “‘Which Side Are You On?’: The Biography of a Protest Song” [Florence Reece’s 1931 union anthem; Harlan Co., Ky.]. Southern Exposure 31 (Spring): 42-45.
Hudson, Michael. 2003. “Hazel Dickens Inspires a New Generation of Musicians.” Southern Exposure 31 (Spring): 46-47. (An earlier version of this article appeared at www.womensenews.org).
Hughes, Charles. 2002. “Bill C. Malone” [author interview]. Bluegrass Unlimited 37 (November): 50-51.
Hunter, Lacy. 1996. “John Huron: Banjo Maker” [oral history]. Foxfire Magazine 30 (Fall/Winter): 98-106.
Interpretive Plan: Blue Ridge Music Center: Blue Ridge Parkway, North Carolina, Virginia . 1996. Washington, D.C.: National Park Service. 71 pp. (Superintendent of Documents No. I 29.2:B62/4/996)
Irwin, John Rice. 2000. A People and Their Music: The Story Behind the Story of Country Music. Atglen, Pa.: Schiffer. 247 pp.
Jabbour, Alan. 2001. “The Flowering of the Folk Revival.” In American Roots Music, eds. R. Santelli, H. George-Warren, and J. Brown, 56-83. New York: H. N. Abrams.
Jackson, Ken. 2003. “Breakin’ Up Christmas!—The Curriculum, Music, and Community Project in North Carolina.” Old-Time Herald 9, no. 2 (Winter 2003-2004). Online at http://www.oldtimeherald.org/archive/back_issues/.
Jamieson, Stu. 2003. “Rufus Crisp: Banjo Rapper” [1889-1956; Floyd Co., Ky.]. Old-Time Herald 8, no. 8 (Summer). Online at http://www.oldtimeherald.org/archive/back_issues/.
Jamison, Phil. 2001. “‘Barn Dance with Calls’: Old-Time Southern Square-Dance Calls on 78s: 1920s-early 1930s.” Old-Time Herald Online 7, no. 8 (Summer): 36 para. http://www.oldtimeherald.org/pages/7-8/dance.htm.
Jamison, Phil. 2002. “‘Square Dancing’ in Haywood County, North Carolina” [history]. Old-Time Herald Online 8, no. 2 (Winter): 28 para. Online at http://www.oldtimeherald.org/pages/eissues.htm.
Johnson, Kim. 2001. “Vandalia Wives” [support roles of spouses of W.Va.’s award-winning traditional musicians]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 27 (Spring): 61-65.
Johnson, Kim. 2004. “‘Satisfaction in My Heart’: Lester and Linda McCumbers of Calhoun County” [both b. 1921; respected old-time musicians]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 30 (Spring): 18-25.
Jones, Loyal. 1996. "Kinship and Music in Madison County, North Carolina." The Devil's Box 30 (Summer): 37-40.
Jones, Loyal. 1997. “From Medicine Shows to ‘Hee Haw’: Comedy & Country Music.” Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 14 (Spring): 14-17.
Jones, Loyal. 1998. “‘Death Comes in Threes’” [profiles three musician-comedians: Grandpa Jones, Old Joe Clark, and Pappy Taylor — all died February 1998]. Appalachian Heritage 26 (Summer): 23-29.
Jones, Loyal. 2001. “Scott Wiseman of ‘Lulu Belle and Scotty’: A Fairmont State College Graduate.” Traditions: A Journal of West Virginia Folk Culture and Educational Awareness 6: 25-27.
Jones, Loyal. 2001. “Wilse Reynolds -- I’d Just as Well Have a Good Fiddle as Anybody” [profiles a fiddler and his “Stradivarius,” 1972 Whitley Co., Ky.]. Appalachian Heritage 29 (Fall): 10-13.
Jones, Loyal. 2002 [1984]. Minstrel of the Appalachians: The Story of Bascom Lamar Lunsford [biography; folk singer and songs; N.C.]. Music transcribed by John M. Forbes. Reprint. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 249 pp. Originally published, Boone, N.C.: Appalachian Consortium Press.
Jones, Margaret. 1994. Patsy: The Life and Times of Patsy Cline.  New York: HarperCollins. 352 pp.
Joyner, Charles. 1999. “Sweet Music: Tradition, Creativity, and the Appalachian Dulcimer.” In Shared Traditions: Southern History and Folk Culture, by Charles Joyner, 208-227. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
Julian, Norman. 2004. “I Like to Make People Happy: Connie Mantini and His Accordian” [b. 1926; Italian; coal town]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 30 (Fall): 46-51. Sidebar by the author, “Accordian in My Genes,” about the role of this beloved instrument in his “ethnic” upbringing, p. 52-53.
Kingsbury, Paul. 1997. “Once More With Feeling: A Conversation With Dolly Parton.” Journal of Country Music 19 (no. 2): 31-37.
Kistler, Maura. 2002. “‘I Won’t Be Home No More’: The Death of Hank Williams” [Jan. 1, 1953, Oak Hill, W.Va.]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 28 (Winter): 54-63.
Knight, Torie. 2000. “The Fiddling Pheasants of Fairmont” [family musicians]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 26 (Spring): 39-43.
Lange, Jeffrey J. 2004. Smile When You Call Me a Hillbilly: Country Music’s Struggle for Respectability, 1939-1954. Athens: University of Georgia Press. 313 pp.
Lankford, Ronnie D., Jr. 2003. “The Triumph of an Independent Label Called Copper Creek” [bluegrass and old-time music; Roanoke, Va.]. Old-Time Herald 9, no. 1 (Fall). Online at http://www.oldtimeherald.org/archive/back_issues/.
Ledgin, Stephanie P. 2002-2003. “David Holt: The Getting There Is the Fun” [storyteller and musician]. Old-Time Herald Online 8, no. 6 (Winter). Online at http://www.oldtimeherald.org/pages/eissues.htm.
Ledgin, Stephanie P. 2004. Homegrown Music: Discovering Bluegrass [brief history; resources list; selected discography; interviews]. Foreword by Ricky Skaggs. Westport, Conn.: Praeger. 181 pp.
Lee, Michael. 2002. “My Dad, the Banjo Picker” [Ga.; advice on how to get started playing]. Interview by Natasha Lee. Foxfire Magazine 36 (Fall/Winter): 150-159.
Leland, John. 2002. “High on a Hilltop with Music All Around” [Hiltons, Va.; Carter Family Fold]. New York Times, 8 August, 1(F).
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Lewis, George H. 1997. “Lap Dancer or Hillbilly Deluxe? The Cultural Constructions of Modern Country Music.” Journal of Popular Culture 31 (Winter): 163-173.
Lilly, John, ed. 1999. Mountains of Music: West Virginia Traditional Music From Goldenseal [reprints 25 stories from the magazine]. Music in American Life series. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 224 pp.

Lilly, John. 2000. “‘Peace in the Valley’: West Virginia’s Singing Doorkeepers” [“Happy Valley Boys” gospel quartet]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 26 (Fall): 24-29.

Lilly, John. 2002. “Hank’s Lost Charleston Show” [Hank Williams’ last show, New Year’s Eve, 1952; d. Jan. 1, 1953]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 28 (Winter): 64-65.

Lilly, John. 2003. “Melvin Wine: 1909-2003” [W.Va. fiddler]. Sing Out! 47 (Summer): 219-220.
Lilly, John. 2003. “The West Virginia Coon Hunters: On the Trail of a Lost String Band” [1920s-1940s; 1927 Bristol sessions recordings]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 29 (Spring): 56-59.

Lindahl, Carl. 2004. “Thrills and Miracles: Legends of Lloyd Chandler” [1896-1978; advocates for Chandler as the original composer of the song “O Death,” 1916, Madison Co., N.C.; Table 1. Lloyd Chandler’s “Conversation with Death” compared with Dock Boggs/Ralph Stanley’s “O Death” and African versions; Table 2. Versions and Variants of “Conversation with Death,” “O Death,” “Death in the Morning,” etc.; Table 3. Three Versions of “O Death” / “Conversation with Death”]. Journal of Folklore Research 41 (May-December): 133-171, with an Afterword, 173-180, and Responses by Frank Proschan, 267-273, and Stephanie Kane, 274-286.

Livingston, Carolyn. 2003. Charles Faulkner Bryan: His Life and Music [Tenn. composer, teacher]. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 368 pp.

Long, Lucy. 1998. “Appalachian Plucked Dulcimer: Field Recordings in the Archive of Folk Culture.” [holds over 41 collections, earliest 1934]. Folklife Center News (Library of Congress) 20, no. 3 (Summer): 5-7.
Lornell, Kip. 2004. The NPR Curious Listener’s Guide to American Folk Music [many Appalachian contributions; history, biographies, discography]. New York: Berkeley Publishing Group. 233 pp.
Lupton, John. 2002. “Ralph Stanley: ‘Mountain Soul’ Brother to O Brother Phenomenon” [profile; 2000 film]. Sing Out! 46 (Fall): 36-48.

Lynch, Timothy P. 2001. Strike Songs of the Depression. American Made Music Series. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. 170 pp.

Lynn, Loretta, with George Vecsey. 2001 [1976]. Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner’s Daughter. Reprint. New York: De Capo Press. 224 pp. Originally published, New York: Warner Books.

Lynn, Loretta, with Patsi Bale Cox. 2002. Still Woman Enough: A Memoir [sequel to Coal Miner’s Daughter (1976)]. New York: Hyperion. 384 pp.

Lynn, Loretta. 2004. You’re Cookin’ It Country: My Favorite Recipes and Memories [120 recipes]. Nashville, Tenn.: Rutledge Hill Press. 208 pp.

Maeder, John. 2002. “Birthplace of Country Music Alliance’s Celebration for 75 th Anniversary of Historic Bristol Sessions” [July 25-August 5, 1927]. Bluegrass Unlimited 37 (July): 34-39.

Malone, Bill C. 2001. “Keeping It Country: Tradition and Change, 1940 to the Present.” In American Roots Music, eds. R. Santelli, H. George-Warren, and J. Brown, 162-183. New York: H. N. Abrams.
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Malone, Bill C. 2002. “Country Music, Where Art Thou?” [myth of Appalachian origins]. Progressive 66 (August): 36-37.

Malone, Bill C. 2002. Don’t Get above Your Raisin’: Country Music and the Southern Working Class [history; 19 th-century to present]. Music in American Life. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 392 pp.
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Malone, Bill C. 2004. “Music” [history]. In High Mountains Rising: Appalachia in Time and Place, eds. R. Straw and H. Blethen, 114-134. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Malone, Bill C., and David Stricklin. 2003 [1979]. Southern Music / American Music. Revised edition. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 236 pp.

Mathews, Burgin. 2004. “Bluegrass Meltdown: Mountain Music, Rock and Roll, and Family Tradition in the Music of Ralph Lewis and the Sons of Ralph” [Madison Co.]. North Carolina Folklore Journal 51 (Fall-Winter): 35-54.
McCrossan, Francesca McLean. 2000. “Mandolins and Metaphors: Red Rector’s Musical Aesthetics” [b. 1929; Madison Co., N.C.]. In Country Music Annual 2000, eds. C. Wolfe and J. Akenson, 101-111. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.

McDonald, Janice Brown. 1996. "Crown of Bright Glory: The Legendary Carter Stanley." [1925-1966] Bluegrass Unlimited 30 (February): 38-43.

McGee, Marty. 2000. Traditional Musicians of the Central Blue Ridge: Old Time, Early Country, Folk and Bluegrass Label Recording Artists with Discographies [biographical dictionary; N.C., Va.]. Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies, 3. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. 245 pp.

McGhee, Tom. 1997. “Tim Stafford” [profile; guitarist and ETSU professor]. Bluegrass Unlimited 32 (August): 22-24.

McGowan, Thomas. 1998. “Leonard Glenn, 1910-1997" [memorial; banjo and dulcimer maker; N.C. Folk Heritage Award winner]. North Carolina Folklore Journal 45 (Summer-Fall): 93-94.

McGowan, Thomas. 2002. “Betty Smith: Another Singer among Singers and a Writer among Writers” [2001 Brown-Hudson Award winner]. North Carolina Folklore Journal 49 (Spring/Summer): 40-42.

McNeil, W. K. 2000. “In Search of Fiddlin’ Sam Long of the Ozarks” [1876-1931]. In Country Music Annual 2000, eds. C. Wolfe and J. Akenson, 89-100. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.
Meade, Guthrie T., with Richard K. Spottswood, and Douglas S. Meade. 2002. Country Music Sources: A Biblio-Discography of Commercially Recorded Traditional Music. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Southern Folklife Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries in Association with the John Edwards Memorial Forum. 1002 pp.

Meredith, Dianne. 2001. “Migration and Adaptation of Popular Balladry in the US Appalachian Region” [from 17th century]. Scottish Geographical Journal 117 (no. 3): 169-183.

Miller, Kiri, ed. 2002. The Chattahoochee Musical Convention, 1852-2002: A Sacred Harp Historical Sourcebook. Carrollton, Ga.: The Sacred Harp Museum. 359 pp.

Mills, Jim. 2004. “The Story of One Man, Two Banjos, and Why We All Want a Prewar Flathead Five-String Gibson Mastertone Banjo” [Dewitt “Snuffy” Jenkins, b. 1908, N.C.]. Bluegrass Unlimited 39 (November): 26-31.

Milnes, Gerald. 1999. Play of a Fiddle: Traditional Music, Dance, and Folklore in West Virginia. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 211 pp.

Milnes, Gerry, and Jimmy Triplett. 2003. “Remembering Melvin Wine” [1909-2003; W.Va. fiddler]. Special Web edition with profile, photos and MP3s. Old-Time Herald 9, no. 2 (Winter 2003-2004). Online at http://www.oldtimeherald.org/melvinwine/index.html.

Niles, John Jacob. 2000 [1961]. The Ballad Book of John Jacob Niles [1892-1980; 65 folk songs]. Reprint, with new introduction by Ron Pen. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 370 pp. Originally published, Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Olson, Ted. 2000. “‘Your Inner Voice that Comes from God’: Country Singers’ Attitudes toward the Sacred.” In Country Music Annual 2000, eds. C. Wolfe and J. Akenson, 4-21. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.

Ostendorf, Ann. 2004. “Song Catchers, Ballad Makers, and New Social Historians: The Historiography of Appalachian Music” [1890-1950s]. Tennessee Historical Quarterly 63 (Fall): 192-202.
Parsons, Penny. 2004. “Curly Seckler: Bluegrass Pioneer” [singer; mandolin]. Bluegrass Unlimited 38 (June): 38-45.

Parton, Dolly. 1994. Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished  Business. New York: HarperCollins. 338 pp.
Patterson, Beverly Bush. 1995. The Sound of the Dove: Singing in Appalachian Primitive Baptist Churches. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 238 pp.

Patterson, Beverly Bush. 2002. “Ballad Singing in Madison County, North Carolina.” In American Musical Traditions. Vol. 3, British Isles Music, eds. J. Titon and B. Carlin, 66-70. New York: Schirmer Reference.
Patterson, Beverly Bush. 2002. “Primitive Baptist Singing in the Southern Appalachians.” In American Musical Traditions. Vol. 3, British Isles Music, eds. J. Titon and B. Carlin, 57-60. New York: Schirmer Reference.

Patterson, Daniel W. 1998. “Sheila Kay Adams: Seventh-Generation Ballad Singer” [Madison Co., N.C.]. North Carolina Folklore Journal 45 (Summer-Fall): 115-116.

Pecknold, Diane. 2002. “The Selling Sound of Country Music: Class, Culture, and Early Radio Marketing Strategy of the Country Music Association.” In Country Music Annual 2002, eds. C. Wolfe and J. Akenson, 54-81.. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.

Peterson, Richard A. 1997. Creating Country Music: Fabricating Authenticity [1923-1953]. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Piazza, Tom. 1999. True Adventures with the King of Bluegrass [biography of singer and guitarist Jimmy Martin, b. 1927, East Tenn.]. Foreword by Mary Stuart. Nashville: The Country Music Foundation Press & Vanderbilt University Press. 108 pp.

Pilley, Nick. 2002. “Appalachian Clogging in Britain: The Green Grass Legacy.” Old-Time Herald 8 (February-April): 11-14, 33.

Plantenga, Bart. 2004. “The Hillbillies Are Alive with Yodeling” [Jimmie Rodgers and others]. Chapter 8 in Yodel-Ay-Ed-Oooo: The Secret History of Yodeling Around the World, 185-212. New York: Routledge.
Plaster, J. Scott. 1996. "An Enduring Voice: Celtic Influences on the Appalachian Ballad 'Black Jack Davy'." [Child Ballad #200] Journal of Appalachian Studies 2 (Spring): 87-102.

Plaut, Linda, and Lyn Wolz. 1995. “Two Gardeners of Song: Exploiters or Preservers?” In Appalachia and the Politics of Culture, ed. E. C. Fine. Journal of the Appalachian Studies Association 7: 41-49. Johnson City: East Tennessee State University, Center for Appalachian Studies and Services.
Poe, Randy. 2003. “June Carter Cash (1929-2003).” Sing Out! 47 (Fall): 213.

Potorti, David, and Alice Gerrard, eds. 2001. “John Hartford--Reminiscences.” Interviews by David Potorti. Old-Time Herald Online 8, no. 1 (Fall): 29 para. http://www.oldtimeherald.org/pages/8-1/hartford.htm.
Potorti, David. 2002. “Didn’t He Ramble!: Family, Friends and Fellow Musicians Remember Tommy Thompson.” Old-Time Herald Online 8, no. 4 (Summer). Online at http://www.oldtimeherald.org/pages/eissues.htm.

Pruett, David B. 2002. “WPAQ Radio: The Voice of the Blue Ridge Mountains” [Mount Airy, N.C.]. In Country Music Annual 2002, eds. C. Wolfe and J. Akenson, 151-160. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.

Ramella, Richard. 2004. “West Virginia’s Three State Songs” [official songs, composed 1885, 1947, 1962]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 30 (Summer): 18-23. Appended stories: “A State of Music: Songs of Hills and Home,” 24-28, and “When ‘Country Roads’ Began: Genesis of a Mountain Favorite” [John Denver, 1971; W.Va.’s adopted, unofficial state anthem], 29.


Reid, W. Bruce. 2001. “The Stripling Brothers 2000” [sons of Ala. fiddler Charlie Stripling, now in their 80s]. Old-Time Herald Online 7, no. 8 (Summer): 20 para. http://www.oldtimeherald.org/pages/7-8/stripling.htm.
Rice, Harry S. 1997. “Renfro Valley Broadcast Recordings and Selected Scripts, 1937-1941" [lists song titles and musician/group]. Journal of Country Music 19 (no. 2): 24-25.

Rice, Harry S. 1997. “Renfro Valley on the Radio, 1937-1941" [Renfro Valley Barn Dance, Ky., live broadcast]. Journal of Country Music 19 (no. 2): 16-25.

Ritchie, Jean, comp. 1999 [1952, 1964]. Jean Ritchie’s Swapping Song Book [21 songs]. Photographs by George Peckow; foreword by Charles Wolfe. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 85 pp. Formerly published, New York: H. Z. Walck, 1964.

Ritchie, Jean. 1997. Folk Songs of the Southern Appalachians As Sung By Jean Ritchie. Second edition. Forewords by Alan Lomax and Ron Pen, Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 100 pp. Originally published, New York: Oak Publications, 1965.

Roberts, Glenn, Jr. 2003. “Paul Williams: An Unsung Bluegrass Music Legend” [b. 1935; Lonesome Pine Fiddlers]. Bluegrass Unlimited 37 (April): 30-36.

Rosenbaum, Art. 2002. “Down Yonder: Old-Time String Band Music from Georgia” [Gordon Tanner, b. 1916, Gwinnett Co.]. In American Musical Traditions. Vol. 3, British Isles Music, eds. J. Titon and B. Carlin, 108-114. New York: Schirmer Reference.

Roth, Marcus. 2005. “Twists And Twangs: Virginia Plots Its Musical Heritage Along a ‘Crooked Road’” [250-mile musical heritage trail; Southwestern Va.; numerous links, directory, map]. Washington Post, 11 May, 2(C). 21 paras. Online at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/10/AR2005051001336.html.


Rudder, Randy. 2004. “The Last Ride on the Lost Highway” [Hank Williams; New Year’s Eve, 1952; W.Va.]. In CrossRoads: A Southern Culture Annual, ed. Ted Olson, 290-309. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press.

Rumble, John W. 2004. “Heartbreakers and Moneymakers: Tennessee’s Country Music Industry.” In A History of Tennessee Arts: Creating Traditions, Expanding Horizons, eds. C. West and M. Binnicker, 445-461. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.

Rutledge, Mark. 1998. “A Four-Year University Discovers Bluegrass Is A Sound Investment” [East Tennessee State University Bluegrass and Country Music Program]. Bluegrass Unlimited 32 (April): 28-34.
Santelli, Robert, Holly George-Warren, and Jim Brown, eds. 2001. American Roots Music [11 chapters incl. country and folk music; profusely illustrated; “Based on the PBS series and a collaboration between: the Library of Congress, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Smithsonian Institution, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, and Experience Music Project.”]. Foreword by Bonnie Raitt. New York: H. N. Abrams. 232 pp.

Satterlee, Dennis. 2001. “Everett Lilly: Remembering the Foggy Mountain Boy Years [Lilly brothers Everett and Bea began singing in the 1930s]. Bluegrass Unlimited 36 (June): 58-61.

Sawyer, Loretta. 2003. “Homer Ledford” [b. 1927; Ky. instrument maker; see also Dulcimer Maker: The Craft of Homer Ledford, by R. Gerald Alvey (University Press of Kentucky, 1984)]. Bluegrass Unlimited 37 (May): 50-54.

Sawyer, Loretta. 2003. “Homer Ledford” [renowned, master craftsman of musical instruments; b. 1927, Overton Co., Tenn.]. Bluegrass Unlimited 37 (May): 50-54.

Sawyer, Loretta. 2003. “The Renfro Valley Entertainment Center” [Rockcastle Co., Ky.]. Bluegrass Unlimited 37 (June): 52-55.

Scalf, Laurene. 1999. “Nick Stump: Proud Member of the Hillbilly Nation” [Ky. musician and screenwriter; profile]. Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 16 (Summer): 35-38.
Scancarelli, Jim. 2003. “Hatch Show Print” [Nashville; advertising posters, since 1879; www.hatchshowprint.com]. Bluegrass Unlimited 37 (May): 58-60.
Seeger, Mike, Jon Pankake, Kinney Rorrer, and Willis Poyser. 1998. “Dock Boggs: Memories & Appreciations” [Va. banjoist singer; 1898-1971; biography]. Old-Time Herald Online 6, no. 6 (Winter). http://www.oldtimeherald.org/pages/eissues.htm.

Seeger, Mike. 2002. “The Autoharp in Old-Time Southern Music.” In American Musical Traditions. Vol. 3, British Isles Music, eds. J. Titon and B. Carlin, 122-131. New York: Schirmer Reference.
Sheaffer, John C. 1996. "The Thompsonville Strike: An Event and a Ballad." [Jackson and Vinton Counties, Ohio; Marion County, W.Va.] Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 57 (no. 3): 105-123.
Shirk, A. V. 2004. “Close Harmonies: Ann & Phil Case” [old-time Appalachian duets; guitar, banjo, dulcimer]. Old-Time Herald 9, no. 4 (Summer). Online at http://www.oldtimeherald.org/archive/back_issues/.
Smith, Betty. 2002. “Mary Jane Queen: Singer and Musician, John’s Creek, Caney Fork, Jackson County” [2001 Brown-Hudson Award winner]. North Carolina Folklore Journal 49 (Spring/Summer): 34-36.
Smith, Lee. 2001. “At Last, Appalachia Can Share What It’s Always Embraced” [music’s exposure through books and films]. Washington Post, 12 August, 1(G).

Smith, Ralph Lee. 1997. American Dulcimer Traditions. American Folk Music and Folk Musicians, No. 2, Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press. 176 pp.

Smith, Richard D. 2000. Can’t You Hear Me Callin’: The Life of Bill Monroe, Father of Bluegrass [1911-1996]. Boston: Little, Brown. 365 pp.

Smith, Richard D. 2002. “The Bill Monroe Biography: Journalism Assisting Scholarship.” In Country Music Annual 2002, eds. C. Wolfe and J. Akenson, 15-25. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.
Sowards, Leonard. 1998. “The Boys Who Went to Indiana” [1941; account of teen troubadours from Pound, Va., with Kenny Baker as fiddler, playing street corners in mountain towns to finance a spontaneous road trip in a ‘34 Chevy]. Bluegrass Unlimited 33 (September): 28-32.


Spalding, Susan Eike. 1995. “‘You’ve Got to Get the Music in Your Feet:’” In Appalachia and the Politics of Culture, ed. E. C. Fine. Journal of the Appalachian Studies Association 7: 29-40. Johnson City: East Tennessee State University, Center for Appalachian Studies and Services.

Spence, Robert. 2001. “‘He Just Loved the Music’: Traditional Fiddler Red Henline” [1923-1999; Upshur Co.]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 27 (Spring): 44-49.

Spottswood, Dick. 1996. "Bill Monroe: An Appreciation." [1922-1996] Bluegrass Unlimited 31 (November): 16-17.

Spottswood, Dick. 2002. “Alan Lomax, 1915-2002” [esteemed preserver/promoter of traditional music; Library of Congress]. Bluegrass Unlimited 37 (September): 21.

Spurgeon, Alan L., and David Gadberry. 2002. “Mary Jo Davis Henderson: Her Life and Contributions to Ozark Regional Folk Music” [b. 1936; folk songs]. Mid-America Folklore 29 (Summer): 7-12.
Stamler, Paul J. 2002. “Just the Thought of Going Home: Sheila Kay Adams and the Singers of Madison County, N.C.” [profile; Adams served as musical advisor to the film Songcatcher (2001)]. Sing Out! 46 (Summer): 60-72.

Stamper, Pete. 1999. It All Happened in Renfro Valley [Ky.; Renfro Valley Barn Dance]. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 241 pp.

Streissguth, Michael. 2001. “The Could’ve Been Career of Red Kirk” [East Tenn. Singer; 1947-mid 50s]. Journal of Country Music 22 (no. 1): 4-7.

Stubbs, Eddie. 2002. “Beecher ‘Pete’ Kirby, ‘Bashful Brother Oswald’: December 26, 1911-October 17, 2002” [tribute; Tenn. Dobro player]. Bluegrass Unlimited 37 (December): 14-15.

Stubbs, Eddie. 2003. “Jim McReynolds, February 13, 1927—December 31, 2002” [of Jim & Jesse, bluegrass and country music brother duet]. Bluegrass Unlimited 37 (February): 24-25.

Swan, M. L., contr. 2001 [1867]. The New Harp of Columbia [“A facsimile reprint of The New Harp of Columbia: a system of musical notation, with a note for each sound, and a shape for each note; containing a variety of most excellent psalm and hymn tunes, odes and anthems, happily adapted to church service, singing-schools and societies”]. Restored facsimile ed., with an introduction by Dorothy D. Horn, Ron Petersen, and Candra Phillips. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 287 pp.

Swiger, Lynette. 2004. “The Thread That Runs So True: The Russell Fluharty and Patty Looman Connection” [Fluharty, hammered dulcimer player, d. 1989]. Traditions: A Journal of West Virginia Folk Culture and Educational Awareness 9: 54-56.

Tarullo, Hope. 2003. “Doc Watson” [b. 1923, N.C.]. Current Biography 64 (February): 68-74.
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Tenenbaum, Molly, comp. 1998. “Notes from the Judges’ Booth” [reflections on the Appalachian String Band Music Festival, Clifftop, W.Va., from 10 judges]. Old-Time Herald Online 6, no. 3 (Spring). http://www.oldtimeherald.org/pages/eissues.htm.

Thomas, Anne Elise. 2001. “Practicing Tradition: History and Community in an Appalachian Dance Style” [clogging]. Western Folklore 60 (Spring-Summer): 163-181.

Tichi, Cecelia. 1994. High Lonesome: The American Culture of  Country Music. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina  Press. 318 pp. [includes 23 track CD]

Titon, Jeff Todd. 2001. Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes [includes audio CD]. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 245 pp.

Titon, Jeff Todd. 2002. “Bluegrass.” In American Musical Traditions. Vol. 3, British Isles Music, eds. J. Titon and B. Carlin, 132-137. New York: Schirmer Reference.

Titon, Jeff Todd. 2002. “Music of the Old Regular Baptists of Central Appalachia.” In American Musical Traditions. Vol. 3, British Isles Music, eds. J. Titon and B. Carlin, 57-60. New York: Schirmer Reference.
Titon, Jeff. 1998. “20 Essential Recordings” [Appalachian fiddle music]. Old-Time Herald Online 6, no. 6 (Winter). http://www.oldtimeherald.org/pages/eissues.htm.

Tomlinson, Kenneth Y. 1997. “Winds of the Appalachians: Sometimes One Man Can Build a Tradition” [Bill Monroe, 1911-1996, “Father of Bluegrass Music]. American Enterprise 8 (March/April): 50-51.
Tosches, Nick. 1997. “Strange Days: Emmett Miller & Jimmie Rodgers in Asheville” [1925; Emmett Miller, blackface minstrel singer]. Journal of Country Music 19 (no. 2): 26-30.

Townsend, Thomas Carl. 2001. “The Carter Family's Rhythmic Asymmetry” [1927-28]. In Country Music Annual 2001, eds. C. Wolfe and J. Akenson, 161-88. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.
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Tribe, Ivan M. 1999. “‘The Tragic Yellow Tomb’: Topical Ballads of the 1958 Kentucky School Bus Accident” [Prestonburg, Floyd Co.; 27 drowned; discography includes songs by The Stanley Brothers]. Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 59 (no. 3): 122-134.

Turbanic, Bob. 1999. “Giving Bill Monroe’s Music to the Fourth Generation” [Wheeling Park High School, W.Va.]. Bluegrass Unlimited 34 (December): 28-34.

Valle, Alf. 1995. "George Davis: Beyond the Singing Miner." Southern Folklore 52(1): 53-67.
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Ward, Edward. 1997. “B. F. (Frank) Shelton: Old-Time Recording Artist From Corbin, KY” [banjoist and town barber]. Devil’s Box 31 (Summer): 21-22.

Warlick, Thomas. 1998. “From the Cabin on the Hill to the Beverly Hillbillies: Flatt & Scruggs’s Heroic Journey as Chronicled by Columbia & Bear Family” [retrospective CD sets]. Bluegrass Unlimited 32 (March): 42-45.

Watts, Joshua, and Ferman Thornton. 1999. “Mountain Sounds” [Rabun Co., Ga.; student interview with dulcimer maker Thornton]. Foxfire Magazine 33 (Spring/Summer): 62-67.

Welborn, Steven Keith. 1996. "'After All This Is Over We'll Lay Our Hands on You': Music as a Form of Cultural Resistance in Depression-Era Pennsylvania." [coal communities] Pennsylvania History 63 (Winter): 126-131.

Westfall, Bill, and Hazel Westfall. 2001. “Still Singin’: A Visit with Bill and Hazel Westfall” [music festival regulars]. Interview by Bob Whitcomb. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 27 (Summer): 33-39.
Weston, Frank. 2002. “Glenn Neaves of Fries, Virginia” [Grayson Co.; from a 1980 interview]. Old-Time Herald Online 8, no. 5 (Fall). Online at http://www.oldtimeherald.org/pages/eissues.htm.
Whisnant, David E. 1995. "Gone Country: 'High Lonesome' and the Politics of Writing About Country Music." [review essay] Journal of Country Music 17 (no. 2): 62-66.

Williams, Danny. 1997. “Kessingers On Record” [discography; Clark Kessinger family]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 23 (Fall): 24-25.

Williams, Danny. 1999. “‘Clifftop’: Appalachian String Band Music Festival” [Fayette Co.; annual]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 25 (Summer): 64-69.

Williams, Danny. 1999. “Mountain Music Roundup” [annual review of new recordings since 1993; focus this year on singing]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 25 (Winter): 64-68.

Williams, Lisa. 2001. “Lost to the Airwaves: The Most Intriguing Country Acts Seldom Heard” [names provided by Eddie Stubbs and four historians: Charles Wolfe; Nolan Porterfield; Ivan Tribe; and Bob Pinson]. Journal of Country Music 22 (no. 1): 16-23.

Williams, Lisa. 2001. “The Newcomer Twins: The Girls of WWVA” [Wheeling, W.Va.; WWII-era, teenage, blind “Singing Sweathearts”]. Journal of Country Music 22 (no. 1): 24.

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Wilson, Joe. 2002. “Country Music in Tennessee: From Hollow to Honky-Tonk” [Uncle Dave Macon]. In American Musical Traditions. Vol. 3, British Isles Music, eds. J. Titon and B. Carlin, 101-107. New York: Schirmer Reference.

Wolfe, Charles K. 1996. "Kessinger - From the Fiddling Archives. Number 45 in a Series." [W.Va. fiddler Clark Kessinger] The Devil's Box 30 (Summer): 10-20.

Wolfe, Charles K. 1997. The Devil’s Box: Masters of Southern Fiddling [1920s to 1950s, with stories of 12 performers]. Foreword by Mark O’Connor, Nashville: Country Music Foundation Press and Vanderbilt University Press. 232 pp.

Wolfe, Charles K. 1999. A Good-Natured Riot: The Birth of the Grand Ole Opry [1925]. Nashville, Tenn.: Country Music Foundation Press and Vanderbilt University Press. 312 pp.

Wolfe, Charles K. 2000. “Jake and Doc and May: The Carter Family Goes to the End of the World” [1927 Bristol recording sessions]. Bluegrass Unlimited 34 (February): 22-27.

Wolfe, Charles K. 2000. “The Air Castle of the South: 75 Years of WSM” [Nashville radio station and broadcaster of the Grand Ole Opry]. Bluegrass Unlimited 35 (December): 42-48.

Wolfe, Charles K. 2002. “The Bristol Syndrome: Field Recordings of Early Country Music” [tables]. In Country Music Annual 2002, eds. C. Wolfe and J. Akenson, 202-221. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.

Wolfe, Charles K. 2003. “Beecher Kirby (Bashful Brother Oswald): 1911-2002” [Smoky Mountain musician and dobro player]. Sing Out! 47 (Summer): 223.

Wolfe, Charles K. 2004. “‘Old Cumberland Land’: The Musical Legacy of the Upper Cumberland” [Tenn.]. In Rural Life and Culture in the Upper Cumberland, eds. M. Birdwell and W. Dickinson, 274-301. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.

Wolfe, Charles K., and James E. Akenson, eds. 2003. The Women of Country Music: A Reader [13 essays]. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 229 pp.

Wolfe, Charles K., ed. 1997. Folk Songs of Middle Tennessee: The George Boswell Collection [106 songs selected and transcribed]. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 186 pp.

Wolfe, Charles. 1997. “Clark Kessinger: Pure Fiddling” [1896-1975]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 23 (Fall): 10-17.

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