Great home made music by a scholar, collector, real folk elder

A good place to start to learn to banjar!

Thje works of a great master essential

Essential traditional music at a great price

If you need one book on the banjo in all of US culture, this is the book. This is the book.

Keep Picking Uncle Dave

Even though it is with his 1960-1970s electric band, this captures Jimmie Rodgers music and style better than anything else yet is original not simply imitation

The real tom Ashely of the 1920s and 1930s, haunting, fun, sharp young

Traditional music performed by a child of the tradition dont forget Hedy!!!

The masterwork of a great artist, banjoist, guitarist, harmonica wizard, above all one of the great traditional singers

Here is the basic repertoire OF OLD Time music. This book reflects OTM as it was in the 1960s when it came out. It is much heavier on singable songs and might lighter on dance tunes than the mix is in contemporary OTM.

Any encyclopedia of African American and white southern banjo styles that mascarades as a great CD to listen to his singing and picking. Necessary for anyone who loves banjo or old time music

A foundation of good old time blues and cowboy music from the source by a great Artist and a greater thinker.

Here is the film of the dances and dancers described in Mike's book Dancing Feet. See my review

A whole lot of really great music on banjo, fiddle, guitar, voice and most importantly the heart and mind of a great man of music. The only danger is that this music is SOOOOOO good, that if you play or sing music, you may want to stop making noise yourself and just listen to Hobart! Read my review

Along with Dunaway's other work, she demolishes the myth that Appalachian slavery was any better for Black folk than slavery in the Deep South or that racism and violence against Black folk before and after the Civil War was less prevelant.