(some of the) Stuff we like
traditional Music Resources & Blogs
Slippery Hill (well-organized database of streamable oldtime tunes and info)
Cameron DeWhitt's “Get Up in the Cool” (great podcast consisting of interviews and tunes with oldtime musicians)
Dale Brubaker's Old-time Zone (internet-streamed oldtime music show from Ellensburg Community Radio)
The Old Time Herald Archive (coming one day…)
Old Time Party (no longer updated due to Jon Bekoff’s passing in 2015, but a great archive of blog writings on oldtime musicians)
Carson's Journal of Music (no longer updated due to Ciaran Carson’s passing in 2019, but a wonderful collection of writings on Irish music that beautifully unpack insights and truths that can be applied to any traditional music scene)
Oldies but Goodies
Fiddler Magazine (sadly defunct)
Oldtime Central (seemingly defunct)
Paul Brown’s Across the Blue Ridge (internet-streamed oldtime music show from 88.5 WFDD) (also no longer on the air)
old-time music labels
Tiki Parlour Recordings (LA-based music label headed by David Bragger, which puts out videos & sound recordings of today’s best old-time music… and also 3 of our records!)
instruments, retailers, Whiskey makers
Menzies Instruments (gourd / goat-skin fiddles & banjos made in Jamaica - Jason plays one!)
Huthmaker Violin Shop (Suwanee/ATL)
Scott Baxendale Guitar Shop (Athens)
ASW Distillery (great people making whiskey out of north Georgia — we endorse it!)
people and recordings
Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh (his duet recordings with mick o’brien especially influential)
Andrew Reissiger (he engineered, mixed, and mastered our fourth CD)
Plus all these and more, find ‘em wherever you can… Rhys Jones, Andrew FitzGibbon, Nokosee Fields, Mitch Depew, Rayna Gellert, Adam Hurt, Joe Decosimo