(some of the) Stuff we like

traditional Music Resources & Blogs

The Old Time Herald

Fiddler Magazine

Oldtime Central

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)

Paul Brown’s Across the Blue Ridge (internet-streamed oldtime music show from 88.5 WFDD)

Slippery Hill (well-organized database of streamable oldtime tunes and info)

Old Time Party (no longer updated due to Jon Bekoff’s passing in 2015, but a great archive of blog writings on oldtime musicians)

Carson's Journal of Music (no longer updated due to Ciaran Carson’s passing in 2019, but a wonderful collection of writings on Irish music that beautifully unpack insights and truths that can be applied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)

old-time music labels

Old-Time Tiki Parlour's Traditional Music Recordings & Resources from the Old, Weird America (LA-based music label headed by David Bragger, which puts out videos & sound recordings of today’s best old-time music… and also us!)

Free Dirt Records

Dust to Digital

Spring Fed Records

instruments and retailers

Menzies Instruments (gourd / goat-skin fiddles & banjos made in Jamaica - Jason plays one!)

D'Addario violin strings

Coda Bows

Huthmaker Violin Shop (Suwanee/ATL)

Scott Baxendale Guitar Shop (Athens)

Festivals and venues

Appalachian String Band Festival (Clifftop, WV)

Georgia String Band Festival (Calhoun, GA)

people and recordings

Bruce Greene

Art Rosenbaum

Scott Prouty

Chris Wig

Stefanini & Bragger

Spencer & Rains

The Onlies

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