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Gid Tanner and His Skillet Lickers here Extremely Rare Live Footage seen for the FIRST TIME! FIDDLIN' ARTHUR SMIITH
1945-1949 - Orange Blossom Special, John Henry, Lost Train Blues by Arthur as well as great footage of the Callahan Brothers below! PPlease click button right of PLAY to see ALL VIDEO thumbs & POINT
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Early Fiddlers of the 1920's and their stories... CLICK HERE!	Top 600 Original & Complete Oldtime Music Recordings On 1 DVD Disc! ROOTS VOLUME 1-3 600 1920's Recordings Old Time Fiddle Bands More Info... $29.95 Go to Order Page
Pope's Arkansas Mountaineers member Lee F. "Tip" McKinney was interviewed in 1972 and gave this fascinating narrative of the band and the circumstances surrounding their brief and only recording session on Monday February 6, 1928 in Memphis, Tennessee resulting in only six issued discs. Read or download complete article here.
Free Download! Old Time Music Songbook 160 Pages - Amusing and Fun! This is a songbook of lyrics transribed from oldtime recordings that I prepared some time ago for our own use but with the PDF format now being stable, I am happy to offer this for all interested. Please forgive all mistakes as I am sure there are many. Enjoy! DOWNLOAD or VIEW HERE File size =14Mb	Rare 1914 Photo! Thanks to Russell McClanahan Courtesy of Rome Area History Museum

	How TALL was Willie Narmour?
	AMAZING FACTS of the old time musicians unearthed... CLICK HERE!
Click here to read The Legend of John Dilleshaw ....who recorded as "Seven Foot Dilly" ... an article by the late Charles Wolfe.	BOOK REVIEW America's Instrument: The Banjo in the Nineteenth Century
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*DOWNLOAD FREE MP3s OF ORIGINAL OLD TIME FIDDLE RECORDINGS!!* Henceforth, I will make available several hundred mp3s of original fiddle recordings for free download - no strings attached. Click the link above to access complete downloads for 120 original recordings! Enjoy!!
Uncle John Wilder and the Plymouth Old Time Barn Dance Orchestra, Gid Tanner and the Skillet Lickers and MORE BELOW! Please click button right of PLAY to see ALL VIDEO thumbs & POINT
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Early recorded country music of the 1920's and 1930's, particulary of the southeastern states, is what is commonly referred to as "old time music". The stringband tradition composed often of banjos, fiddles, and guitars flourished for a brief time as the recording industry cashed in on the many country musicians eager to strut their stuff in the recording studio. The industry went on to make millions as the vast majority of these recording artists received very little return for their efforts. These recordings formed the true backbone of country music today, and in fact inspired the emergence of the Bill Monroe's bluegrass of the 1940's, as well as Texas swing, and early country blues. Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead in their earlier years always had a sprinkling of old time music such as the following selections. I have linked to samples of some of the earliest recorded versions:
Ballad Of Casey Jones Been All Around This World Bill Grimes the Rover Deal (Don't Let The Deal Go Down) Devilish Mary Going Down the Road Feeling Bad Hold The Woodpile Down Hop Along Peter Hungry Hash House I Truly Understand You Love Another Man Jennie Jenkins Little Birdie	(Little) Sadie Johnson Boys Keno The Rent Man Man Of Constant Sorrow Pig In A Pen Rabbit Chase Run Mountain Sally Goodin Shady Grove Take Me Back To The Sweet Sunny South Uncle Joe Working on the Building
INTERACTIVE CROSSWORD!! Test your old time music knowledge!	How to put a skin head on your banjo by S.S. Stewart
ORPINGALIK, The Netsillk Eskimo "Songs are thoughts sung out with the breath when people are moved by great forces and speech no longer suffices".