Listening to and learning old-time tunes online
on youtube from the Berkeley Old Time Music Convention, this a terrific collection of different great musicians playing tunes at a moderate speed we can play along with.
This is Steve Blake's youtube where he plays over 150 tunes, often with guitar accompaniment, sometimes nice and slow. If you find it helpful, please do subscribe.
Larry Warren's extensive collection of multiple source recordings for tunes, now easily searchable by name.
Paul Brown's radio programmes are a treasure box of old recordings, new recordings, stories behind tunes etc etc. Wonderful and entertaining and informative.
"a semi daily blog that documents old-time mountain tunes and songs that I play and that you can play too." A really informative site, espeically as you can hear source recordings for each tune (nearly 200). Lots of other useful links, too. Not just for banjo players - great for banjo-less fiddlers to play along to.
Back-up tracks for loads of old-time tunes, played on various combinations of guitar, banjo and fiddle to play along with. A real labour of love.
An amazing massive collection of old-time country music from the 20s and 30s, Library of Congress recordings, blues, gospel, &c &c... searchable by artist or title. NOTE: Sadly the site owner has died, and some links no longer work but others still do.
The Old-Time Herald Bi-monthly magazine from North Carolina which "celebrates the love of old-time music -- grassroots or home-grown music and dance..." [Warning: reading this will make you realise there's festivals every weekend and loads of workshops all through the summer and beyond, and cause you to want to go over there.]
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is an "exploration of the Harry Smith Anthology. ... With this blog, i want to use the Folkways Anthology as a roadmap to explore american folk music. I’ ll use texts, images, music and videos gathered from my personal collection and from the web to make this work-in-progress enjoyable and educational the best i can. " says its author Gael, an old-time musician in France (whom some of us had the pleasure of meeting and playing music with this summer (2012).