East Tennessee Blues, by Uncle Charlie Wade Ward & Dale Poe Higgins fieldrecorder.bandcamp.com/track/east-ten… FRC 501 - Uncle Charlie Higgins, Wade Ward & Dale Poe: Recordings from the collection of Peter Hoover

I loved writing about this amazing gem & its leader! Appalshop

Round Town Gals, by Fred Cockerham fieldrecorder.bandcamp.com/track/round-to… FRC 101 - Fred Cockerham (Ray Alden collection)

Intro, by Kilby Snow fieldrecorder.bandcamp.com/track/intro FRC 205 - Kilby Snow: Recordings from the collection of the Brandywine Friends of Old Time Music

Here’s a #BNDCMPR playlist of #fiddle music from the #OhioRiver: bndcmpr.co/44401084 #oldtime #oldtimemusic #oldtimefiddle

Deep Elem Blues, by Kilby Snow fieldrecorder.bandcamp.com/track/deep-ele… FRC 205 - Kilby Snow: Recordings from the collection of the Brandywine Friends of Old Time Music

Clark's Waltz, by Vernon Spencer fieldrecorder.bandcamp.com/track/clarks-w… FRC 726 - Vernon Spencer of Big Springs, Kansas (Tricia Spencer collection)

Pretty Polly, by Lee Sexton & Family fieldrecorder.bandcamp.com/track/pretty-p… FRC 105 - Lee Sexton & Family: Recordings from the collection of Ray Alden

Little Stream of Whiskey, by Fred McBride fieldrecorder.bandcamp.com/track/little-s… FRC 722 - Fred McBride: North Carolina Fiddle & Banjo (From the collection of Lucas Pasley)

Sunny Home in Dixie, by Esker Hutchins fieldrecorder.bandcamp.com/track/sunny-ho… FRC 107 - Esker Hutchins: Recordings from the collection of Ray Alden

For this week’s #throwbackthursday, check out this kooky jam from the 2011 #Galax Fiddlers Convention! That was the same summer I spent a month in Berlin with that cute little beard goblin on banjo. Aaron Jonah Lewis and I have had many a musical adventure.

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Sally Goodin, by Parley Parsons fieldrecorder.bandcamp.com/track/sally-go… FRC 705 - Parley Parsons: Old Galax Fiddling (Andy Cahan & Paul Brown collections)

Perrodin Two-Step, by Dewey Balfa with Friends & Family fieldrecorder.bandcamp.com/track/perrodin… FRC 207 - Dewey Balfa with Friends & Family: Recordings from the collection of the Brandywine Friends of Old Time Music

Remembering fiddler, banjo player and finger knocker Walter Raleigh Babson, who died 35 years ago yesterday: youtu.be/UzO7TjzBtyU #oldtimemusic #oldtime #fieldrecordings #fiddle

Lee Highway Blues, by Howard Miller fieldrecorder.bandcamp.com/track/lee-high… FRC 706 - Howard Miller: 60 Years of North Carolina Fiddling (Harold Dean Miller & Marshall Wyatt collections)

I just wrote a letter asking my Representatives to Support Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib's resolution to create a new streaming royalty! Join me and write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-y… United Musicians and Allied Workers

Soldier's Joy, by Tommy Jarrell fieldrecorder.bandcamp.com/track/soldiers… FRC 212 - Tommy Jarrell Volume 2: Recordings from the collection of Jerry Epstein

Are You Washed in the Blood, by Norman Edmonds & The Old Timers fieldrecorder.bandcamp.com/track/are-you-… FRC 301 - Norman Edmonds & The Old Timers Vol.1 (Andy Cahan collection)

We have 3 (!!!) new releases today and they’ll take you back to the earliest known days of Galax-area fiddling: Luther Davis (1888-1986): tinyurl.com/3yyxc99m Hus Caudill (1884/1886-1986): tinyurl.com/35hwcvuy Luther and Hus (twin fiddling): tinyurl.com/mr27dc2d