Reading Material
READING MATERIAL
Magazines
Journals
ARSC Journal – Association of Recorded Sound Collections
Books
Amazon:
Strings of Life: Conversations with Old Time Musicians by Kevin Donleavy
Fiddlin’ Georgia Crazy: Fiddlin’ John Carson, His Real World, and the World of His Songs
Linthead Stomp: The Creation of Country Music in the Piedmont South by Patrick Huber
Country Music, U.S.A.: Third Revised Edition by Bill C. Malone and Jocelyn R. Neal
In the Country of Country: A Journey to the Roots of American Music by Nicholas Dawidoff
Wayfaring Strangers: The Musical Voyage from Scotland and Ulster to Appalachia by Fiona Ritchie, Doug Orr, Darcy Orr
The Scotch-Irish Influence on Country Music in the Carolinas: Border Ballads, Fiddle Tunes and Sacred Songs by Michael C. Scoggins
Alan Lomax, Assistant In Charge: The Library Of Congress Letters, 1935 – 1945 by Ronald D. Cohen
African Banjo Echoes In Appalachia: A Study Of Folk Traditions by Cecelia Conway
Gone To The Country: The New Lost City Ramblers And The Folk Music Revival by Ray Allen
Traditional Musicians Of The Central Blue Ridge – Old Time, Early Country, Folk And Bluegrass Label Recording Artists, With Discographies by Marty Mcgee
Will You Miss Me When I’m Gone: The Carter Family And Their Legacy In American Music by Mark Zwonitzer With Charles Hirshberg
A Banjo Pickin’ Girl: The Life And Music Of Ola Belle Campbell Reed by Judy H. Marti
Alan Lomax, Assistant In Charge: The Library Of Congress Letters, 1935 – 1945 by Ronald D. Cohen
Banjo On The Mountain: Wade Mainer’s First Hundred Years by Dick Spottswood
Fiddle
Play of a Fiddle: Traditional Music, Dance, and Folklore of West Virginia by Gerry Milnes
Fiddling Way Out Yonder: The Life and Music of MelvinWine by Drew Beisswenger
The Devil’s Box: Masters of Southern Fiddling by Charles Wolfe
Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes by Jeff Todd Titon
The Fiddle Book by Marion Thede
The Old-Time Fiddler’s Repertory: 245 Traditional Tunes by R. P. Christeson
The Old-Time Fiddler’s Repertory Volume 2 by R.P. Christeson
Beginning Old Time Fiddle by Alan Kaufman
The Fiddler’s Fakebook: The Ultimate Sourcebook For The Traditional Fiddler by David Brody
Ragtime for Fiddle & Mandolin by Steve Parker
150 Hot Tunes for Fiddle & Mandolin by Steve Parker
Elderly:
Fiddle Tunes I Learned At The Tractor Tavern (And Other Places Around Puget Sound) – The Millennium Edition (Revised) by Gene Silberberg
The Complete – Fiddle Tunes I Either Did Or Did Not Learn At The Tractor Tavern by Gene Silberberg
Fiddle Tunes Illuminated by Alan Jabbour
Banjo
Ring the Banjar! by Robert Lloyd Webb
African Banjo Echoes in Appalachia by Cecelia Conway
Old Time Songs For Clawhammer Banjo by David K Marshall
Old-Time Backup Guitar: Learn From the Masters by John Schwab
The Banjo Player’s Songbook: Over 200 great songs arranged for the five-string banjo by Tim Jumper
The Art of the Mountain Banjo by Art Rosenbaum
Old Time String Band Banjo Styles by Joseph Weidlich
Minstrel Banjo: Briggs’ Banjo Instructor by Joseph Weidlich
Wade Ward – Clawhammer Banjo Master (Book/CD Set) by Bob Carlin & Dan Levenson
Kyle Creed – Clawhammer Banjo Master (Book/CD Set) by Bob Carlin
Round Peak Style Clawhammer Banjo by Brad Leftwich
Clawhammer Banjo by Miles Krassen
Clawhammer Style Banjo by Ken Perlman
The How and the Tao of Old Time Banjo by Patrick Costello
A Book of Five Strings: Strategies for Mastering the Art of Old Time Banjo by Patrick Costello
How To Play The 5-String Banjo by Pete Seeger
Clawhammer Banjo String Band Favorites by Steve Parker
Mandolin
Old Time String Band Music for Mandolin by Joseph Weidlich
150 Hot Tunes for Fiddle & Mandolin by Steve Parker
Ragtime for Fiddle & Mandolin by Steve Parker
The Mandolin Picker’s Fakebook by David Brody
Guitar
Guitar Pickers Fakebook: The Ultimate Sourcebook for the Traditional Guitar by David Brody
String Band
Old-Time String Band Songbook by Cohen/Seeger/Wood
Songs
Ragtime
Ragtime for Fiddle & Mandolin by Steve Parker
Other related interesting books
The Complete Crumb Comics Vol. 16 – Robert Crumb
Long Steel Rail – Norm Cohen
Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women – Ricky Jay
