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"Cumberland Gap," performed by Tommy Jarrell on banjo and vocal at his home in Toast, North Carolina. Shot by Alan Lomax and crew, July 23, 1983. F...

Fretless banjo medley. The second tune is from the fiddling of Henry Reed and has some distinctive bits which set it apart from the similar "Twin S...

A ballad

Sings a folk song

WV old-time fiddler Wilson Douglas (1922-1999) plays "Shelvin' Rock" at the 1994 Clifftop festival. Kim Johnson - Banjo, Darrell McCumbers - Guitar

Music

Sonny Boy Nelson (Eugene Powell), vocal and guitar, shot by Alan Lomax, John Bishop, and Worth Long in Greenville, Mississippi, August 31, 1978. Fo...

Bully Official Trailer #1 - Weinstein Company Movie (2012) HD

This year, over 5 million American kids will be bullied at school, online, on the bu...

Cynthia Cruz reads at the Stain of Poetry reading series in Brooklyn on January 30, 2009. Video by Stain of Poetry. http://stainofpoetry.wordpr...

Eighteenth post -- "Why Should I Be So Lonesome" by Jimmie Rodgers, a request from Vilray Blair Bolles in Brooklyn, NY. I'm always happy to learn a...

Deleuran Enevoldsen trying out this tune for the first time. Tobias Enevoldsen on his star fiddle and Jesper Deleuran on guitar.

Aoife O'Donovan live at the Wonder Ballroom in Portland, Oregon on 3/7/2012 performing Beekeeper.

Jerron Paxton on guitar, Frank Fairfield on fiddle. Recorded at Redwood Bar, Downtown LA 12/28/09

Blind Boy Paxton & Frank Fairfield played an incredible set at the Redwood Bar & Grill in Los Angeles, CA

They had a great variety of tunes from C...

Blind Boy Paxton & Frank Fairfield played an incredible set at the Redwood Bar & Grill in Los Angeles, CA

They had a great variety of tunes from C...

Earl White, Erynn Marshall, Mark Olitsky jam at the 2010 Portland Gathering. The tune is Candy Girl.

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Brown University professor CD Wright weaves oral histories, news reports and interviews into her po...