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Ola Belle’s Banjo: A Banjo Story with Cathy Fink
From the early 1980’s until her passing, my partner Marcy Marxer and I paid many a visit to Ola Belle Reed and her family. Each visit included Ola Belle’s soup and big hospitality, songs, tunes, stories, gossip and many doses of...
Memories of Clyde
I grew up listening to Clyde on the old LP's my dad got when he was working as a seasonal at Pickett State Parkin 1979 under Bobby Fulcher. The album was "Tough Mountain Music," which featured Clyde and W.L. Gregory along with...
Bill Peterson on Midwest Fiddling Legend Dwight Lamb
I spent 1973 on the small island of Adak, Alaska as a communications operator for the U.S. Navy. A buddy of mine bought a copy of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s “Will the Circle Be Unbroken” recording; he liked the cover...
Clarke Buehling: interview & tunes
My first exposure to old-time music was probably when Hobart Smith came to perform at my high school outside of Chicago. Within a few weeks, I had gone down to The Old Town folk school and bought $35 Kay banjo. One of...
First Annual Queer and Trans Oldtime Music Gathering: an interview
“A shared vision.” “Healing and transformative.” “Exceptional togetherness.”
When Clive North and Willi Carlisle talk about the First Annual Queer and Trans Oldtime Music Gathering, it’s easy to see this event has the potential to be something really powerful.
