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The Stanley Legacy: Mountain Music Creators And Ambassadors, Ted Olson
The Stanley Legacy: Mountain Music Creators And Ambassadors, Ted Olson
Ted Olson
Excerpt The most traditional-sounding of first-generation bluegrass music greats, Carter (1925-1966) and Ralph Stanley (1927-2016) were from Dickenson County, Virginia.
The 1927 Bristol Sessions And Ralph Peer: A Myth And A Legend Losing Luster In The Cold Light Of Recent Scholarship, Ted Olson
Ted Olson
Excerpt: The so-called 1927 Bristol sessions—the recording sessions conducted in Bristol, Tennessee/Virginia, during July-August 1927 by A&R (Artists & Repertoire) producer Ralph Peer and his employer, the Victor Talking Machine Company—garnered relatively little attention until the 1970s. At that point, a few scholars (notably, music historians Charles K. Wolfe, Bill C. Malone, Tony Russell, and Nolan Porterfield) and some serious music fans began to view this long-ago event in a small Appalachian city as one of the most important recording sessions of all time.
The Guitar: ‘An Orchestra Unto Itself', Ted Olson
The Guitar: ‘An Orchestra Unto Itself', Ted Olson
Ted Olson
Excerpt: The guitar, brought by the Spanish to the New World in the seventeenth century, was not common in the Blue Ridge through the dawn of the twentieth century.
Scottish Culture: Scottish And Scots-Irish Music, Ted Olson
Scottish Culture: Scottish And Scots-Irish Music, Ted Olson
Ted Olson
Excerpt: A majority of the early settlers on the Appalachian frontier were immigrants from Lowland Scotland or from Northern Ireland (the Scots-Irish, who descended primarily from Lowland Scots).
The Celtic Influence On Appalachian Music, Ted Olson
The Celtic Influence On Appalachian Music, Ted Olson
Ted Olson
Excerpt: Visitors fortunate enough to hear the John Doyle Trio during the Mountains of Music Homecoming will be reminded of the old but not forgotten bonds between Appalachia and the British Isles.
Old Time And Bluegrass: Two Main Strains Of Music Along The Crooked Road, Ted Olson
Old Time And Bluegrass: Two Main Strains Of Music Along The Crooked Road, Ted Olson
Ted Olson
Excerpt: Visitors to the Crooked Road and the Mountains of Music Homecoming will hear both old time and bluegrass music, though the difference between the two is sometimes unclear.
Book Review Of Robert Morgan's Nonfiction Books, Ted Olson
Book Review Of Robert Morgan's Nonfiction Books, Ted Olson
Ted Olson
Robert Morgan's Nonfiction Books
Ballads, Ted Olson
Ballads, Ted Olson
Ted Olson
Excerpt: Arguably the most enduring artifacts from the early days of European settlement in Appalachia, ballads are still sung in households and on festival stages along The Crooked Road.
Carroll Best: Old-Time 'Fiddle-Style Banjo' From The Great Smoky Mountains, Ted Olson
Carroll Best: Old-Time 'Fiddle-Style Banjo' From The Great Smoky Mountains, Ted Olson
Ted Olson
Excerpt: In an interview published in the February 1992 issue of The Banjo Newsletter and conducted by bluegrass historian Neil Rosenberg and banjo player and instruction book author Tony Trischka, Carroll Best conveyed the depth of his connections to the instrument he had mastered: “When I was old enough to pick up a banjo I wanted to play.”
Blind Alfred Reed: Appalachian Visionary, Ted Olson
Blind Alfred Reed: Appalachian Visionary, Ted Olson
Ted Olson
Excerpt: An unpublished song by Blind Alfred Reed, transcribed by Reed’s granddaughter Delores Crawford.
'Can You Sing Or Play Old-Time Music?': The Johnson City Sessions, Ted Olson
'Can You Sing Or Play Old-Time Music?': The Johnson City Sessions, Ted Olson
Ted Olson
Excerpt: In a recent interview, musician Wynton Marsalis said, “I can’t tell you how many times I’ve suggested to musicians to get The Bristol Sessions—Anglo-American folk music.
Book Review Of Art Rosenbaum: The Mary Lomax Ballad Book: America's Great Twenty-First Century Traditional Singer, Ted Olson
Ted Olson
Review of Art Rosenbaum: The Mary Lomax Ballad Book: America's Great Twenty-first Century Traditional Singer
Book Review Of Fiona Ritchie And Doug Orr: Wayfaring Strangers: The Musical Voyage From Scotland And Ulster To Appalachia, Ted Olson
Ted Olson
Review of Fiona Ritchie and Doug Orr: Wayfaring Strangers: The Musical Voyage from Scotland and Ulster to Appalachia
Book Review Of Stephen Wade: The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings And The American Experience, Ted Olson
Ted Olson
Stephen Wade: The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience
The Longest Night, Ted Olson
Book Review Of The Oxford Book Of American Poetry: The Difficulty Of Anthologizing American Poetry, Ted Olson
Book Review Of The Oxford Book Of American Poetry: The Difficulty Of Anthologizing American Poetry, Ted Olson
Ted Olson
Review of The Oxford Book of American Poetry: The Difficulty of Anthologizing American Poetry
Recording Review Of Spain In My Heart: Songs Of The Spanish Civil War, Ted Olson
Recording Review Of Spain In My Heart: Songs Of The Spanish Civil War, Ted Olson
Ted Olson
Spain in My Heart: Songs of the Spanish Civil War. 2014. Written and compiled by Jürgen Schebera. Bear Family Records, book, CDs (7), DVD, BCD 16093.
Recording Review Of Alexis Zoumbas: A Lament For Epirus, 1926-1928 And Five Days Married & Other Laments: Song And Dance From Northern Greece, 1928-1958, Ted Olson
Ted Olson
Review of Alexis Zoumbas: A Lament for Epirus, 1926-1928 and Five Days Married & Other Laments: Song and Dance from Northern Greece, 1928-1958
Book Review Of The Troubles And Their Aftermath: James B. Johnston's Memories Of Northern Ireland, Ted Olson
Book Review Of The Troubles And Their Aftermath: James B. Johnston's Memories Of Northern Ireland, Ted Olson
Ted Olson
Review of The Troubles and Their Aftermath: James B. Johnston's Memories of Northern Ireland by James B. Johnson
Recording Review Of Folksongs Of Another America: Field Recordings From The Upper Midwest, 1937-1946, Ted Olson
Recording Review Of Folksongs Of Another America: Field Recordings From The Upper Midwest, 1937-1946, Ted Olson
Ted Olson
Review of Folksongs of Another America: Field Recordings from the Upper Midwest, 1937–1946. 2015. Produced, compiled, and annotated by James P. Leary. Dust-to-Digital, CDs (5), DVD, DTD-43.
Recording Review Of Woody Guthrie, American Radical Patriot, Ted Olson
Recording Review Of Woody Guthrie, American Radical Patriot, Ted Olson
Ted Olson
Review of Woody Guthrie, American Radical Patriot
Recording Review Of Charlie Poole With The Highlanders: Complete Recordings, Ted Olson
Recording Review Of Charlie Poole With The Highlanders: Complete Recordings, Ted Olson
Ted Olson
Review of Charlie Poole with The Highlanders: Complete Recordings
Recording Review Of Georgia Yellow Hammers & Associates, Ted Olson
Recording Review Of Georgia Yellow Hammers & Associates, Ted Olson
Ted Olson
Review of Georgia Yellow Hammers & Associates: Vols. 1-4
Recording Review Of Parchman Farm: Photographs And Field Recordings, 1947-55, Ted Olson
Recording Review Of Parchman Farm: Photographs And Field Recordings, 1947-55, Ted Olson
Ted Olson
Review of Parchman Farm: Photographs and Field Recordings, 1947-55
Recording Review Of Legends Of Old-Time Music: Fifty Years Of County Records, Ted Olson
Recording Review Of Legends Of Old-Time Music: Fifty Years Of County Records, Ted Olson
Ted Olson
Review of Legends of Old-Time Music: Fifty Years of County Records
Recording Review Of Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection, Ted Olson
Recording Review Of Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection, Ted Olson
Ted Olson
Review of Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection
The Bristol Sessions: A Memorable Marriage Of Tradition And Technology, Ted Olson
The Bristol Sessions: A Memorable Marriage Of Tradition And Technology, Ted Olson
Ted Olson
Excerpt: Transcribed from a time-less song recorded in August 1927 by the Carter Family, the above lyrics (and their accompanying, memorably lilting melody) have moved millions of people worldwide.
Book Review Of Caleb Beissert: Federico Garcia Lorca & Pablo Neruda: Beautiful, Translations From The Spanish, Ted Olson
Ted Olson
Review of Caleb Beissert: Federico Garcia Lorca & Pablo Neruda: Beautiful, Translations from the Spanish
Book Review Of Hank Reineke: Arlo Guthrie: The Warner Reprise Years, Ted Olson
Book Review Of Hank Reineke: Arlo Guthrie: The Warner Reprise Years, Ted Olson
Ted Olson
Arlo Guthrie: The Warner/Reprise Years. By Hank Reineke. (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2012. Pp. xix + 327, series editor's foreword, preface, acknowledgments, discography, bibliography, index, 11 photographs, three illustrations.)
The National Storytelling Festival: Words, Music, And Memories, Ted Olson
The National Storytelling Festival: Words, Music, And Memories, Ted Olson
Ted Olson
Excerpt: A Other acclaimed masters of the spoken word scheduled to appear at this year’s Festival include David Novak, Minton Sparks, Joseph Bruchac, Milbre Burch, and Jackson Gillman. Each year the Festival seeks to represent storytelling from a range of cultural traditions, and this year is no exception. Rev. Robert Jones and Diane Ferlatte will present stories and music relating African American experience, while Festival attendees may also see and hear performances by Yiddish storyteller Shonaleigh, Chinese American storyteller and musician Charlie Chin, and Brazilian performance artist Antonio Rocha. Several special events will be held in Anyone who shares an …