Old Time Music -- a truly American music that developed in the southern Appalachian Mountains as a result of the mingling between settlers from the British Isles and West Africans who were brought to this country against their will. Central to the development of the music is the banjo, which was brought here from Africa.
An Incomplete List of Necessary Recordings:
- June Apple -- Tommy Jarrell with Kyle Creed, Bobby Patterson, & Audine Lineberry
- High Lonesome Sound -- Roscoe Holcomb
- Get Acquainted Waltz - Strange Creek Singers
- Ways of the World -- Rayna Gellert
- Bruce Molsky & Big Hoedown -- Bruce Molsky, Rafe Stefanini, and Beverly Smith
- Hell & Scissors -- Rafe Stefanini
- Say, Old Man -- Brad Lefwich
- Five Miles of Ellum Wood -- Bruce Greene
- Blue Ridge Mountain Holiday -- Various Artists
- Songs from the Mountain -- Dirk Powell, Tim O'Brien, and John Herrmann
- Old-Time String Band -- Camp Creek Boys
- Goodbye Girls, I'm Going to Boston -- Art Stamper
- Old Time, New Times -- Benton Flippen
- The Edden Hammons Collection (2 separate volumes) -- Edden Hammons
- Grey Eagle -- Ed Haley
- Forked Deer -- Ed Haley
- Red Clay Country -- Paul Brown
- High Atmosphere -- Various Artists
- Home Recordings -- John Salyer (available from Berea College, see Useful Links)
- Mississippi String Bands (Two separate volumes) -- Various Artists
- The Rest is Yet to Come -- The Double Decker Stringband
- Old Roots and New Branches -- Kirk Sutphin