boblog -- by bob stepno

This YouTube clip of a 1924 recording of Ida Red by Fiddlin' Powers and Family is accompanied by a photograph showing a young lady ...

"What tunes do you play at those 'old time music' jam sessions?" I can generally rattle off a dozen tune names, not tha...

A musician friend -- singer, guitarist, radio host, and scholar of pre-WorldWar II music -- posted on Facebook that he would like very mu...

Happy birthday to Josh White! (February 11, 1914 – September 5, 1969) I saw him on the old ABC Hootenanny TV show, and soon scraped tog...

A few years after starting to play the tiple, an unusual 10-string ukulele-tuned instrument , I am still curious to learn who played tipl...

My friend Richard loves to sing this song, and I noticed a while ago that I could pick it out on my Firefly banjo uke in his key... so at...

Songwriters have added their voices to the campaign against natural-gas pipeline construction in the mountains of West Virginia, Virginia an...