boblog -- by bob stepno

 I've just discovered this University of Albany archive of music recordings thanks to a friend or stranger on Facebook...  I was lucky e...

  Oldtime music crossover... While looking for the words to a less-often-heard "shindig in the barn" verse to "Blue Ridge Mou...

Oh my! The second pandemic year of 2021 is almost over and I haven't added a new page here since December 2019! Here's a lot of catc...

Just discovered both " The Syncopated Times " and -- in passing -- Iver Edwards, ukulele and harmonica player from Galax, Va., i...

Mac's Tune of the Week I'm making some shortcuts to this local Southwest Virginia tune list, via Mac Traynham and the Floyd Country...

Someone posted a question on Facebook asking people more or less my age whether they thought John Denver's hit "Take Me Home Countr...

I didn't play the fiddle then... And I barely do now... And I didn't compete in any contest, but in the 1970s the New England Fiddle...