If you want to listen to more tunes:
Slippery Hill – one of the largest collections of old-time recordings.
Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection– collection of fiddle tunes recorded in the late 1960s.
Or explore other archives:
Digital Library of Appalachia– materials relating to the culture of the southern and central Appalachian region, including music.
Folk Music Index – collection of folk tunes.
Association for Cultural Equity – archives of Alan Lomax, an ethnomusicologist in the early 20th century who collected folk music recordings.
Or read more about the genre’s history:
Boyd, Sophia Alvarez. “Breaking down the Legacy of Race in Traditional Music in America.” NPR, NPR, 25 July 2020.
Cohen, John. Speed Bumps on a Dirt Road : When Old Time Music Met Bluegrass. First edition., PowerHouse Books, 2019.
Gura, Philip F., and James F. Bollman. America’s Instrument : The Banjo in the Nineteenth Century. University of North Carolina Press, 1999.
Russell, Tony. Rural Rhythm : The Story of Old-Time Country Music in 78 Records. Oxford University Press, 2021
Wells, Paul F. “African-American Music in Appalachia: Fiddling as an Avenue of Black-White Musical Interchange.” Black Music Research Journal, vol. 23, no. 1–2, 2003, pp. 135–47.
Or watch things about old-time music: