Articles and Interviews

1 Buying an Inexpensive (but not cheap) Mandolin by Wayne Erbsen
2 “Keep a-Goin’” Musician Everett Lilly of Clear Creek, West Virginia by John Lilly. Photograph by Michael Keller
3 Hank Williams’ Lost Charleston Show By John Lilly
4 “West Virginia, My Home” A Visit With Hazel Dickens Interview by John Lilly
5 Arkansas Traveler © 2013 by Wayne Erbsen
6 Bluegrass Gospel Songs
7 Easy Fiddle Tunes © 2013 by Wayne Erbsen
8 Easy Guitar Songs © 2013 by Wayne Erbsen
9 Very Easy Banjo Songs © 2013 by Wayne Erbsen
10 Very Easy Mandolin Songs © 2013 by Wayne Erbsen
11 One Finger Easy Chords for Banjo © 2013 by Wayne Erbsen
12 Why Are There So Many Banjo Jokes? © 2013 by Wayne Erbsen
13 Secrets of Playing the Banjo by Ear © 2013 by Wayne Erbsen
14 Secrets of Playing Fiddle by Ear © 2013 by Wayne Erbsen
15 Secrets of Playing Mandolin by Ear © 2013 by Wayne Erbsen
16 Easy Bluegrass & Folk Songs on Guitar
17 How Hard is it to Learn to Play the 5-String Banjo?
18 Easy Bluegrass & Folk Songs on Mandolin
19 I Wish I Had a Hamburger © 2013 by Wayne Erbsen
20 Country Roots Radio Playlist
21 The Secret Signals of Musicians © 2012 by Wayne Erbsen
22 "We Always Tried to Be Good People": Respectability, Crazy Water Crystals, and Hillbilly Music on the Air, 1933-1935 by Pamela Grundy
23 Mountains of Songs © 2012 by Wayne Erbsen
24 Fiddlin' John Carson © 2012 by Wayne Erbsen
25 Blue Sky Boys © 2012 by Wayne Erbsen
26 Ernest "Pop" Stoneman © 2012 by Wayne Erbsen
27 Karl and Harty © 2012 by Wayne Erbsen
28 Fiddlin' Arthur Smith © 2012 by Wayne Erbsen
29 Henry Whitter & G.B. Grayson © 2012 by Wayne Erbsen
30 Dock Walsh & The Carolina Tar Heels © 2012 by Wayne Erbsen
31 Vernon Dalhart © 2012 by Wayne Erbsen
32 Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers © 2012 by Wayne Erbsen
33 Eck Robertson, Master Fiddler - © 2012 by Wayne Erbsen
34 Who Moved My Cheese? © 2012 by Wayne Erbsen
35 Log Cabin Songs © 2012 by Wayne Erbsen
36 The Simplest Harmony Part in Bluegrass Music © 2012 by Wayne Erbsen
37 The Dreaded Count-In © 2012 by Wayne Erbsen
38 It’s the Melody, Stupid! © 2012 by Wayne Erbsen
39 Footprints in the Snow © 2012 by Wayne Erbsen
40 Figuring Out Chords at the Shindig on the Green © 2012 by Wayne Erbsen
41 The Appalachian Dulcimer © 2012 by Wayne Erbsen
42 Learn to Play the Banjo & Save Electricity! © 2011 by Wayne Erbsen
43 The Dreaded G Scale & the Magic Numbers © 2011 by Wayne Erbsen
44 Clarence White and the Roots of Bluegrass Guitar in Southern California
45 Lovesick Blues © 2012 by Wayne Erbsen
46 A History of Bluegrass Guitar in Western North Carolina By John Martin
47 "Hallejuha I'm a Bum" & Harry McClintock © 2012 by Wayne Erbsen
48 The Hanging of Fiddlin’ Joe Coleman © 2012 by Wayne Erbsen
49 How to Tune a Guitar
50 Guitar Chords
51 Banjo Chords
52 How to Tune a Mandolin
53 How to Play Banjo
54 How to Tune a Banjo
55 Bluegrass Standards
56 How to Jam on the Mandolin
57 The Great American Tear Jerker by Wayne Erbsen
58 Swannanoa Tunnel
59 Pretty Polly
60 The Ballad of Frankie Silvers
61 Arkansas Traveler
62 The Big Bang Theory of Bluegrass
63 Easy Banjo Songs
64 Mandolin Chords
65 Easy Mandolin Songs
66 Civil War Music
67 The West Virginia Coon Hunters
68 Blind Alfred Reed
69 Okeh Record's Historic Session in Asheville by Kent Priestly
70 Banjo History by George R. Gibson
71 The 5-String Banjo in North Carolina by C.P. Heaton
72 Appalachian Tradition Music, A Short History by Debbie McClatchy
73 Music of the Southern Appalachians by Mike Seeger
74 Buying a Used Guitar by Bob Smakula
75 Cracks by Bob Smakula
76 Rosin by Bob Smakula
77 Truss Rods by Bob Smakula
78 Fitting Fiddle Pegs by Bob Smackula
79 Repairing Your Instrument Case by Bob Smackula
80 D-18, D-28 ... What it All Means by Bob Smakula
81 The Delmore Brothers - A History
82 History of Jimmy Rodgers, Blue Yodeler by John Lilly
83 Carter Family Music & History by John Lilly
84 The Coon Creek Girls by John Lilly
85 How to Build Your Own "Hamdolin" by Wayne Erbsen
86 How to Play Mandolin
87 How to Play the Banjo
88 Clawhammer Banjo - A Simple Lesson
89 Welcome Closet Banjo Players! by Wayne Erbsen
90 The Ballad of Barbara Allen by Wayne Erbsen
91 The Art of Chewing Tobacco for the Complete Ignoramus by Wayne Erbsen
92 Dan Emmett - The Man Who Wrote "Dixie" by Wayne Erbsen
93 Walter Davis - Fisk & Skull Banjo by Wayne Erbsen
94 Tommy Millard - Blackfaced Musician & Bluegrass Boy by Wayne Erbsen
95 Curly & Jack, The Shelton Brothers by Wayne Erbsen
96 Making His Own Way - Raymond Fairchild by Wayne Erbsen
97 Wiley & Zeke Morris, The Morris Brothers by Wayne Erbsen
98 Lester Woodie, Coming Up The Hard Road by Wayne Erbsen
99 Jim Shumate, Bluegrass Fiddler Supreme by Wayne Erbsen
100 Cleo Davis, The Original Bluegrass Boy by Wayne Erbsen
101 Thicker'n Fiddler's in Hell by Wayne Erbsen
102 Clawhammer Banjo - What is it? by Wayne Erbsen
103 Bluegrass Music & Old-Time Music: What's the difference? by Wayne Erbsen
104 Bluegrass Music in Western North Carolina by Wayne Erbsen