by Wayne Erbsen & Laura Boosinger

CD $14.95

This great recording features the crystal clear voice of Laura Boosinger alongside the banjo, fiddle, guitar and mandolin wizardry of Wayne Erbsen. Like its companion book, above, this recording draws from the very roots of bluegrass.  54 minutes, 13 vocals, 3 instrumentals. Instruments include fiddle, clawhammer & bluegrass banjo, banjo-mandolin, mandolin, guitar, bass.

by Wayne Erbsen

Book $5.95

A treasure trove of 19th century songs, hilarious jokes, wild stories, vintage photos, and even a recipe for cooking groundhog! 48 favorite melodies of the past that have traveled along with the pioneers in covered wagons through the Civil War period and up to today!  8½ x 5½ , 64 pages. The perfect companion to the recording "Front Porch Favorites."  Over 125,000 sold!

by Wayne Erbsen

CD $14.95

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A best-selling recording of 17 foot-stomping melodies found in the Front Porch book. Features Wayne on banjo, fiddle, mandolin, dulcimer, and guitar, David Holt on spoons, washboard, harmonica, tambourine, and bones and Phil Jamison on feet! 55 minutes. All instrumentals. The perfect companion to the book "Front Porch Songs, Jokes & Stories."

Arkansas Traveler, Blue-Tail Fly, Oh! Susanna, Turkey in the Straw, Golden Slippers, Old Joe Clark, Buffalo Gals, Grandfathers's Clock, Cindy, Cripple Creek, Blue-Tailed Fly, Polly Wolly Doodle, Sunny South, Ground Hog, Jack of Diamonds, The Riddle Song, When Johnny Comes Marching Home.

"I just love Front Porch Favorites to Death!" --Fenix D. Scully

"The musicianship is very skillful."--Sing Out!

"A great way to get introduced to the classic stuff." --Kathleen C. Vandermortel

"I am most truly enjoying Front Porch Favorites." --Rev. Greg K. Gunn

by Wayne Erbsen

Book $9.95

The Outhouse Papers is a hoot! Absolutely funny and absorbing, this hilarious book includes weird and wacky stories, strange historical facts, jokes, and folklore on a wide range of topics. Lose yourself in moonshine tales, old-fashion marriage advice, and even the Duct Tape Diet. Learn the lost art of hurling insults and making jerk coffee. Master the secret slang of Civil War soldiers, railroaders, hobos, and cowboys. Marvel at weird laws, strange inventions, and bizarre festivals, like the Cow Chip Throwing Championship, and the Rattlesnake Derby. Revel in quirky factoids about rich and famous Americans all the way from Thomas Jefferson to Al Capone. This book belongs in every outhouse in America. 4" x 9", 192 pages

Wayne Erbsen

Book $14.95

Step inside the door of Log Cabin Pioneers as Wayne Erbsen takes you on a personal journey of finding and restoring an historic log cabin. By the magic of a crackling fire, he'll introduce you to authentic pioneers who will sing you ancient songs, spin yarns about Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone and Thomas Jefferson, and tell spell-binding tales of bear hunting with moonshine or give you advice on how to buy a mule. Join other settlers in a house raising, hew logs for a cabin, shop in an old-time general store, eat ash cake and dance your socks off at an old-fashioned barn dance. Includes remedies, superstitions, romantic advice, 143 vintage photos, words & music to 19 songs. 6" x 9", 184 pages, perfect bound, glossy full color cover. The perfect companion to the recording "Log Cabin Songs."

by Wayne Erbsen & Laura Boosinger

CD $14.95 

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Roll up the rug, clear the floor and grab your partner! Kick up your heels with spunky old-time dance tunes, historic songs and ancient ballads of America's log cabin pioneers. Little Log Cabin in the Lane, Darling Cory, Puncheon Floor, Sugar in the Gourd, Cricket on the Hearth, My Old Cottage Home, The Blackest Crow, Goodbye to My Stepstone, Mary of the Wild Moor, East Virginia, Red Rocking Chair, Fracas on York Ridge, and Lost Jug in the Cornpile.  10 Vocals, 6 instrumentals played on banjo, fiddle, mandolin, guitar, and bass. 48 minutes. The perfect companion to the book "Log Cabin Pioneers."

by Wayne Erbsen

Book $6.95

Along with its twin brother, above, The Backpocket Old-Time Songbook is considered a classic. In addition to song lyrics, musical notation and guitar chords, it is packed hints on singing in the right key, singing with an instrument, transposing your chords, using a capo, plus a short history of old-time songs, minstrel songs, dance tunes, knockdown tunes, ballads, parlor songs and gospel songs. Includes numerous vintage photos. 57 pages.

Wayne Erbsen

Book $6.95

Since it came out in 1981, thousands of people have enjoyed and learned from the pages of the Backpocket Bluegrass Songbook. In addition to the lyrics and melody line, the book also includes guitar chords, tips on choosing the right key, using the capo, bluegrass music history, information on each song, and vintage photos. 57 pages.

by Wayne Erbsen

CD $14.95

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A rollicking collection of classic 19th century American tunes. Spirited performances on clawhammer banjo, old-time fiddle, guitar, mandolin, dulcimer, bass and feet! 16 tunes, all instrumental, 48 minutes. Features Dirk Powell on fiddle, who recently played fiddle on the soundtrack to the movie "Cold Mountain."

Wayne Erbsen

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Come on in! We're having a Wingding! Sample the music you might have heard at a turn-of-the century party. We'll take you into the parlors of city dwellers and to a rural barn dance. 14 timeless instrumentals, 40 minutes. Features 5 & 6 stringed banjos, fiddle, minstrel banjo, guitar, bass, mandolin, banjo-mandolin, banjo-guitar, spoons.

"You play these grand old melodies with obvious love, sensitivity and authenticity. This may be my favorite Native Ground recording to date."--Dave Higg, Bluegrass Breakdown, WPLN-FM Nashville

by Martin Fox & Jeff Winegar

CD $14.95

"The Way it Was" by Martin Fox and Jeff Winegar features the driving, primal sound of 19th century fiddle and banjo music. In the early days before the guitar made its way into the Southern Appalachians, the fiddle and banjo were the mainstay "band" for musical gatherings of all sorts, barn raisings, corn shuckings, making moonshine, and of course, dances and "frolics." These eighteen tunes will transport you back in time. Fox and Winegar play a wide variety of rare old tunes from Eastern Kentucky, Southwest Virginia and Western North Carolina. There are breakdowns, played in the tight, cohesive and driving style, and slower, haunting pieces like "The Wounded Hoosier."