Online Folk Music Station

The Music Well I haven't heard it yet, but it seems worth a listen.

Homespun Tapes

Homespun Tapes

Happy Traum's music tutorial website. Covers lots of instruments and styles, particularly blues and country.

Online Music Shops

Hobgoblin

Amazing variety of acoustic instruments.

Folk Instruments Collection of shops and instrument makers.


Songstones Unusual ocarinas for £12:95

The Music Room



TUTORS

Folk Revolution

KIng Oliver

http://www.doctorjazz.co.uk/portnewor.html#koliver

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_%22King%22_Oliver




http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/jazz/profiles/joe_oliver.shtml

Cisco Houston

Cisco Houston long gone

New York Town
http://www.ciscohouston.com/MP3s/new_york_town.mp3

The Blackleg Miner

Wikipedia. Background to the song

Dick Gaughan.Words

Dick Gaughan. Music. Including Midi file.

Ryan's Fancy performing a version of this song.

Collection of old mining photos backed by Steeleye Span version of this song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWA7QujvQl0&feature=related

Blue Horses Their version of this song. I saw them at the Trowbridge festival a few years ago. Wonder if they're still around.

American Banjo

Above: Donald Zepp from Zepp Music





Zepp Music

A music shop in Wendell, NC (North Carolina?) owned by Donald B. Zepp.
This is a great site. It's mostly banjos and he records them on this site to give people an idea of how they sound. Lots of great tunes to listen to. He has recorded a tune called Shady Grove lots of times. The link takes you to a video on YouTube.

One thing that strikes me is how much English/Scottish/Irish influence there is in this style of music - though of course, the Americans have given it their own distinctive sound.
Shady Groves sounds like the English folk song Matty Groves - similar name too.
Then there are more or less straight Irish tunes like Paddy on the Turnpike.


Old Hat Records

















Click on photo for link to Old Hat records.



http://www.honkingduck.com/

http://juneberry78s.com/index.html

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

http://www.ronimusic.com/

http://70.154.102.35/%7Emtsouth/ssblinks.htm

Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Wikipedia

Down By The Riverside

Up Above My Head

Candyman; Fotheringay

Meet on the Ledge

Candyman

Tablature, How to

Guide to Tablature

Fifth Avenue

I bought a guitar tutoring video from a secondhand shop. It was produced by Fifth Avenue Films. I thought it was pretty good.

Irish Music

Irish Fiddle Welcome Page

A comprehensive guide to Irish fiddle music. Has some tunes on it using software called Scorch. Didn't work for me, although I downloaded the Scorch program.

Mel Bay

Mel Bay is a long-established American company who specialise in music tutorials. This address is the home page. You can navigate to everywhere else from there, but I'll include a few links to help you -

Guitar Sessions Various bits and pieces about guitar playing. Not that brilliant, but worth a mooch.

http://www.fiddlesessions.com/

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