/r/oldtimemusic
A place for lovers of old-time music.
A place for lovers of American Old-Time music.
Old Time is a specific genre and not just old music.
It generally refers to the dance music and songs that came from the European/African immigrant musicians living in the Southern Appalachians and Ozarks and less commonly other areas around the country. Typically involves a fiddle, banjo, guitars, or just solo ballad singing.
Feel free to post anything old time related especially audio/video of you playing.
Typical examples of Old Time:
Old Time Stringband playing a Tune
Valuable Resources:
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Shady Grove on the Hammmmmmered Dulcimer!
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old-time country blues
This is a country blues original I recently recorded, called "Appaloosa Blues". Hope you enjoy it! For similar blues, folk, and roots music, you can visit my YouTube channel here: https://youtube.com/@roughguessmusic
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Cripple Creek - Fretless Banjo - Fretless Friday Ep 5
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Down To The River To Pray (D) - Clawhammer Banjo
14:47 UTC
Spooky folk/blues?
I'm looking for some dark & spooky old-time folk and blues songs. Murder ballads are alright, but I'm looking more for ghost story songs--spirits, haints, and boogers of all kinds. Thanks in advance!
20:32 UTC
Whiteface (Joe Thrift) - Clawhammer Banjo
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Nancy - Clawhammer Banjo
16:51 UTC
Haste to The Wedding
05:30 UTC
Do you go to ADae for d tunes on fiddle
For A mojor tunes I will tune to cross A . Or calico of it's a calico tune. Some A modely tunes I prefer out of standard but cross often works too...
But D tunes, sometimes I'll go up to high base but as often as not I'll just play out of standard, Its nice having the low A but , I get lazy.
Do y'all retune for D tunes or stay in standard ? I feel like most D tunes can work just as well out of standard
02:00 UTC
Rudee Down in New Orleans by Blaze Foley
15:09 UTC
Cluck Old Hen - Fretless Banjo - Fretless Friday Ep 4
14:47 UTC
Squirrel Heads And Gravy - Clawhammer Banjo
16:10 UTC
Springfield (Erynn Marshall)- Clawhammer Banjo
07:24 UTC
“A Ragtime Skedaddle” - George Rosey (1899)
20:02 UTC
Sittin' on Top of the World played by Giri and Uma Peters
18:44 UTC
Turkey In The Straw
16:59 UTC
Over The Waterfall - Clawhammer Banjo
16:31 UTC
Yellow Barber - Clawhammer Banjo
17:28 UTC
Red Rocking Chair - Fretless Banjo - Fretless Friday Ep 3
05:18 UTC
Sandy River Belle - Clawhammer Banjo
13:49 UTC
Sandy River Belle - Clawhammer Banjo
13:48 UTC
Waterbound - Clawhammer Banjo
16:20 UTC
Little Dutch Girl - Clawhammer Banjo
16:45 UTC
Dinah - Clawhammer Banjo
18:09 UTC
Booth Shot Lincoln - Fretless Banjo - Fretless Friday Ep 2
09:59 UTC
Old Mother Flanagan - Clawhammer Banjo
14:04 UTC
Willie Watson, plays Birmingham Mill,
06:49 UTC
Sarah Jarosz plays Little Satchel
06:42 UTC
Sam Shackleton plays Cuckoo Bird
06:29 UTC
Brodie Buttons play Hills of Bendigo
06:26 UTC
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