They’re capturing the sounds and songs of the region in video and text.
Old-time, bluegrass, folk, just call it roots music in the mountains. It’s the unique musical styles and songs that have survived on the back porches, at the Saturday night get-togethers and in the postage stamp communities of the Appalachian Mountains of East Tennessee and North Carolina.
The first installment is on fiddler Charlie Acuff. Each month will bring a new musician. Bookmark the page! Amazing stuff.
2 replies on “Digging up roots”
I appreciate this post…I love the old music, especially clips with the ol’ boys playing them.
Great subject!
I do too. Wish I could take credit for the idea. But it tain’t true.