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  • Sepia Tones: Exploring Black Appalachian Music podcast

    March 18, 2021 | by John Lawless

    The Great Smoky Mountain Association has announced the launch of a new podcast as a part of their Smoky Mountain Air audio options. Titled Sepia Tones: Exploring Black Appalachian Music, this six-part series chronicles the experience of freed and escaped

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  • We Shall All Be Reunited: Revisiting the Bristol Sessions, 1927-1928

    August 11, 2020 | by John Lawless

    Fans of the history of American folk and country music, the very sounds that led to the development of bluegrass, have another project to look forward to this month. Bear Family Records is preparing to release We Shall All Be Reunited -

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  • 90th anniversary of the Johnson City Sessions this weekend

    October 14, 2019 | by John Lawless

    This weekend, on October 19, Johnson City, TN will be celebrating the 90th anniversary of the Johnson City Sessions, among the first commercial recordings of traditional mountain music ever made, captured by the Columbia Records company in October of 1928.

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  • ETSU faculty responds to No Depression article

    July 7, 2017 | by John Lawless

    One of the longstanding traditions of artistic and literary publications is friendly - and at times, not-so-friendly - debates about matters that concern practitioners and connoisseurs of the arts. In the hey day of British literary magazines, it was quite

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  • Tennessee Senate honors On Top Of Old Smoky

    April 20, 2017 | by John Lawless

    The State Senate of Tennessee has been plenty busy this month sharing congratulations with bluegrass and old time music artists. In addition to this morning's proclamation honoring The Farm Hands, they issued a resolution earlier in April celebrating the award

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  • Blind Alfred Reed: Appalachian Visionary

    March 30, 2016 | by John Curtis Goad

    Ted Olson, a professor of Appalachian Studies at East Tennessee State University, has become known as a go-to person for information on the early recorded music of northeast Tennessee and southwest Virginia. Some music fans may recognize his name as

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