Classic Old-Time Music

This collection of old-time social and instrumental string-band music spotlights instrumental prowess. Old-time music features playing styles that pre-date bluegrass, emerging from the string band tradition stretching back to the early years of United States history. Both African-American and Anglo-American ingredients are at its core, the banjo having African origins, the fiddle European. Some of the most revered sources of old-time roots music -- Dock Boggs, Roscoe Holcomb, Wade Ward, Tommy Jarrell, and more are heard playing in their original styles.