Other writings in other places:
PAVO, 2009-2010. Most of the following writings for PAVO Magazine are back online, here at Lady Muleskinner Press: “20 Birmingham Songs” // “Hank Penny’s Cowboy Swing” // “Greencup is Dead: A Eulogy” // “Birmingham Jazzman: Frank ‘Doc’ Adams,” Parts One and Two // “Kirk Withrow’s Cigar Box Guitars.”
“When I Say Get It: A Brief History of the Boogie,” Southern Cultures’ Fall 2009 music issue.
“Kasper ‘Stranger’ Malone: In His Own Words,” The Old-Time Herald, August-September 2009.
“Eight Hands Up! Square Dance Calls by Black Musicians on 78 Records,” the Old-Time Herald, Spring 2005.
Album reviews and artist bios, The All Music Guide. Including, among others, these:
The Memphis Jug Band: State of Tennessee Blues
Grayson and Whitter: Complete Recorded Works
The Rose Grew Round the Briar: Early American Rural Love Songs, Vol. 1
Various Artists: Sinners and Saints (1926-1931)
“Bluegrass Meltdown: Mountain Music, Rock and Roll, and Family Tradition in the Music of Ralph Lewis and the Sons of Ralph,” the North Carolina Folklore Journal, Fall-Winter 2004.
“Guns and Banjos: A Visit with Clyde Barksdale,” Bluegrass Unlimited, April 2004.
“Looking for Railroad Bill: On the Trail of an Alabama Badman,” Southern Cultures, Fall 2003.
Speak: An Oral History Magazine for Western North Carolina, Fall 2001 (by Burgin Mathews, Colleen Cook, and Doug Kelley).