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Old-time music is a genre of North American folk music. ... It is sometimes referred to as "old-timey" [8] or "mountain music" [9] by long-time practitioners.
Bluegrass developed in the 1940s from a mixture of several types of music, including old-time, country, and blues, but particularly mountain string bands, which in turn evolved from banjo-and-fiddle outfits. [43] The music's creation is often credited to Bill Monroe and his band, the Blue Grass Boys.
[2] AllMusic wrote of the work, "Its general mood appears to reflect the smoky majesty of the Appalachians themselves and does not devolve into imitations of the music associated with that region (i.e., bluegrass and old-timey mountain music); although some lip service is paid to Native American cultures that once inhabited this region during ...
In Southwest Virginia, you’ll find dozens of small mountain towns, but for old-time mountain music, the place to go is Galax, a quaint town of fewer than 7,000 residents.It’s been called the ...
Some call it "mountain music" or "old-timey" or "fiddle tunes." It's the heart of this retreat and the mission of the Nashville Old-Time String Band Association: ". . . to preserve, promote, and perform old-time string band music."
J.E.Mainer's Mountaineers, Liner notes, Old Timey LP-106 Tony Russell, Bob Pinson, Country Music Records: A Discography, 1921-1942 , Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum, 2004 Wiley and Zeke, The Morris Brothers
Bill Hensley, Mountain Fiddler, Asheville, North Carolina. Old time (also spelled old-time or oldtime) fiddle is the style of American fiddling found in old-time music.Old time fiddle tunes are derived from European folk dance forms such as the jig, reel, breakdown, schottische, waltz, two-step, and polka.
The first singing that I ever heard was old-timey meeting songs, and these old songs like I sing, and these frolics where they get together and pick and sing and drink a little. Maybe a "lassie makin'," or maybe a corn shuckin', maybe a gallon hid in the corn pile. They'd go ahead an' shuck into that—pick the banjo, have a dance.