This channel contains some of the favorite field recordings we made in the 1970s and 1980s of the old-time musicians we learned from, as well as some videos and recordings of Brad and Linda (Higginbotham) and associated bands. Some of these were originally posted by others. Please excuse the limitations of our recordings, our focus at the time was on learning to play rather than tune gathering or documentation. Thankfully there are now many great sources both on youtube (check out @whitetopmusic for example) as well as excellent website's like slippery hill. Anything we posted ourselves was originally ad-free but RU-vid changed their policy in Nov. 2020 and now ads have started appearing on non-monetized channels. We have no control over this nor do we receive royalties from our channel. Still, this is a great way to share music!
It's great that these videos were saved and are posted. I met Melvin around 1990 at Augusta and really liked him as well as his music. A gentleman and find musician.
The 1970s was such a great time in Bloomington for Old Time and Bluegrass. The Folklore Department at I.U. had a whole lot to do with the music scene at that time as so many musicians were students in the department.
