More and more people who have access to recordings of the old people playing and talking about their music are making those recordings available on the Web. Here are a few that I think are worth listening to:

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• Delbert Hughes, from the Vintage Fiddlers Oral History Project at Morehead University

• Henry Reed from Fiddle Tunes of the old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection at the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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