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Cecil Sharp in America

http://www.mustrad.org.uk/articles/sharp.htm

Article about his tour collecting Appalachian folk music.

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Cowboy Songs

http://lonehand.com/cowboy_songs.htm

A reference library of classic western and cowboy songs.

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Dr. Horsehair

http://www.drhorsehair.com

Recordings and banjo instruction books in the modern-day clawhammer banjo or frailing style and the old-time minstrel banjo stroke style.

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Halcyon Days Music

http://www.halcyondaysmusic.com

Midi music collection of early American music of the 19th Century and early 20th Century, complete with scans of sheet music covers and lyrics.

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Historic American Sheet Music

http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/hasm/

The Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University: Major collection of sheet music; digital images of 3042 pieces published in the US, 1850-1920.

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Hutchinson Family Singers

http://www.geocities.com/unclesamsfarm/hutchinsons.htm

Biographies and portraits of members of this popular vocal group.

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John Henry - The Steel Driving Man

http://www.ibiblio.org/john_henry/henry.html

Analysis of songs featuring the folk hero, including lyrics, sound files, and background.

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Sons of Dixie

http://www.sonsofdixie.homestead.com/

Information on this vocal quartet who sings songs popular in the American South during the Civil War.

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Southern Horizon

http://www.southern-horizon.com/

This Civil War-era band plays period arrangements on antique instruments.

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Till Family Rock Band

http://www.michaeltill.com

Brief illustrated history of late-19th-century "rock band" (playing on stone xylophones).

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