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Dime Store Radio Video Artifacts and History of Country, Bluegrass and Mountain Music. DAILY ARCHIVES IN MY STORIES! Curated by Paul Dufrene

10/05/2026

West Virginia old-time fiddler Clark Kessinger playing "Leather Britches."
Captured by Alan Lomax at the Newport Folk Festival in Newport, Rhode Island.
Video courtesy of youtube page!

10/02/2026

Spend It All l is a 43-minute documentary directed by Les Blank and Skip Gerson that vividly captures the vibrant, unvarnished lifestyle, food, and music of the French-speaking Cajun community in Southwest Louisiana.

Werner Herzog has talked about using this as inspiration for a scene in Stroszek (1977), after asking Les Blank if he could steal it.

09/27/2026

The most popular husband-and-wife singing duo during gospel’s golden age was Sullivan and Lola Pugh, better known as the Consolers. Their folkloric style combined elementary tunes with sentimental messages that expanded the thematic content of gospel lyrics.

09/22/2026

Where have you heard this yodel?

"Way Out There" by Sons of the Pioneers

09/20/2026

Alison Krauss - lead vocals, fiddle
Barry Bales - bass
Alison Brown - guitar, banjo
Tim Stafford - guitar, mandolin
Adam Steffey - mandolin

09/17/2026

In the game, children stand in a circle while one child in the center acts out the lyrics, using a blanket or a piece of cloth to pass comfort and love to the next person.
"Little Johnny Brown, spread your comfort down...""Fold it up corner to corner...""Take it to your love..."

09/15/2026

"Angel Band" is an American gospel music song. It reflects on a person who is dying and asks an angel to "bear me away on your snow white wings to my immortal home.".

09/13/2026

Mouth Music demonstrates the distinctive modes of the human voice, the most influential of all musical instruments, takes on in southern folk music and folk culture. These modes can span traditional a ca****la performance styles as well as unique expressive vocal forms that have evolved as part of daily life, work, and play: hollerin’, jump-rope rhymes, “eephing,” nonsense songs, auctioneering, drill sergeant’s patter and others. Directed by Sol Korine(Harmony’s father!).

Link to FULL short documentary in our story!

09/10/2026

The television special, titled Waylon Jennings and Friends: The Door Is Always Open, featured a legendary lineup of country stars, including Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, George Jones, and Hank Williams Jr.

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