OLD HAT ENT.

Blues and barbecue are natural companions, both saturated with down-home flavor. Here are 24 tracks of vintage blues that celebrate the joys of eating meat, with plenty of sly nods to other sensual...

Cluck Old Hen / Various Cluck Old Hen / Various CD1. Chicken Reel 2. Rooster Blues 3. Riley's Hen-House Door 4. Chicken 5. Corn Dodger No. 1 Special 6. The Crowing Rooster 7. Turkey Buzzard Blues 8...

During the 1920s and 1930s, many African American musicians were still rooted in string-band traditions of the previous century, an era when the fiddle was king. Yet even the best of those players...

Against a backdrop of factory whistles, clattering machines and low-wage labor, Piedmont textile workers in North Carolina created a soul-stirring sound that laid the foundation for modern country...

Here is a collection of extremely rare early American music. Before movies, radio and television, the traveling Medicine Shows brought entertainment to America. Flamboyant pitch doctors roamed the...

Here are 24 tracks of rare music by the fiddlers, string bands and family singers of the "Tar Heel State," recorded 1926-1936 during a pivotal decade of unparalleled artistic achievement. You'll hear...

The guitar gets the ink, but the violin was hugely important in the development of early blues, it's crying vibratos and sliding notes creating a dramatic and soulful sound. Here are 24 examples of...