Nathan Salsburg

Visions of Coahoma

By Nathan Salsburg

Sundown Man

By Nathan Salsburg

Got to Ease Up On

By the time folklorist Alan Lomax visited St. Simons with a stereo tape-machine in 1959, Bessie Jones and many of her songs had become fundamental to the ensemble.

By Nathan Salsburg

That Look in His Eyes at 4:05

By Nathan Salsburg

“Camp Nelson Blues”

Eighteen years separated Jim (b. 1872) and Joe (b. 1890), and the brothers would have commanded a broad repertoire that likely incorporated pop songs of the day, rags and cakewalks, banjo breakdowns...

By Nathan Salsburg

“Wondrous Love” and “Pretty Polly”

It might also serve to commend the music that Glyn Morris and the Pine Mountain singers made to the tradition at large: a reimagining of a reimagining of that tradition.

By Nathan Salsburg