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IUMA [Internet Underground Music Archive
Jelly American music zine.
The Texas Music Office: The Texas Music Office serves as the information clearinghouse and promotion office for the Texas music industry. This is a really, really, really good page -- beautifully organized and packed full of resources. Check here for everything from band phone numbers (The Texas Talent Registry) to music copyright info to colleges offering degress in music. If you're looking for any kind of information on Texas music, go here first!
The Austin Music Web: Thorough and well-organized list of links for Austin musicians, clubs & venues, record labels, record Stores, media and more.

Oklahoma Opry
Live from Oklahoma city, the Opry features local and southwest country and gospel performers every Saturday night.
Ronnie Mack's Barn Dance

Bluegrass Now: Web presence for the "upstart" bluegrass magazine, with some articles online. A great magazine!
Bluegrass Unlimited: The oldest and longest-running bluegrass magazine. Few articles are reproduced here, but there's lots of information about the magazine, and contact information for its editors and writers.
Bluegrass World: Comprehensive list of Websites of interest to bluegrassers, including instruments, supplies, festival listings, venues, bands -- and, for the touring bluegrass band, helpful RV and automotive sites .
The Bluegrass / Acoustic Music Web Ring: A bluegrass web ring! This address gives you information on how to join, and has a link to the member list -- 203 at last count.
Cybergrass: The Web's Bluegrass magazine. Look here for profiles of Bill Monroe, Del McCoury, Alison Krauss, J.D. Crowe, and many others.
iBluegrass: A big, and growing, bluegrass e-zine. Excellent site, with wide coverage and deep access to resources such as bluegrass organizations, radio, jams, venues, festivals, and more.
The International Bluegrass Music Association: The international organization for the furtherance of bluegrass music. Includes a history of the organization, a list of its services, and information on how to join.

Old Time Music Home Page: Excellent site with news, an Old Time Fiddler's Hall of Fame, a discography of old time music by Chirps Smith, a musician directory, addresses for catalogs specializing in old time music, and lots of good links.; Now on the 'Net! Excellent source for information about old time music, edited by singer Alice Gerrard.
Brandywine Friends of Old Time Music: Promotes and sponsors bluegrass and old time music in the Wilmington, Delaware area.
Julie Mangin's clogging page: Julie Mangin, clogger and banjo picker, maintains pages devoted to old time music and dance at her personal website, Chez Julie..
Old Time Music: A useful list of links to sites about old time music, sponsored by Jubilee Community Arts of Knoxville, Tennessee

Rockabilly Central: Your one-stop source for rockabilly info and links.
Rockabilly Hall of Fame: A new, internet-based Hall of Fame, this is also a resource page for everything rockabilly. Links to bands, reviews, calendars, news, guides to record shops and lots more.
The Originals: A gallery of Fifties rock and rollers. Includes, among many others, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, the Everly Brothers, Gene Vincent, Buddy Holly -- and Elvis, of course!

Folkmusic.org: A huge compendium of information about folk music in all its variations. Some excellent radio information here.
Dirty Linen: The focus here is folk, but since folk strays into country, so does Dirty Linen.
New Acoustic Music: A site devoted to New Acoustic Music -- by the likes of Leo Kottke, Russ Barenburg, David Grier, Tut Taylor, and The Tony Rice Unit

The Encyclopedia of Cajun Culture: A good place to start looking -- not just for music but for food, language, and history.

Delta Snake Blues News: Excellent on-line blues zine.
King Biscuit Time: Blues Page with a lot of artist write-ups (with sound files), history, essays on blueswomen, country blues, Chicago blues, San Francisco Bay Area blues, and more.

BizarGrass News: NASA deploys the first banjo into orbit... Spike Lee directs a blockbuster bio-pic of Lester Flatt starring Leonardo DeCaprio as Lester Flatt and Tommy Lee Jones as Earl Scruggs... 12 Folks overdoese on viagra at the Bob Dole Bluegrass Festival... Now that's bluegrass news you can use!
The Random Bad Bluegrass Band Namer: Hit the button and get a bad bluegrass band name!