Richard K. Spottswood - Other Works

Other Works

• “Alan Lomax” (obituary), Bluegrass Unlimited, September 2002, 21.

• “Bill and Ted's Excellent Discography,” VJM’s Jazz & Blues Mart 151 (Autumn 2008), 5-6.

• “Bill Monroe—An Appreciation,” Bluegrass Unlimited, January 1997, 16.

• “Bill Monroe—Blue Moon of Kentucky,” Bluegrass Unlimited, June 2003, 81.

• “The Birth of the Blast,” Guitar Player, April 1995, 63-69.

• “Buzz Busby” (obituary), Bluegrass Unlimited, March 2003, 16.

• “Caribbean and South American Recordings,” in Lost Sounds (by Tim Brooks). University of Illinois Press, 2004, 522-530.

• “The Commercial Recordings of Charlie Monroe,” Bluegrass Unlimited, May 1969, 3-6.

• “The Curious Ancestry of ‘Midnight on the Stormy Deep’,” Bluegrass Unlimited, July 2012, 44-45.

• “David Medoff: A Case Study in Interethnic Popular Culture,” American Music, vol. 3, no. 2 (Autumn 1985), 261-276 (with Mark Slobin)

• “Earl Scruggs and the Sound of Genius,” Bluegrass Unlimited, June 2012, 26-32

• The Encyclopedia of Country Music (Oxford, 1998, 2d ed., 2012) (Several articles)

• The Encyclopedia of the Blues (Routledge, 2006) (Several articles)

• “Ethnic Music and Popular Style in America,” in Folk Music and Modern Sound, edited by William Ferris and Mary L. Hart, University Press of Mississippi, 1982, 60-70.

• “Forty Years and Counting,” Bluegrass Unlimited, July 2006, 42-44

• “Further Notes on 'Orange Blossom Special',” Bluegrass Unlimited, September 2008, 10-11

• “Guitar on 78s and Cylinders: A Survey of Pioneering Efforts,” Victrola and 78 Journal, Winter 1996, 11-17

• “The Gouge,” in Annual Review of Jazz Studies 12 . Scarecrow Press, 2004, 135-145

• “Gouges, Vamps, Zulus and Scronches and Where They’ve Been Hiding,” VJM’s Jazz & Blues Mart 115 (Autumn 1999), 3-4.

• “Gouges, Vamps, Zulus and Scronches and Where They’ve Been Hiding, Part Two” VJM’s Jazz & Blues Mart 116 (Winter 1999), 4-5.

• “Hobart Smith: In Sacred Trust,” Banjo Newsletter, vol. 33, no. 1 (November 2005), 10-14

• “John Duffey” (obituary), Bluegrass Unlimited (November 1996), 16

• “John Duffey Takes No Prisoners,” Bluegrass Unlimited (July 2006), 48

• “Lonnie Johnson—The Gennett Mystery Revealed at Last,” Joslin’s Jazz Journal, vol. 20, no. 2 (May 2001), 4. Revised version in Starr Gennett News, vol. VIII, issue II (Spring 2010).

• “OKeh Mysteries – Blue Labels and Beyond,” VJM’s Jazz & Blues Mart 153 (Spring 2009), 6.

• “Old-Time Music and Copyright Laws” (with Tim Brooks), Old-Time Herald, vol. 11, no. 12 (September 2009), 8-10.

• “Rich-R’-Tone, Mutual and Blue Ridge: Histories and Inventories” (with David Sax and Pete Kuykendall), Bluegrass Unlimited, February 2005, 24-33.

• “We Ain’t ‘Fraid Nobody: Decca Calypsos in the 1930s,” ARSC Journal, vol. 31, no. 2 (Fall 2000), 224-243.

• “When the Wolf Knocked on Victor’s Door,” 78 Quarterly, vol. 1, no. 5 (1990), 64-77.

• “Women and the Blues,” in Nothing But the Blues (Lawrence Cohn, ed.). Abbeville, 1994, 87-105.