| For beginning guitar players and others interested in folk music:
- Guitar tablature; a good way for non-music readers to learn songs.
- Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Collections; old file, only in text form, but lots of good info.
- Seattle Folklore Society's Web site contains everything you need to know about Seattle's folk music scene - where to go, where and when to set your radio dial, who's hot and where to get the CDs, and much more. Indispensable!
- Bill Markwick's comprehensive folk music glossary, "A Folkie's Dictionary," is a masterpiece of data gathering. The author has done a fabulous job of collating information about folk music and presenting it in an entertaining, readily accessible form.
- The Solo Performer is another well-constructed site, full of useful info for acoustic guitar players and songwriters.
- More great stuff on Harmony Central's list of guitar resources.
- An index of performers is really handy, too; can't tell the players without a scorecard. The same site has a fairly comprehensive discography, "Folk Music on Recordings."
- The Online Guitar Archive (OLGA) has undergone several permutations, but it's still filled with lyrics and tablature for many classic folk and blues songs. Unfortunately, industry greed is slowly but surely strangling it. So, boycott EMI! Better yet, send them a nastygram to let 'em know why.
- Another good site for acoustic guitar lore, songs, and tools is Adrian Tout's Acoustic Guitar Resources.
- If you're a folkie or blues person looking for lyrics to traditional songs, look in the Mudcat Cafe's Digital Tradition Folk Song Database.
- I love the blues in general. The Cascade Blues Association is a good site to check out for all sorts of info including pictures and sound clips.
- RootsWorld is a great place to get world/folk music CDs. It's run by Cliff Furnald, who has been a pillar of the southern Connecticut folk music community for over 20 years.
- (Update: Looks like NMPA won its fight with the International Lyrics Server by co-opting it. Seems they were afraid people might not buy copies of 35-year old records! More evidence of the traditional music industry running scared from the Internet.) The Lyrics Server lists mostly folk music --- largely from the Sixties --- but is nicely laid out and a good resource for aging Boomers looking to recreate their youth.
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