American tintype portrait of a white banjo player and a black fiddle player, c. 1860-1880. Source: Sotheby’s.

COWGIRL. Prairie May. 19th century photograph.

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Guitarist Robbie Robertson helped to change music history with Bob Dylan’s backing group the Band. He remembers how the ‘brotherhood’ ended in heroin addiction and self-destruction

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This 1938 postcard is from the collection of Jim Linderman, who created and maintains the blog Old Time Religion as a catalog of all the vintage religious literature, advertisements, photographs, t…

“Benjamin Deane” is a classic example of a confessional ballad, with a man in prison lamenting how he came to be there: bootlegging, adultery, and murder.

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