FolkLib Index - Folk Music Periodicals

          Subscription Information, Discographies, and Home Pages for printed and on-line Magazines in the fields of Folk Music, Bluegrass, Old-Time Music, Acoustic Blues, and Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar.
          Note: the only E-Zines listed on this page are those that never existed in print. When a print magazine ceases publication and screws its readers who have no access to the Internet by converting itself into an E-Zine, my link to their site will be deleted. - Body Count: No Depression, Bluegrass Now

Magazine Subscription Databases: - Indexed by Title - What's New - Acknowledgments

All listed magazines fully indexed, except as noted.

• Acoustic Guitar Periodicals

• BluesWEB [Archive] - "Blues Publications" [Archive] - "Harmonica Publications" [Archive]
• Ceolas - "Guide to celtic music publications" (Gerard Manning)
• Bowed Electricity (fiddle) - Magazines (John Schussler)
• Barb Diederich's Handy Bluegrass Links - Magazines
• folkmusic.org - Media: Print  
• Taxi: The Independent A&R Leader - Links: Magazines

Listed magazines only partially indexed, i.e. Folk Music related magazines only.

• Argus Music Searcher (Knut Tore Breivik)
• Guitar Notes - Guitar Publications (Jason Nieh)
• Twangin'! Magazine - Magazines and Fanzines
• Wisconsin Music Archives - Online Journals and Newsletters

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(language) - magazines not published in English.
(on-line) - magazines not published in printed form.
(C and W) - Country and Western magazines which occasionally have information about Folk/Bluegrass/Country crossover artists like Mary-Chapin Carpenter, Nanci Griffith, Emmylou Harris, Ricky Skaggs, Bill Monroe, Alison Krauss and others.

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• Acoustic Guitar - Home Page - Wikipedia - Acoustic Guitar on CD [Archive]
• Acoustic Musician - Home Page #1 [Archive] - Home Page #2 [not updated since Dec. 1999]
• Acoustic Scene, The - Home Page
• American Harmonica Newsletter
• American Lutherie - Home Page
• American Musical Instrument Society, The
• ARSC Journal (Association for Recorded Sound Collections) - Home Page / other links
• Atlantic Celtic Quarterly, The - Ceolas
• Audio
• Australian Songwriter, The
• Autoharp Clearinghouse - Cyberpluckers [Archive] - Cyberpluckers Home Page
• Autoharp Quarterly - Home Page - Cyberpluckers [Archive]
• Autoharpoholic 1980 - 1993 (ISSN: 0736-3796) ( Becky Blackley & Michael King)

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• Banjo Newsletter, The - Home Page / Subscriptions - Ceolas
• BANJOVIA
• Be Glad the Song Has No Ending ( Incredible String Band fanzine) - Home Page
• Black Music Research Journal
• Block - (Dutch)
• Blue Suede News - Home Page
• Bluegrass by the Bay (CA) - Home Page
• Bluegrass Canada
• Bluegrass Chronicle
• Bluegrass Music News - Home Page - Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America (SPBGMA)
• Bluegrass Music Profiles (KY) - Home Page
• Bluegrass Now - May 2008 (final edition)
• Bluegrass Unlimited - Home Page - Wikipedia - Reviews by Archie Warnock III
• Blues Access - Home Page (1-02-2002: Cary Wolfson, former Editor, ceased publication Winter 2002, #48)
• Blues News, The - Home Page
• Blues Revue (Quarterly / "BRQ") - Home Page
• Blues and Rhythm: The Gospel Truth - Home Page - Wikipedia
• Blues and Soul Magazine
            3-30-2009: magazine presumably out of print. The name is now used by a site with no connection to a paper magazine.
• BluesSpeak - Home Page
• Bridge, The - Home Page Guitar Teacher Quarterly - (on-line)
• British Blues Reviews
• Bro Nevez - Ceolas

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• Canadian Folk Music Bulletin
• Cape Breton's Magazine - Home Page - Ceolas
• Cash Box Magazine - Home Page - (C and W)
• Celtic Connection, The - Ceolas
  (all info deleted by Ceolas. I can find nothing else about this periodical anywhere else on the Web)
• Central Texas Bluegrass Bulletin
• Classical Mandolin Society of America Newsletter - Ceolas
• The Clogger - Clogging Page
• Common Times - Home Page, Illinois quarterly
• Concertina and Squeezebox
• Cornstalk Gazette
• Country America - (C and W)
• Country Music Magazine - (C and W) (Russ and Helen Barnard) [started ca. 1973, ceased publication ca. 6/2003]
• Country Standard Time - Home Page - Wikipedia - Twangin'!
• Cumberland County Rag
• Current Biography - The H.W. Wilson Company: Current Biography Yearbook 2003-2015
        EBSCO database: Current Biography Illustrated
        The H.W. Wilson Company [Archive] [a deleted list of every yearbook 1940-2007, including ISBN numbers for all editions 1980-2007]
        (Have 1992-1997 Yearbooks, purchased at an Oshkosh Public Library book sale)
• Cybergrass - The Internet Bluegrass Music Magazine - Home Page - (on-line)

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• Daily Clog - Twangin'!
            http://www.radix.net/~jmangin/clogging/dlyclg.html - ceased publication, August 1997
• Delta Snake Blues - Home Page - (on-line)
• Devil's Box, The - Ceased publication with the Winter 2000 issue (Steve Davis, ed.)

  Fiddle magazine published quarterly by the Tennessee Folklore Society, and the official publication of the - North American Fiddlers Association

• Dirty Linen - Home Page [Archive] - Wikipedia - Ceolas -- CD Sampler Discography - Bibliography
• Discover Music Magalogue - (Ian Shaw)
• Discoveries - Home Page
• The Double Toe Times - Clogging Page
• Down Beat - (Have 1978,1980-1992, purchased at UW-Madison book sale)
• Dulcimer Player News - Home Page - Bibliography

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• English Dance and Song
• Entertainment Weekly
• Ethnomusicology Research Digest - Home Page

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• Fast Folk - Wikipedia - FolkLib Discography
• Fiddler Magazine - Home Page - Ceolas
• Fingerstyle Guitar - Home Page
• Fireball Mail (WI) - Bi-monthly newsletter of the Southern Wisconsin Bluegrass Music Association, Inc. (SWBMAI) - Bibliography
• Flatpicking Magazine - Home Page
• Folk Alliance Newsletter - Home Page - The Newsletter Archives
• Folkfare
• Folk Harp Journal - Home Page - Index / alternate - on the European Harp Home Page [Archive]
• Folk-Michael - (German)
• Folknotes
• Folk Odyssey - Home Page
• Folk Rag, The - Home Page
• Folk Roots (fRoots Magazine) - Home Page - Wikipedia - Ceolas
• Folksblatt - Home Page - Ceolas
• Folk Times - Kris Coppieters
• FolkWorld - Home Page (available in English and German versions) - (on-line)
• freefolk.com - Home Page - (on-line)

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• Global Notes
• Goldmine - Home Page
• Guitar for the Practicing Musician
• Guitar Magazine - Home Page
• Guitarmaker
• Guitar Player - Wikipedia - FolkLib Index Discography

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• Harp Almanac, The - Home Page (published annually)
• Harp Column, The - Home Page - (Hugh Brock, ed.) - (Kimberly Rowe, pub.)
• Harp Therapy Journal, The - Home Page - on the European Harp Home Page
• Heartsong Review - Home Page
• Heritage Music Review, The
• Hornpipe, The - Home Page - (on-line)
• Hot Press - Home Page - Wikipedia - Ceolas

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• Ice Magazine
• Intermountain Acoustic Musician - Home Page / alternate (Tim Morrison)
• The International Harp Journal - on the European Harp Home Page - (Doris Diedrich)
• Irish Music - Home Page - Ceolas

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• Jazz Review, The (WI) - http://www.jazzreview.com/ - Home Page deleted [ WAMI Nominee/Winner]
• The Jongleur (WI) - newsletter of the UW-Madison Wisconsin Music Archives at the Mills Music Library
• Journal of Country Music - Country Music Hall of Fame - (C and W)

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• Kountry Korral - (C and W) - (Swedish)

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• Leak, The - FolkLib Index Discography
• Living Blues - Home Page (Image Site Only!)
• Living Tradition, The - Ceolas
• Local Blend - Home Page - by Wendy Vickers (formerly: Local Folk)

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• Mandocrucian Digest, The - Ceolas
• Maple Roots Online - Home Page
• Melody Maker
• Mississippi Saxophone (harmonica)
• Muse Magazine - Home Page - (on-line) - (The Journal of Women in Music)
• Music City News - Home Page - (Mike Jones) - (C and W)
• Music City Texas
• Music Matters Review - Home Page
• Musician - Argus Music Searcher

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• New England Folk Almanac
• New Folk Sounds - Home Page - (Dutch)
• No Depression - Wikipedia - September 1995 - May-June 2008, May 2015 -

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• Old Time Country - (C and W)
• Old-Time Herald, The - Home Page - Bibliography
• Option - Argus Music Searcher
• Oshkosh Magazine - Bibliography

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• Performing Songwriter, The - Home Page - (Lydia Hutchinson) - Bibliography
• Philadelphia Folk Song Society Newsletter
• Pickin' Magazine - Article by Sean Barry (published: 1973-1979)
• Popular Folk Music Today
• Pulse (Tower Records)

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• Queensland Folk

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• Radio Regulars - Home Page [Archive] - by Wendy Vickers (Published: 1991-1996)
• Free Radio Press - Home Page (at RootsWorld) - (on-line) (formerly: Radio Resistor's Bulletin)
• Record Collector (U.K.) - Home Page
• Record Research (1955-1992) - Magazine Index [Archive] (Malcolm Rockwell / Tyrone Settlemier)
• Rhythms
• Rick's Cafe (WI) - Home Page [Archive] (Rick Tvedt)
• Rock 'n' Reel - Ceolas
• Rolling Stone
• RootsWorld - Home Page - (on-line)

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• Schwann Spectrum - Home Page / About Schwann / Schwann Opus - inSide - Schwann [Archive]
            ca. 2002, Schwann was bought out by Alliance Entertainment Group which promptly disbanded the company and fired all its employees, deliberately destroying its 50 year publishing history.
• SingerSongWriter
• Sing Out! - Home Page - Wikipedia - discography - (Mark D. Moss)
• SongLink International - Home Page - (David Stark)
• Songwriter's Alert - http://online.music-city.com/sw-alert.html - Home Page deleted - (C and W) - (on-line)
• Songwriters Musepaper
• Soundboard - Home Page
• Sound Check ("Outta" Sights and Sounds) - (Tay Mueller)
• Sound Post - Home Page
            quarterly journal of the - Hardanger Fiddle Association of America
• Sounding Strings - http://www.harp.net/SndStrng/SndStrng.htm - Home Page deleted
• Sound Waves - Home Page - (on-line)
• Spin - Home Page
• Stacy OnLine - http://online.music-city.com/stacy.html - Home Page deleted - (C and W) - (on-line)
• Step-In-Time - http://www.oe-pages.com/ARTS/Dancing/stepntime/ - Home Page deleted - Clogging Page [Archive]
• Stereo Review
• Stirrings - Home Page
• Strings

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• Tell it Like it is (WI) - newsletter of the Wisconsin Blues Society (WBS) - Bibliography
• Texas Fiddler, The
• Traditional Music Line, The - Home Page (1/1987 - 12/2004) [ceased publication] - Stephanie Ledgin, former Editor
• Treoir - Home Page - Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann [Archive] - Ceolas
• Twangin'! - Home Page - Web Issue #1 [Archive] - #2 [Archive] - #3 [Archive] - #4 [Archive]

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• Utne Reader - Home Page

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• The Valley Scene (aka "The Scene") (WI) - Home Page - Bibliography (local monthly Northeast Wisconsin music newspaper)
• Variety
• Vibe
• Victory Review, The - Home Page

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• Wisconsin School Musician, The - Home Page
• Women: For and About Women in Northeast Wisconsin - Bibliography
            Women, 1486 Kenwood Center, Menasha 54952
• Women in Bluegrass Bulletin - Home Page Editor: Murphy Henry
• Woodwind Quarterly

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• Zassafras Music News

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• 5-String Quarterly - Home Page [Archive]

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• 78 Quarterly

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• About.com - Link Page (see Magazine Subscription Databases:)
• Ceolas - "Guide to celtic music publications" (Gerard Manning)
• Fiddle Hangout - Magazines/Newsletters (Eric Schlange)
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