FolkLib Index
    - Stone County and Mountain View, Arkansas Music Resources

      This page lists Music Resources for Stone County Arkansas, and its county seat, the city of Mountain View, Arkansas ("Folk Music Capital of the World").

Folk Music of Mountain View, Arkansas (home page)
Arkansas specific books and other printed matter / Web sites

Resources:

• Mountain View, Arkansas music venues
• Books:
  • {SrcD} - #qi - Phillips, Freda Cruse PhD.   {A} - cover scans
          Voices of Our People: in every life there is a story: The Vanishing Ozarks, Volume 1, 2009, 202 p., ISBN-10: ?, ISBN-13: 978-0-9842111-0-4, LC: 2009-935677, UPC: 9-780984-211104

  • {SrcE} - #sv - Phillips, Freda Cruse PhD.   {A} - cover scans
          Places of Our People: behind every person there is a place: The Vanishing Ozarks, Volume 2, 2011, 242 p., ISBN 098421111X, ISBN-13: 978-0-9842111-1-1, LC: 2011-905637, UPC: 9-780984-211104
        Places of Our People Blog)

  • {SrcF} - Phillips, Freda Cruse PhD.
          Music of Our People: The Vanishing Ozarks, Volume 3, 201?
        "will feature traditional and current musicmakers of Stone County"
        Nikki Lee Atwell Foundation: News & Events
        Freda Cruse Phillips at Wikipedia (aka Freda Cruse Atwell)
        Stone County: A forgotten past, 11-26-2009 article in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
        The Vanishing Ozarks by Freda Cruse-(Phillips)-Hardison

  • {SrcG} - #qj - Stone County 4-H Council   {A} - cover scans
          The Faces of Rackensack, 1972, 86 p. (unnumbered), (2nd printing 10/1972), no ISBN, LC or UPC, ASIN: B0037T63O8 {A}
        Index for "The Faces of Rackensack"

  • {SrcH} - #qh - Beisswenger, Drew & Gordon McCann.   {A} - cover scans
          Mel Bay Presents Ozarks Fiddle Music
        Index for "Mel Bay Presents Ozarks Fiddle Music"

  • #sx - Cochran, Robert.   {A} - cover scans
          "Our Own Sweet Sounds: A Celebration of Popular Music in Arkansas, 1st ed."
          Fayetteville, AR: The University of Arkansas Press
          1996, 120 p., ISBN: 1-55728-442-3 (hardcover), ISBN-13: 978-1-55728-442-6
          1-55728-443-1 (paperback), ISBN-13: 978-1-55728-443-3, LC: 1996-030210, UPC: 9-781557-284426
        Index for "Our Own Sweet Sounds, 1st ed."

  • #sw - Cochran, Robert.   {A} - cover scans
          "Our Own Sweet Sounds: A Celebration of Popular Music in Arkansas, 2nd ed."
          Fayetteville, AR: The University of Arkansas Press
          2005, 150 p., ISBN: 1-55728-793-7, ISBN-13: 978-1-55728-793-9, LC: 2004-028051, UPC: 9-781557-287939
        Index for "Our Own Sweet Sounds, 2nd ed."

  • #3i - Welky, Ali   & Mike Keckhaver   {A} - cover scans
          "Encyclopedia of Arkansas Music"
          Little Rock, AR: Butler Center Books
          2013, 242 p., ISBN: 1-935106-60-0, ISBN-13: 978-1-935106-60-9, LC: 2013-021174, UPC: 9-781935-106609
          "The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture (EOA) is a project of the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies at the Central Arkansas Library System (CALS) in Little Rock, Arkansas." The Encyclopedia's website, launched in 2006, is the source of every profiled entry in this book: - The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture
        Index for "Encyclopedia of Arkansas Music"

• Newspapers:
  • Stone County Leader, News Editor ( Lori Freeze) [Mountain View local weekly paper]

• Web Sites:
  • Arkansas Historical Association
  • Fiddlin' Arkansas
  • Mountain View, Arkansas [Archive] "official website" [site gone as of 4-01-2016]
  • Mountain View Bluegrass Festival
    Mountain View Music Stores:
    • Dulcimer Shoppe
          There is no site anywhere titled "The Dulcimer Shoppe". McSpadden mountain dulcimers are made inside the store.
    • Mellon's Country Store
    • Mountain View Music Store
  • Ozark Folk Center State Park / Music Groups [Archive]
  • Pick Mountain View
  • Rackensack Folklore Society / Past and Present / the Society's Facebook page
  • Stone County Historical Society & Stone County Museum
  • Stone County Library
        [aka Bessie Boehm Moore Stone County Library, Mountain View Public Library]
  • Music Theaters in Mountain View
  • Wikipedia: Mountain View, Arkansas / Music of Arkansas

• Concerts Attended:
  • 07-26-2012 - Jonathan Dowell, Tessa Dowell, Judy Klinkhammer, Ozark Folk Center, White Oak Theater, Mountain View, AR
  • 07-26-2012 - Larry Conger, Carolyn Carter, Roger Fountain Band, Herbin' League, Ozark Rhythm Cloggers, Wil Maring & Robert Bowlin, Ozark Folk Center Auditorium, Mountain View, AR
  • 07-27-2012 - Larry Conger, Ozark Folk Center, White Oak Theater, Mountain View, AR
  • 07-27-2012 - Jimmy Joe Sasser Band, Dave & Kathy, Jonathan Dowell, Lazy Goat Stringband, Bona Fide Stringband, Ozark Folk Center Auditorium, Mountain View, AR
  • 07-28-2012 - Harmony, Chinkypin, Mike McGee, Junior Fulks, Edwin Luther Auditorium, Stone County Museum, Mountain View, AR

  • 05-04-2013 - Brad Apple, Tim Crouch, Gary Rounds, Pam Setser, Brickshy's Backstreet Theater, Mountain View, AR
  • 05-05-2013 - Charlie Mink, Nellie Branscum, Alex Hilliker, Debra Hawks, Ron Taylor, George Bryan, others?, Jimmy Driftwood Music Barn, Mountain View, AR
  • 05-06-2013 - Rackensack Folklore Society potluck, meeting and jam including Charlie Mink, Nellie Branscum, Junior Fulks, Mary Park, others?, Jimmy Driftwood Music Barn, Mountain View, AR
  • 05-08-2013 - The Glover Family, Alex Hilliker, Ruby Pine (SP?), Woodsong, Ozark Folk Center Auditorium, Mountain View, AR
  • 05-09-2013 - Ruth Haynie & Charlie Mink / Roger Gardner & Friends (Gresham McMillan, Samuel Cobb, ? [piano, vocals] with Junior Fulks, / Honeysuckle / The Original Flat Hoof String Band (Mike Sutter, Gresham McMillan, Roger Fountain, Wes Kent, Jenny Sartain) / The Cobb Brothers (Nathan Cobb, Samuel Cobb, Roger Fountain, Jacob Schuller(SP?) (guitar), ? banjo), Ozark Folk Center Auditorium, Mountain View, AR
  • 05-10-2013 - Don Mellon, Jeb Murphy, Gresham McMillan, with Robin Harrell, Moon Mullins, Mellon's Hole in the Wall Theatre, Mountain View, AR
  • 05-11-2013 - Brad Apple, Brandon Apple; Harmony: (Mary Gillihan, Robert Gillihan, Dave Smith), Ozark Folk Center Auditorium, Mountain View, AR

  • 04-17-2015 Nellie Branscum, Debra Hawks, Bess Kelly, Charlie Mink, Gordon Parker, Mary Parker, others? not sure of correct names: John Berkee?, Jim Ingsdale? (guitar, vocals from MN), Jimmy Driftwood Music Barn, Mountain View, AR
  • 04-20-2015 Sibling Rivalry, Ozark Folk Center, Craft Village Music Pavilion, Mountain View, AR
  • 04-20-2015 Ozark Folk Center Auditorium, Mountain View, AR
        Odell Jackson, Mary Parker, George Spengler,
        The Upjumpers: (Crystal McCool, Jackie McCool, Lillyanne McCool, Rebecca Pool, Scott Pool, Shay Pool)
        Dave Smith
        Chinkypin: (Dave Branscum, Gresham McMillan, Pam Setzer, Kay Thomas, Unkle Dave)