Bluegrass Jam Along/Celebrating the Legacy of Rich-R-Tone/Folk Star with Ted Olson

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Celebrating the Legacy of Rich-R-Tone/Folk Star with Ted Olson
Podcast Bluegrass Jam Along
Date 2026-02-25
About Ted Olson
Length Expression error: Unexpected round operator. min
Audio Audio file

My guest this week is Ted Olson, professor of Appalachian Studies at East Tennessee State University.Ted joins me to celebrate the Rich-R-Tone record label and it's offshoot Folk Star. Rich-R-Tone was founded in 1946 by James Hobart Stanton who, in Ted's words, "was probably single-handedly the most important documentarian of Appalachian music."Ted has extensively researched Stanton and the Rich_R-Tone label for a project he co-produced for Bear Family Records - The Rich-R-Tone/Folk Star Story:...