African American Music Trails, A collaboration between the North Carolina Arts Council, North Carolina Folklife Institute, and many musicians in the region to create a visitor’s guide to the heritage of African American music in Eastern North Carolina. Coauthored with Beverly Patterson and Michelle Lanier. To be published in late 2013 by UNC Press.
An untitled essay about Depression- and Prohibition-era country music,introducing Disc 2 (“Play Hard”) of the three-disc set Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard, produced by Nathan Salsburg and released on the Tompkins Square label.Fall, 2012.
“Bless Her Heart,” an essay about mothers in early country, gospel, and blues music, in book/CD set Never a Pal Like Mother: Vintage Songs and Photographs of the One Who’s Always True, with forward by Rosanne Cash. In addition to the essay, I contributed many of the antique vernacular photographs included in the book. Dust-to-Digital, May 2011.
Moon North Carolina, a travel guide to the state of North Carolina, with special emphasis on historical and folklife-related destinations. Avalon Travel Publishing, first edition November 2008, second edition November 2010.
Moon North Carolina Coast, a guide to the eastern region of North Carolina. Avalon Travel publishing, 2010.
“Report on the Arts Resources and Cultural Traditions of Wilmington and Hanover County, North Carolina” (PDF). Co-written with Sally Peterson. October 2010, North Carolina Arts Council and North Carolina Folklife Institute.
Reviews of traditional music recordings and books about folklife in the Old-Time Herald. Books reviewed include Take Me to the Water: Immersion Baptism in Vintage Music and Photos, 1890-1950 (Vol. 12 No. 1, 2009), and Hands in Harmony: Traditional Music and Craft in Appalachia (Vol. 12 No. 4, 2010); recordings reviewed include The Best of Lydia Mendoza (Vol. 11 No. 7, 2008), Walter Hurdt and the Singing Cowboys, 1937-1940 (Vol. 11 No. 8, 2008), Elkville Stringband: Over the Mountain (Vol. 11 No. 9, 2009), Mac and Jenny Traynham: Never Grow Old (Vol. 11 No. 9, 2009), John C. Campbell Folk School Presents Nighthoots and Morning Songs (Vol. 11, No. 10, 2010), Hammer and String: The Girl I Left Behind (Vol. 12, No. 5, 2010), Hamper McBee of Monteagle, Tennessee: The Good Old-Fashioned Way (Vol. 12, No. 6, 2010), and Twilite Broadcasters: Evening Shade (Vol. 12, No. 7).
Travel itineraries for folklife-related weekend trips, for the website of the North Carolina Folklife Institute, http://www.ncfolk.org,
Profiles of traditional artists in North Carolina’s southern mountain counties, for the Blue Ridge National Heritage Area’s online Traditional Artists Directory, through the North Carolina Folklife Institute.
Saving Legacy Stories of the Vanishing World of Southern Cotton Mill People: A How-to Manual, a training guide, co-authored with Lynn Rumley, for community-based oral history initiatives in mill towns. Textile Heritage Center, 2007.
An untitled article on Mexican migrant farmworkers’ celebrations of Day of the Dead in North Carolina. Sampson (NC) Independent, November 28, 2003.
“Se me dificulta nada, porque me gusta: Cocina tradicional de México en el este de Norte Carolina” (“I Don’t Find it Difficult, Because I Like It: Traditional Mexican Cooking in Eastern North Carolina”). La Conexión, September 30, 2003.
“Tradiciones de la patria,” (“Homeland Traditions”), an article about sacred traditions of Mexican dance in North Carolina. Acento Latino, July 29, 2003.
“Waiting for Elvis,” a short story in the Sunday Reader series of work by Southern writers. Raleigh (NC) News & Observer, May 5, 2002.
Biographical liner notes about traditional Southern fiddlers for Bruce Molsky’s Southern Oldtime Fiddle Tour. Mel Bay Music, 2000.
Cuban and Cuban-American Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture, a finding aid to Library of Congress field recordings of music and folk narrative from Cuba, co-authored with Kenneth G. Schweitzer. Archive of Folk Culture, Library of Congress, August 2000.
North Carolina Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture, co-authored with Laura Bovilsky and Ronan Peterson.Archive of Folk Culture, Library of Congress.
Georgia Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture, co-authored with Christy Chason, Daniel P. Horvath, Alexander F. Sheriff, and Leah S. Stauber. Archive of Folk Culture, Library of Congress.
