Native Ground Information

Native Ground Music, founded in 1973, is the comprehensive resource for authentic southern Appalachian music and traditional music of rural America, the Civil War, and the Old West. Our gospel, bluegrass, and old-time folk music collections are unsurpassed, and we have a full catalog of outlaw ballads, cowboy music, pioneer music, Lewis & Clark music, and railroad songs. Instruction books written by author, teacher, and musician Wayne Erbsen teach total and absolute beginners how to play the mandolin, clawhammer banjo, bluegrass banjo, fiddle, guitar and dulcimer. We also publish a series of best-selling cookbooks of traditional pioneer recipes by Barbara Swell. Many of our recordings capture the sounds of Celtic music played on historical instruments such as hammer dulcimer, lap dulcimer, violin, and guitar. Instrumental recordings include Cold Frosty Morning and Waterdance, produced by Katie LaRaye Waldren and Candace Kreitlow.