Paul Race Music: Home Page
 Paul Race loves and plays most kinds of music, but he is especially fond of acoustic-based and traditional styles. If that makes you think of artists like Pete Seeger, Tom Paxton, Jim Croce, and Rich Mullins, you're on the right track. Since the 1960s, Paul has been performing original songs in just about any kind of performance situation you can imagine - coffeehouses, festivals, churches, schools, nightclubs, camps, street fairs - you name it. If you check out Paul's online resources, you'll notice that Paul spends a lot of time these days helping other musicians make good choices and find the resources they need, especially musicians who are interested in acoustic or traditional music. For example the CreekDontRise.com acoustic instrument pages provide a lot of background on various kinds and uses of acoustic instruments.
Our HarpersGuild.com page provides descriptions, history, and repair tips for autoharps, zithers, bowed psalteries, and related instruments.
Paul's RiverboatMusic.com buyers' guides attempt to sort out the hype from the facts about acoustic instrument purchases. But Paul also keeps his hand in by continuing to write new songs, learning (and writing about) new instruments, and performing when opportunities arise.
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MIDI Banjo Gets No Respect, Either
Not that it should matter, really, because I actually play banjo and don’t NEED MIDI to get banjo tracks. But I do use MIDI sequencers to work up demos, backing tracks for church “specials,” and when working up arrangements. I also use MIDI sequencers when creating tabs and sample half-speed…
We’ve Moved. Can you tell?
If you’re in the habit of checking IP addresses for sites you log onto, you’ll know we’ve moved this web site. Part of a long, complicated, and expensive series of migrations and other changes forced on me and my poor website readers over the last 18 months by a domain…
The Ghost of Tom Joad . . . Orphan Web Pages
This is a plea to anyone who has ever created a substantial online resource to make provisions for keeping the resource available should anything prevent you from continuing its maintenance. I initially posted this on another web page in 2010, but three useful folk music resources I had linked to…
Trial Balloon: Re-Posting Mickey Cochran’s Free 5-String Lessons
Mitchell “Mickey” Cochran loved traditional acoustic music. So much so that when he left a successful career as a graphic artist and web programmer, he started his own online music store, complete with free online lessons for many instruments, including 5-string banjo, mandolin, and Appalachian dulcimer. Years ago, I archived…
Shun the Frumious Banjitar
What’s in a Name? Sometimes shaming and resentment. This includes the name “banjitar,” which certain musicians have used to stress that 6-string banjo players aren’t real banjo players, but rather guitar players who want to play banjo without learning anything. The name needs to be retired. For one thing, the…