About this blog:
These are the Appalachian ramblings of Malcolm Smith, a recovering college professor, goat farmer, clawhammer banjo player, author and ventriloquist. Welcome to my holler. Take your shoes off, sit a spell. Listen to the sounds of the Blue Ridge. This is my little corner of the internet, right here on my front porch at 3,000 feet in Laurel Fork, VA on the Big Reed Island Creek.
Drop by anytime.
Latest from the Blog
All Praise the Potluck Dinner!
First, may I tell you that I have been a huge fan of potluck all my life. My first memories are of grownups that loved me going through the line for me at a Methodist Church potluck out on the prairies of SW KS. With such excitement, I waited for my plate to be delivered by…
Happy Endings (or how I solved my tag thing)
Malcolm Smith I was deep in a hollow across the state line in West Virginia, sitting knee to knee with some of the best old time musicians I’d ever met. My banjo was ringing with dark, ancient melodious sounds. Somehow, by the grace of god, I was keeping up as we travelled the twisty, curvy, crooked melodies…
THE LEGENDARY FLOYD RAMSEY
THE APPALACHIAN STRING BAND FESTIVAL “GLUE” Some say “home” is where your story begins. Down an abandoned road off Route 60 near the ghost town of Winona, WV, sits a humble home near a now defunct coal mine. If you were to step on the porch of this house and politely knock, you surely would…
Hear the Holler!
A Voice from the Holler: Dispatches from The Blue Ridge 