Fred Bartenstein is an adjunct instructor in music at the University of Dayton. He is the editor of Roots Music in America: Collected Writings of Joe Wilson and Bluegrass Bluesman: A Memoir. Curtis W. Ellison is Emeritus Professor of History and American Studies at Miami University. He is the author of Country Music Culture: From Hard Times to Heaven and the editor of Miami University, 1809-2009: Bicentennial Perspectives.