Barretta, Scott, "More on the One-String," Living Blues Magazine, issue 156 (2001) p 49.  A diddley bow discography.

Barretta, Scott, "Super Chikan," Living Blues Magazine, issue 156 (2001) p 51.  Short interview segment of James "Super Chikan" Johnson.

Evans, David, "Afro-American One-Stringed Instruments," Afro-American Folk Arts and Crafts, ed. William Ferris, University Press of Mississippi, Jackson MS (1983), pp 181-196. Reprint of Dr. Evans' article in Western Folklore 29 (1970), pp 229-45.

Ferris, William, "Louis Dotson, One-String Guitar Maker" Afro-American Folk Arts and Crafts, ed. William Ferris, University Press of Mississippi, Jackson MS (1983), pp 198-206. 

Kubik, Gerhard, Africa and the Blues, University Press of Mississippi, Jackson MS (1999).  Includes discussion of origins of diddley bow from western Africa and its development and evolution in the southern United States.

Lomax, Alan, The Land Where the Blues Began, Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, New York NY (1993).  Description of Napoleon Strickland making and playing a diddley bow pp 347-352.

Mills, Fetzer, Jr. "Glenn Faulkner 'King of the Ones String'" Living Blues Magazine, issue 156, (2001) pp 46-48.  Short bio of Glenn Faulkner 

O'Neal, Jim and O'Neal Amy "Jimmy Reed on playing with one-string guitarist Willie Joe Duncan," Living Blues Magazine, issue 156 (2001), p 50.  Excerpt from an interview of Jimmy Reed in Living Blues Magazine issue 21 (1975).

Pitchford, Lonnie, "Lonnie Pitchford 'Now that's real rock music there'" Living Blues Magazine, issue 156 (2001), p 51.  Transcription of spoken word track from Pitchford's 1994 CD All Around Man.