Form of American folk music popular in the Southern Appalachian region of the United Staes prior to the early 1930s, emphasizing jug and mountain string bands; influential in early country music
If you describe something as old-time, you mean that it was common or popular in the past but is not common or popular now. an old-time dance hall which still has a tea dance on Monday afternoons. = old-fashioned. typical of what used to exist, be done etc in the past