A song I learned from Amelia Clark's copy of the American Vocalist, 1848, after I found it for $3 at a local flea market over 30 years ago. From the Ben Nicholls album Duets on Hudson Records.
Feb 10, 2024
Feb 10, 2024
A song I learned from Amelia Clark's copy of the American Vocalist, 1848, after I found it for $3 at a local flea market over 30 years ago. From the Ben Nicholls album Duets on Hudson Records.
Feb 17, 2023
Remembering Dwight Diller. This is a tune he showed me, sometime when we were driving around the East Coast listening to Pilgrim's Progress on the van tape player, talking life and death, cracking jokes, making music. Dwight's…
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Dec 31, 2022
Here's a selection of Songs From The Secret Garden, a UK production from a while back. I learned Sandy Boys from Dwight Diller, but I suspect he'd say I rock and rolled it, and that it should be more of…
Dec 6, 2022
Filmed by Luka Eriksen and Beau Guenther. I believe the tune is "Going Across The Sea," played on Bill Dunn's banjo in preparation for a little show at Casa Bagnolo in Milis, Sardegna.
Nov 1, 2022
Shep Jones was a local character who played fiddle for dances around Stony Brook Harbor in a community whose other notable fiddlers included "Black Tony" Clapp whose grave I remember visiting when I was about 8 for some reason, and…
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Oct 22, 2022
Sep 17, 2022
We were in Berea for a remarkable convocation event at the college, celebrating the book, CD and film Songs of Slavery and Abolition, which we took part in filming and recording in 2018. We did our part at the David…
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Aug 13, 2022
Pretty soon after I picked up the fiddle, around the end of the war in Bosnia, I learned this from the wildly under appreciated Jeff Davis, although I already kind of knew it from Anne and Frank Warner's recording of…
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Apr 9, 2022
Here's this song again, this time on the drive between Paonia and Boulder Colorado. I was in Colorado for back shows that were about as different as they get. Friday night in Boulder I did two performances of Follow the…
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Mar 11, 2022
At 50th street station in NYC. I just returned from a lovely three day run at the Irish Arts Center in Hell's Kitchen culminating in a collaboration with Tatiana Hargreaves and Allison de Groot in celebration of the release of…
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