Fiddle Tunes from Long Island with Jeff Davis

Sheep Barn

Old Long Island was a hotbed of tunes, and there are at least two collections to prove it: William Sidney Mount (1807-1868), the famous painter of The Banjo Player and The Bones Player, was also a fiddler; his collection spans music from English marches, Irish jigs, to tunes learned from the minstrel stage and from […]

What a way to go! Deadly Songs with Jeff Davis

Some deaths in folk songs. Tally up the body count.   Jeff Davis One of America’s most respected collectors and interpreters of traditional music, Jeff Davis has traveled far to visit “source singers”--farmers and miners who remembered the old songs and tunes — and closer at hand to libraries and archives, always looking for the […]