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Linda Paulus
Aug 13, 20221 min read
Where Was He in 1990?
I'm cheating on this blog post. I have been down an unexpected rabbit hole for the last two weeks, so I thought I would do this quick...
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Linda Paulus
Jul 17, 20226 min read
Frets Magazine Interview, Part 3
Several people have asked how I was able to write a biography of someone whom I had never personally met, so this last of three posts...
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Linda Paulus
Jul 9, 20224 min read
Frets Magazine Interview, Part 2
In 1988, Frets magazine, "The Magazine for Acoustic String Musicians" featured a smiling Richard Thompson on its cover. It also...
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Linda Paulus
Jun 27, 20221 min read
Frets Magazine Interview, Part 1
One of the best experiences in the research for Pluck happened whenever I found an obscure source that opened many more lines of...
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Linda Paulus
May 19, 20222 min read
Some Very Special Instruments at a Very Special Party (Part 1)
Vanderbilt University's Blair School of Music recently held its 75th Anniversary Party, and I felt fortunate to be invited. It was a most...
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Linda Paulus
May 7, 20222 min read
Did you catch it? David Schnaufer and that famous Gram Parsons suit
If you're not sure what a "Nudie suit" is in the context of country music, you might want to read here before you start reading this...
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Linda Paulus
Apr 30, 20222 min read
A Most Revealing Portrait
There was hardly a piece of research for Pluck that didn't yield useful information for telling David's story. Ironically, one of the...
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Linda Paulus
Apr 24, 20224 min read
Nancy Barker and Jean Ritchie
Today I want to write to you about this lovely woman, Nancy Barker. She is one of the reasons that the subtitle for Pluck reads, "The...
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Linda Paulus
Apr 18, 20222 min read
The Elusive Diana White
Crawling back from the misery of a very bad cold, I have been catching up with emails. A few in particular came from Tom Harleman who...
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Linda Paulus
Apr 5, 20222 min read
David and the value of passing on tradition (with a twist)
One of David's most endearing songs is "Sarah", based on a real person named Sarah Melton. He loved the 1911 backstory so much that he...
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Linda Paulus
Mar 27, 20223 min read
The Villager Notebooks
The first time I visited the Schnaufer archive at Vanderbilt University was several years before I ever had an inkling I would plunge...
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Linda Paulus
Mar 20, 20222 min read
Them Dirty Boys Bridgin' the Gap
Once upon a time, the scruffy, west coast hippies who called themselves the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band broached the subject of collaborating...
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Linda Paulus
Feb 27, 20221 min read
Hey Little Birdie, 2022 Redux
In a recent blog post on a different topic, I shared a video of two of David's young students/collaborators performing "Hey Little...
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Linda Paulus
Feb 26, 20222 min read
"Harris Picking"
"Harris Picking" was David's first submission to Dulcimer Players News.* It appeared in 1979, and he was twenty-six years old. Allow me...
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Linda Paulus
Feb 19, 20222 min read
Emmylou and David
Emmylou Harris and David Schnaufer perform Hank Williams's "May You Never Be Alone".
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Linda Paulus
Feb 16, 20221 min read
Chet Atkins
Why him? Why did David Schnaufer spend years writing to Chet Atkins during the seventies--out of all the important music movers and...
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Linda Paulus
Feb 10, 20221 min read
A little "good-spooky" story
I know how this is going to sound. I just want you to know that I swear it happened. I was in the middle of some serious burnout. So,...
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Linda Paulus
Feb 6, 20224 min read
The Hunt for Brush Arbor
A story behind the song: During work on Pluck--especially with respect to the years between 1953 and 2006--I would glimpse here and there...
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Linda Paulus
Jan 31, 20221 min read
The Dulcimer Evolves (part 3)
If you're visiting this site to learn about David Schnaufer or the dulcimer for the first time, then I hope this and the two previous...
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