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
Jun 20, 20223 min read
Dulcimer Boomer: Neal Hellman
Remember the old Reader's Digest recurring series, "My Most Unforgettable Character"? Well, Neal Hellman is in my Top Ten list of most...
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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
Apr 2, 20221 min read
Like things vibrate alike
In my last post, I wrote about "The Quiet Joys of Brotherhood". I heard it for the very first time earlier this week. Bob Force had...
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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
Mar 9, 20223 min read
Jan Pulsford & the Twanging Dude
Jan Pulsford was one of the biggest surprises of all the people who informed the research for Pluck. She is Welsh-born, but lives and...
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Linda Paulus
Mar 6, 20221 min read
FOD: David & Butch Baldassari
Toward the end of Pluck, you'll read about David and Butch Baldassari's interview and performance on the 2005 radio program, "Wood Songs...
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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 25, 20222 min read
FOD: Guest post by Steven Stubblefield
When I started the Pluck Blog, I envisioned putting up posts that followed the chronology of Pluck, but I've made an executive decision...
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Linda Paulus
Feb 22, 20223 min read
Dulcimer Boomers: Bob Force (and Al d'Oscché)
I am struck as I type this how easy it is to fall into the trap of thinking everything is awful after reading the news. How easy it would...
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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 12, 20222 min read
Yes, the dulcimer evolves, but always in full circle
A few days ago, David Beede posted a clip of Cyndi Lauper on Everything Dulcimer. The video is from her 2008 appearance on the Howard...
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