... popped into my mailbox, thanks to dulcimer maestro Tull Glazener. I have been on a summer hiatus from this blog, but what arrived...

... about how he joined a hot rock and roll band in the early nineties from Nashville. If you've read Pluck, you'll recognize immediately...

As I finish the last proofing of David's 1991 week long workshop, I have been relistening to his thoughts on bending notes and, then,...

Watch David perform "Tennessee Valentine" at the 2001 dual launch party for the Starlings, Tn's album, Leapers Fork and David's Uncle...

One of the many ways researching and writing Pluck has changed me is that it has given me a new appreciation for first-hand diving into...

So, why, you might ask, might Pluck never have been written without John Lomax's participation? Well, first, he's a walking encyclopedia...

In a city full of legendary figures, John is a bit of a legend himself. He has worked for, with and/or is friends with some of the...

When I look back on the trajectory of David's life, I often wonder what might have happened after he got to Nashville if John Lomax III...

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...

In 1988, Frets magazine, "The Magazine for Acoustic String Musicians" featured a smiling Richard Thompson on its cover. It also...

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...

There was hardly a piece of research for Pluck that didn't yield useful information for telling David's story. Ironically, one of the...

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...

Why him? Why did David Schnaufer spend years writing to Chet Atkins during the seventies--out of all the important music movers and...

As previously described here, David's song "Brush Arbor" was one of those "signs" that kept popping up during the research for Pluck that...

I mentioned earlier that there have been all kinds of events related to this project that I call "good-spooky" kinds of stuff. I usually...

1960: Folk Revival begins. Jean Ritchie introduces Richard Fariña to the dulcimer./Nancy Johnson (later, Nancy Barker) gets her first...

I'm sorry to say this didn't occur to me to include in Pluck prior to publication, but a couple of people suggested I should have...

Thanks to Jack Masters and Vanderbilt University/Special Collections and Archives, take a listen to this track to mark today, Christmas...

This is the view directly across my desk. The painting of David is by a good friend of his who is a multi-media artist, singer-songwriter...