traditional music

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...

Mar 3, 20224 min read

Madeline MacNeil

Writing on this project has enabled me to get to know and learn from a whole host of remarkable and talented people, some from within the...

Jan 19, 20222 min read

Can a modest fiddle tune change the world?

If David were alive today, I believe he would have been great friends with Jamie Laval--they would have had much to talk about. During...

Jan 17, 20221 min read

The Hero's Journey (part 3)

A brief summation of the Hero's Journey as it relates to the biography, Pluck The Extraordinary Life and Times of David Schnaufer

Dec 27, 20213 min read

Roger Nicholson

Rick shot me an email today in which he commented on the Jack Master's track from the "Merry Christmas from David" post; "As I listened...

Dec 1, 20211 min read

Alan Lomax and Jean Ritchie

If you've never heard of the Lomax family, you're in for a world of discovery and wonder as was I when I started this project. But, I get...

Nov 15, 20212 min read

David and the Harmonica

One of the first things I learned about David Schnaufer when I started my research was that the dulcimer was not his first instrument;...