Another Blast from the Past
In an earlier post on David's partnership with the great Alan Freeman I included the tune "Whiskey Before Breakfast" from their cassette,...
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Linda Paulus
- Oct 15, 2022
- 2 min
Back to the Second/Third Folk Revivals ...
Quite by accident I recently discovered this fascinating 2012 documentary on the folk revival that took place in the fifties, sixties and...
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Linda Paulus
- Oct 10, 2022
- 3 min
Diana Redux Part 2 What Happened to Diana White?
Back in April, I wrote the following about Diana White in this post when I knew very little about her. In the previous post to this one,...
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Linda Paulus
- Oct 2, 2022
- 4 min
Diana White Redux Part 1
During the course of research for Pluck, a very few, small references to David’s friend Diana White popped up from disparate sources....
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Linda Paulus
- Sep 17, 2022
- 3 min
John Lomax III, Part 3
So, why, you might ask, might Pluck never have been written without John Lomax's participation? Well, first, he's a walking encyclopedia...
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Linda Paulus
- Aug 21, 2022
- 2 min
David and T-Roy and Loretta
Another person who helped with the research for Pluck is Texan singer/songwriter Loretta Callens; I first wrote about her last December....
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Linda Paulus
- Jul 31, 2022
- 3 min
FOD: Linda Sack
Linda Sack was not only a close friend of David's, she was hand-selected by him to become one of four members he envisioned as the...
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Linda Paulus
- Jun 20, 2022
- 3 min
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
- Apr 24, 2022
- 4 min
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, 2022
- 2 min
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, 2022
- 2 min
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, 2022
- 1 min
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 30, 2022
- 2 min
Fariña pops in again
The researching and writing for Pluck was a gargantuan learning experience on a number of levels. And the learning continues, thanks to...
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Linda Paulus
- Mar 20, 2022
- 2 min
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, 2022
- 3 min
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, 2022
- 1 min
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
- Mar 3, 2022
- 4 min
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...
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Linda Paulus
- Feb 27, 2022
- 1 min
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, 2022
- 2 min
"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 25, 2022
- 2 min
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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