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

This post is not so much about David, but how David sparked some thoughts about growing older and the passage of Time with its shifting...

In an earlier post on David's partnership with the great Alan Freeman I included the tune "Whiskey Before Breakfast" from their cassette,...

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...

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...

Toward the end of Pluck, you'll read about David and Butch Baldassari's interview and performance on the 2005 radio program, "Wood Songs...

In a recent blog post on a different topic, I shared a video of two of David's young students/collaborators performing "Hey Little...

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...

Emmylou Harris and David Schnaufer perform Hank Williams's "May You Never Be Alone".

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

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...

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...

If the dulcimer and/or its music is new to you, then this post is for you. It is the second of three posts where I will make the case...

There are two main characters in Pluck; one is David Schnaufer, the other is the mountain dulcimer. If the dulcimer or traditional music...

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...

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

This is not *the* earliest music David made; that happened when he was five years old and learned to play the jaw harp. But this is the...

Still not sure who David Schnaufer was, or what he did that was so amazing? Alright, first return to this and this post about Jean...

In 1990, Atlantic Records released a music video that featured Arkansas musician Martin Delray performing his cover of Johnny Cash’s “Get...