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 know how this is going to sound. I just want you to know that I swear it happened. I was in the middle of some serious burnout. So,...

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

A story behind the song: During work on Pluck--especially with respect to the years between 1953 and 2006--I would glimpse here and there...

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 you're visiting this site to learn about David Schnaufer or the dulcimer for the first time, then I hope this and the two previous...

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...

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...

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...

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

David Shnaufer in the mid-seventies

High School sophomore David Schnaufer

I've already began writing about some early influences on David's development as a musician starting with Jean Ritchie. Another early...