... 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...

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

So yesterday the new Dulcimer Players News arrived. I opened up the envelope and began flipping through the magazine, and almost fell off...

So, I'm on the second-to-the-last tape transcription of the 1991 David Schnaufer workshop. I had not planned to curate and share...

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

As many people know, David had a fan club for a time that started when he was working with John Lomax as his manager. Each fan club...

One of the tunes David teaches his class to play Galax-style was Old Joe Clark. To get them started, he tells them, Let’s get a little...

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...

You may wonder why I've titled this post "Blackberry Winter" when the video below starts off with Chopin. Well, it allows me to kill two...

Quite by accident I recently discovered this fascinating 2012 documentary on the folk revival that took place in the fifties, sixties and...

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,...

During the course of research for Pluck, a very few, small references to David’s friend Diana White popped up from disparate sources....

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...

Another person who helped with the research for Pluck is Texan singer/songwriter Loretta Callens; I first wrote about her last December....

I'm cheating on this blog post. I have been down an unexpected rabbit hole for the last two weeks, so I thought I would do this quick...

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...

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...