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Here you'll find links to all my currently available recordings by catagory. To see the complete listing, click here to view the order form.

Recordings

I recorded my first album, Come Before Winter, way back in 1987. I’d been playing the Hammered Dulcimer for about six years by then and loved listening to some of the new talents of Celtic music—Kevin Burke, Ossian, Boys of the Lough, Planxty, The Chieftains, and The Bothy Band, among others. I collected a couple of dozen of my favorite tunes, several original tunes I’d written for the hammered dulcimer, and headed for the studio. A year and a half (and one producer) later, the tape was released (CDs were still a novelty at the time), and I was much better educated in the ways of studio recording.

Whilst I marketed my tape and built Hammered Dulcimers, I met Sheila. She rekindled my interest in the old fiddle and banjo tunes of the Southern Mountains known as Old Time music. At the same time I got involved in a Civil War reenactment organization (the 26th North Carolina Troops) and began to learn and research the music of that period. I put my interests in the Civil War and Old Time music together and came up with several recordings that have become favorites with both history buffs and lovers of traditional music. (By the way, Sheila and I got married in ‘94, and she plays the banjo on all my Civil War albums).

Christmas

Music of the Civil War

Celtic