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DISCOGRAPHY
2021
Co-Producer/Liner Notes The Village Out West: The Lost Tapes of Alan Oakes
(Field Recordings of the 1960s California Folk Music Scene)
Smithsonian-Folkways SFW CD 40245
2019
Co-Producer/Liner Notes Protobilly: The Minstrel and Tin Pan Alley DNA of Country Music 1892-2017 (JSP Records)
2017
Producer/Performer Banjew (Jalopy Records)
2015
Producer/Liner Notes Attractive Hebrews: The Thomas Lambert Yiddish Cylinders 1901-1904 (Archeophone Records) (2017 Certificate of Merit, Association of Recorded Sound Collections, ARSC)
2013
Co-Producer Paese Mio Bello Italian-American Recordings 1911-1939 (JSP Records)
2012
Executive Producer/performer Pete Sokolow: A Living Tradition (Living Traditions)
2011
Executive Producer/performer Ray Musiker: A Living Tradition (Living Traditions)
2010
Executive Producer/performer German Goldenshteyn: A Living Tradition (Living Traditions)
2009
Co-Producer/liner notes Cantors, Klezmorim, and Crooners: Yiddish Recordings from the Mayrent Collection JSP Records, London
2008
Co-producer/notes Ernest V. Stoneman: The Unsung Father of Country Music Five String Productions, (2008 Grammy nominee “Best Record Notes”)
Executive Producer/performer Elaine Hoffman-Watts: A Living Tradition (Living Traditions)
2007
Co-Producer/Notes People Take Warning! Murder Ballads and Disaster Songs 1913-1938 Tompkins Square Records (2007 Grammy award nominee (Best Historical Album)
2006
Performance, Executive Producer German Goldenshteyn: A Living Tradition (Living Traditions)
2005
Production/annotation 3 CD anthology You Ain't Talkin' To Me: Charlie Poole and the Roots of Country Music (Columbia Legacy) Nominated for three 2005 Grammy awards (Best album notes, Best historical album, Best design)
2002
Co-Production/annotation From Avenue A to the Great White Way (Sony Columbia Legacy)
Co-Production/annotation Abe Schwartz: The Klezmer King (Sony Columbia Legacy)
Co-Production/annotation Tanz! Featuring Dave Tarras and the Musiker Brothers (Sony Columbia Legacy)
Co-Production/annotation Music From The Yiddish Radio Project (Shanachie)
Co-Production/annotation The Yiddish Radio Project (High Bridge Audio)
2000
Production Klezmer: Jewish Music From Old World to Our World (Shanachie)
1998
Consultant/translations/vocal coach Mamaloshen Mandy Patinkin (Electra/Nonesuch)
1997
Production/annotation/performance Klezmania: Klezmer for the New Millennium (Shanachie)
1996
Production/annotation Naftule Brandwein: King of the Klezmer Clarinet (Rounder)
1995
Production//annotation/performance Kapelye On the Air (Shanachie)
1994
Production/annotation, Mysteries of the Sabbath: Cantorial Recordings 1908-1947 (Yazoo)
1993
Production/annotation, Klezmer Pioneers: European and American Recordings 1905-1952, (Rounder)
1992
Production/performance On Wings of Song (Workmen's Circle)
Production/annotation Dave Tarras: Yiddish-American Klezmer Music 1925-1956, Yazoo (Library of Congress Outstanding Folk Recording, 1993)
Production/performance, Remember the Children, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
1991
Production/annotation/performance, Klezmer Plus: Sid Beckerman and Howie Leess, (Flying Fish) (Library of Congress Outstanding Folk Recording, 1991)
1990
Production/performance, Pearls of Yiddish Song, (Workmen's Circle)
1989
Co-production/performance, Partisans of Vilna: The Songs of World War II Jewish Resistance, (Flying Fish) - Grammy finalist -Best Traditional Folk Recording,
1988
Performance/research, Kosher Kitschin', The Original Klezmer Jazz Band, Menorah
1987
Co-production/performance/research, Chicken, Kapelye, (Shanachie)
1986
Sound engineering/remastering, Mariam Nirenberg: Portrait of an East European Jewish Singer, (Global Village) -Library of Congress Outstanding Folk Recording, 1987
1985
Performance/research, The Original Klezmer Jazz Band, (Menorah)
Co-production/performance/research, Levine and His Flying Machine, Kapelye, (Shanachie)
Production/annotation/remastering, Jakie, Jazz 'em Up: Old Time Klezmer Music 1912-1927, (Global Village) (Library of Congress Outstanding Folk Recording, 1986)
1982
Co-production/performance/research, Future and Past, Kapelye, (Flying Fish)
1981
Production/performance/research, Banjo Gems, (Kicking Mule)
Production/co-annotation, Klezmer Music 1910-1942: From the Archives of the YIVO (Smithsonian/Folkways) -Best Documentary Recording Award, National Association of Independent Record Dealers
1979
Performance, Lady Luck, Debby McClatchy w/ The Delaware Water Gap String Band, (Green Linnet)
1978
Co-production/performance/research, From the Rivers of Babylon to the Land of Jazz, The Delaware Water Gap String Band, (Kicking Mule)
1977
Performance, Sweeney's Dream, Kevin Burke, (Smithsonian/Folkways)
Co-production/performance String Band Music, The Delaware Water Gap String Band (Adelphi)
Performance, Melodic Clawhammer Banjo, (Kicking Mule)
1976
Performance, Fox Hollow Old Time Music Festival, The Delaware Water Gap
String Band (Biograph)
