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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) 

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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

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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)

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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) 

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