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DISCOGRAPHY
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2023
Lifetime Achievement Award Association of Recorded Sound Collections
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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
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2019
Co-Producer/Liner Notes Protobilly: The Minstrel and Tin Pan Alley DNA of Country Music 1892-2017 (JSP Records)
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2017
Producer/Performer Banjew (Jalopy Records)
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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)
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2011
Executive Producer/performer Ray Musiker: A Living Tradition (Living Traditions)
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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
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2008
Co-producer/notes Ernest V. Stoneman: The Unsung Father of Country Music Five String Productions, (2008 Grammy nominee “Best Record Notes”)
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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)
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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)
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2000
Production Klezmer: Jewish Music From Old World to Our World (Shanachie)
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1998
Consultant/translations/vocal coach Mamaloshen Mandy Patinkin (Electra/Nonesuch)
1997
Production/annotation/performance Klezmania: Klezmer for the New Millennium (Shanachie)
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1996
Production/annotation Naftule Brandwein: King of the Klezmer Clarinet (Rounder)
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1995
Production//annotation/performance Kapelye On the Air (Shanachie)
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1994
Production/annotation, Mysteries of the Sabbath: Cantorial Recordings 1908-1947 (Yazoo)
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1993
Production/annotation, Klezmer Pioneers: European and American Recordings 1905-1952, (Rounder)
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1992
Production/performance On Wings of Song (Workmen's Circle)
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Production/annotation Dave Tarras: Yiddish-American Klezmer Music 1925-1956, Yazoo (Library of Congress Outstanding Folk Recording, 1993)
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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)
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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,
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1988
Performance/research, Kosher Kitschin', The Original Klezmer Jazz Band, Menorah
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1987
Co-production/performance/research, Chicken, Kapelye, (Shanachie)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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1976
Performance, Fox Hollow Old Time Music Festival, The Delaware Water Gap
String Band (Biograph)
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