play violin/fiddle and banjo in as may styles as I can muster. I am a member of Dr. Caterwaul's Cadre of Clairvoyant Claptraps, a four-piece of cello, accordion, violin, banjo, and percussion that plays songs ranging across the world. I am also a member of Wahoo, an old-time stringband featuring fiddler Harry Bolick. I am also in the Mud Brothers, a high-energy old-time stringband that used to play all the time in NYC but doesn't much anymore now that most of us have moved out. I play honky-tonk fiddle with John Pinamonti when I can. I am also one of the Dirtballs. Finally, I had the extreme pleasure of playing for a few weeks with Butch Morris and the New Haven Improvisors' Collective.

In other music news, I and Perry Cammack, a DC-based musician, did a little music project called The Orangutan.

Discography

• Brian Francis Slattery and the Slick Six Five, Pictures from a LIberation (Venture Joint, 2011).
• Drew Bunting, The New South (Idiots'Books, 2009).
• Ken Bloom, Bloom's General Store (New Timey Recordings, 2006).
• Harry Bolick, All the Time in the World (New Timey Recordings, 2006).
• Great Lakes, Diamond Times (Empyrean Records, 2006).
• Max Greene, Visiting Hours (Surprise Truck, 2006).
• Harry Bolick, Carroll County, Mississippi (New Timey Recordings, 2004).

Media

Click here to see Wahoo performing at the Westchester Arts Council's performance space, December 9, 2006.

Click here for a trip-hop version of Dock Boggs' "Country Blues," recorded in 2007. Joe DeJarnette on bass. Adam Matta on beatbox. Me on banjo and vocals. Everything done live; this was our second take. Nobody can match the holy terror of Dock Boggs's original version; no one else is Dock Boggs. We did our best.