An old-time fiddler, banjo player, folklorist, author, and researcher based in Durham, North Carolina, Joseph Decosimo is one of — if not the — most dedicated preservationists of old-time folk music. His work as a scholar, and his output as a musician, draws connections between the various musics of southern Appalachia, a sonic ethnography encompassing western North Carolina, eastern Tennessee, and northern Georgia. According to KLOF, Decosimo’s latest album, Fiery Gizzard, began as a recent thought exercise posed by Hiss Golden Messenger’s MC Taylor, yet another peer and collaborator: “What would this Old-time fiddle music sound like if it were given an Albion Country Band / Fairport Convention sort of treatment?” Or, to put it a bit differently:…

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