TIM ERIKSEN

Texas on Ugljan

Remembering Dwight Diller. This is a tune he showed me, sometime when we were driving around the East Coast listening to Pilgrim's Progress on the van tape player, talking life and death, cracking jokes, making music. Dwight's…

Here's a selection of Songs From The Secret Garden, a UK production from a while back. I learned Sandy Boys from Dwight Diller, but I suspect he'd say I rock and rolled it, and that it should be more of…

Filmed by Luka Eriksen and Beau Guenther. I believe the tune is "Going Across The Sea," played on Bill Dunn's banjo in preparation for a little show at Casa Bagnolo in Milis, Sardegna.

Shep Jones was a local character who played fiddle for dances around Stony Brook Harbor in a community whose other notable fiddlers included "Black Tony" Clapp whose grave I remember visiting when I was about 8 for some reason, and…

We were in Berea for a remarkable convocation event at the college, celebrating the book, CD and film Songs of Slavery and Abolition, which we took part in filming and recording in 2018. We did our part at the David…

Pretty soon after I picked up the fiddle, around the end of the war in Bosnia, I learned this from the wildly under appreciated Jeff Davis, although I already kind of knew it from Anne and Frank Warner's recording of…

Here's this song again, this time on the drive between Paonia and Boulder Colorado. I was in Colorado for back shows that were about as different as they get. Friday night in Boulder I did two performances of Follow the…

At 50th street station in NYC. I just returned from a lovely three day run at the Irish Arts Center in Hell's Kitchen culminating in a collaboration with Tatiana Hargreaves and Allison de Groot in celebration of the release of…

When I post about my music it tends to generate much less interest than when I post about random crap that happened to me, so here's my facebook post from my hotel room in Palm Beach, FL the other day…

Filmed by Anja Eriksen

I found this remarkable song just about thirty years ago, and have been singing it ever since. I'm still waiting for it to catch on. I was doing some work for Dr. Nicholas Temperley, whose…