Podcast 19: Guitarist Jerry Willard

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This episode of the Lyrichord Early and Classical Show podcast features guitarist and lutenist Jerry Willard in an interview by Mark Greenberg– musician, writer, and proprietor of Upstreet Productions, specializing in traditional folk music and oral history*.  Mark and Jerry discuss Willard's recording of his own guitar transcriptions of works by George Gershwin, and play tracks from Willard's Lyrichord release "That Certain Feeling". Jerry talks about his musical background growing up on a Midwestern farm, his early interest in music and the influence of his guitarist father. Lute and baroque guitar tracks are also played from his other two Lyrichord albums, "The Baroque Guitar", and
"Jerry Willard Plays: Four Centuries of Lute and Guitar".

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*Mark Greenberg also teaches American vernacular music history at the University of Vermont.
Click here to visit his Upstreet Productions website.

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