Douglas Day is a folk/blues singer and finger-style guitarist with a Ph. D. in folklore who lives with his family in Staunton, VA. A professional folklorist by trade, Day has documented southern and mid-Atlantic traditions since Jimmy Carter was president. With guitar and tape recorder in hand, Day has learned from urban bluesmen and mountain ballad singers, and has accompanied gospel quartets in black and white churches. Day’s singing and guitar styles are his own, but are obviously influenced by his fieldwork, from Appalachia to the Sea Islands, from the Mississippi Delta to Pennsylvania Dutch country. The result is a stew of blues, country, gospel, folk, rock 'n' roll, and rhythm 'n' blues, with side dishes of old hymns and show tunes, ditties, rags and ballads. |