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Although most widely known mainly because the shaven-headed and earringed lead singer of the original folk band Cordelia’s Father, Tim Eriksen can be a respected teacher and a collector of folk song variants. Maybe remarkably, Eriksen’s musical origins are in the traditional western Massachusetts hardcore punk picture from the ’80s, …

Although Cordelia’s Father started as a typical punk-influenced guitar-bass-drums rock-band, their repertoire right from the start has consisted entirely of traditional American folk tunes. Even though electric powered instrumentation became much less pronounced within their music after their initial few albums, Cordelia’s Father have continued to be known for both …