WILLY CLAFLIN: lead & harmony vocals, guitar, banjo.....................................
BRIAN CLAFLIN: lead & harmony vocals, guitar, bass, banjo, accordion, mandolin and octave mandolin...................... Featured guest musicians are Tom Carr: bass, Dan Kellar: fiddle, and Dave Halberg: percussion.
Influences
Gillian Welch, Silly Sisters, Tim O'Brien, Jean Ritchie, Peggy Seeger,
Woody Guthrie, Martin Carthy, Emmylou Harris, Paul Brady, Steeleye Span, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss...
YouTube videos - live at the national Storytelling Festival: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=willy+brian+claflin&search_type= .........................................................................................CD "In Yonder's Wood" now available at: http://www.willyclaflin.com/store.php................................................................................................................................................................Willy Claflin has been singing, collecting traditional songs and writing his own material for decades. He is also a children's author, and an award-winning storyteller for all ages, having performed at storytelling festivals around the world. He has numerous storytelling recordings in print for both children and adults, as well as two indie albums of original songs released in the 1980's (which featured Brian on harmonies)...........................
Brian is a published songwriter, having collaborated with writers Nanci Griffith and Adam Duritz, and is a children's author as well. An indie CD from 1991 is currently out of print. He has been singing with his dad his whole life, but In Yonder's Wood is their first formal collaboration as a duo...........................
Also featured on In Yonder's Wood are Tom Carr: bass on Downbound Train, Ooralye Aye and Copper Kettle (Tom also mastered the CD); Dan Kellar: fiddle on Wind & Rain, and Dave Halberg: percussion on Nottamun Town.
