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"Blessed with an exquisite ear, superlative-creating touch and technique, and a nuanced sense of taste, no one in bluegrass has ever made the guitar sound better than Tim Stafford... David J. McCarty, Bluegrass Unlimited, February 2018

 

This is the official website for guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer and author Tim Stafford.  You can find merch, including downloads and physical copies of all my solo and duet projects, plus instructional material, as well as the critically-acclaimed biography of Tony Rice:  Still Inside, the Tony Rice Story.  Also lyrics, news, schedule, photos, Blog and much more.  Blue Highway dates and information here.

 

Grammy Award-winning guitarist, songwriter, author and singer, three-time IBMA Songwriter of the Year, former member of Alison Krauss and Union Station, and founding member of celebrated Bluegrass group Blue Highway. Co-author of Tony Rice's authorized biography, Still Inside, winner of over 30 IBMA and SPBGMA awards as well as a Dove Award. Co-writer of the 2008 IBMA Song of the Year “Through the Window of a Train” (with Steve Gulley) and Bluegrass Today's most-played song of 2023, “Lonesome State of Mind” (with Bobby Starnes).

STILL INSIDE: THE TONY RICE STORY AVAILABLE HERE!!

The only Authorized biography available for $30 Hardcover plus shipping and handling in Tim's online store.

STILL INSIDE:  THE TONY RICE STORY, the critically-acclaimed AUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY of acoustic music legend Tony Rice is available signed by the author only HERE. (Sorry, no international orders)

Wall Dogs

Tim Stafford & Thomm Jutz

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12 new songs from the pen of Tim Stafford and Thomm Jutz, whose album "Lost Voices" (2023) was critically-acclaimed, with star reviews in ABC News, Associated Press, No Depression and more. Reflections on art, history, Read more

12 new songs from the pen of Tim Stafford and Thomm Jutz, whose album "Lost Voices" (2023) was critically-acclaimed, with star reviews in ABC News, Associated Press, No Depression and more. Reflections on art, history, spirituality and solitude are the thematic cornerstones of this collection. The title song tells the story of commercial sign and mural painters who worked throughout the United States in the 1930s and 40s, many for the WPA Federal Art Project. Onlookers called them “Wall Dogs,” since these painters often worked high up on ladders, or simple scaffolds, secured only by ropes. Today these art pieces have turned into “ghost signs” and can still be seen on the sides of buildings all over the rural United States. Others are on exhibit in the holy halls of American art such as the Detroit Institute of Arts Museum.

On six of the songs on "Wall Dogs" Stafford and Jutz are supported by Bluegrass greats Mark Fain (bass), Tammy Rogers (fiddle), Ron Block (banjo), and Thomas Cassell (mandolin), as well as guest vocalist Dale Ann Bradley. The remaining six songs are presented in seemingly simple, stripped-down, two guitars and vocals arrangements that showcase the nuance and emotion Stafford and Jutz play with while making the essence of each song the focus of each performance.

Stafford and Jutz’s respective resumes as songwriters are widely known, not just within the world of bluegrass music. On "Wall Dogs" they continue to showcase the breadth and depth of American acoustic music in general.

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BRAND-NEW VIDEO for the title cut of Tim Stafford and Thomm Jutz's Wall Dogs album, “Wall Dogs”

Check out the video for the first single from Tim Stafford & Thomm Jutz's Wall Dogs album, “Everywhere a Mountain”

BLUEGRASS U! is the new podcast about the ETSU Bluegrass, Old-Time and Roots Music program and Appalachian Studies hosted by Artist in Residence Tim Stafford, featuring music and conversations with students, faculty, alumni and friends. Founded in 1982, the ETSU program is the largest in the world and the first of its kind at a four-year institution, and its housed in the world's first and only Department of Appalachian Studies. Bluegrass U! is a production of ETSU and is produced by Tim and Program director Dan Boner. New episodes added weekly! Our first episode is with Grammy nominee and IBMA Guitar Player of the Year Trey Hensley.

BUNDLE:  FOUR TIM STAFFORD SOLO RECORDS FOR $25
  • BUNDLE:  FOUR TIM STAFFORD SOLO RECORDS FOR $25

BUNDLE: FOUR TIM STAFFORD SOLO RECORDS FOR $25

Endless Line, FGM Records 114, 2004. Grammy winner and veteran bluegrass musician Tim Stafford announces the release of his first solo recording, Endless Line. Tim's intelligent, captivating and thought-provoking Read more

Endless Line, FGM Records 114, 2004. Grammy winner and veteran bluegrass musician Tim Stafford announces the release of his first solo recording, Endless Line. Tim's intelligent, captivating and thought-provoking songwriting is featured here as he wrote or co-wrote nine. "Tim Stafford was one of my favorite guitar players before he was anyone else's favorite, The album is amazing." -- Flatpicking Legend Tony Rice, April 2003. SONGS:

COLD HARBOR RIDER ON AN ENDLESS LINE THE KID METHODIST PREACHER BAD REPUTATION MAMMA LLAMA DANVILLE GIRL OBSESSION RAIN INDIGO BLUE HOLIDAY ON MISSION STREET IF ONLY FOR A DAY IF I HAD THE MONEY I WOULD RIDE THAT TRAIN THE REASON

Just to Hear the Whistle Blow, Hedge Drive Records, HDR01, 2014. Second solo recording from Grammy winner Tim Stafford, featuring Stuart Duncan, Adam Steffey, Barry Bales, Ron Stewart, Steve Gulley, John Gardner, Marty Raybon, Beth Snapp on 13 original songs and a version of "Red Wing." SONGS:

WHISKEY ISLAND JUST TO HEAR THE WHISTLE BLOW JANET'S SONG WORRY'S LIKE A ROCKIN' CHAIR FATHER NELSON ON THE LEDGE POODLE ON THE DASHBOARD DIMES RED WING HIDEAWAY HOTEL IT AIN'T THE MOUNTAIN MORGAN'S WAY ISAAC MORTON'S REVENGE BACK IN THE DAY

Tunes & Ballads, Hedge Drive Records, HDR03, 2020. TUNES & BALLADS features 16 of Tim’s compositions, 10 instrumental and 7 vocals, along with a cover of Bobby’s Hebb’s 1960s anthem “Sunny.” Like the title says, the record is a mix of solo, duet and trio instrumentals—much like those featured on Tim’s critically-acclaimed 2017 release Acoustic Guitar—and story songs, four of which were co-written with Tim’s friends and collaborators Craig Market, Joe Newberry, Jon Weisberger, and the late, great Steve Gulley. There are stories about great ships like the Titanic and Arizona, historical figures as disparate as Buffalo Bill Cody and Jack the Ripper, and tales of the loss of ways of life and old guitars. There are both flatpicked and fingerpicked originals—Tim was named the SPBGMA guitar player of the year in 2001 and 2015. Songs:

BEECH CREEK WILD WEST GALAPAGOS RED HAIRED BOY THE LAST CLINCHFIELD RUN SUNNY THE MARKS COEBURN BANNER SAIL AWAY TO SEE THE WORLD TAKE THE FERRY LONDON TOWN PALE BLUE DOT SHENANDOAH VALLEY BLUES HAPPY DAY ARIZONA TEARS WENVELL'S LAST DAY PRETTY LITTLE JOB

Guitar Melodies, Hedge Drive Records, HDR04, 2023. Fifteen new instrumentals--eleven originals, two covers ("Both Sides Now" and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps") and two P.D. tunes ("Cluck Old Hen" and "Banish Misfortune"), with solos and duets with Jacob Burleson and Dave Eggar, plus band cuts featuring Ron Stewart, Jacob Burleson and Kameron Keller.

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TIM'S NEW ALBUM GUITAR MELODIES IS AVAILABLE IN THE STORE NOW!! 

Tim's fifth solo record:  All-instrumental, 11 Original tunes, 2 covers ("Both Sides Now" and “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”) and arrangements of two P.D. tunes ("Banish Misfortune" and “Cluck Old Hen”), featuring solos, duets and band cuts with Dave Eggar, Jacob Burleson, Ron Stewart and Kameron Keller.  Hedge Drive Records, 2023.

1. Margarette Falls Tim Stafford [© 2023, Daniel House Music]

2. Both Sides Now (Joni Mitchell, Crazy Crow Music)

3. Old Forge Tim Stafford [© 2023, Daniel House Music]

4. Rhode Island Red Tim Stafford [© 2023, Daniel House Music]

5. Cluck Old Hen [Trad, arr. Tim Stafford, © 2023, Daniel House Music]

6. While My Guitar Gently Weeps (George Harrison, Harrisongs, Ltd.)

7. Alexander Mill Tim Stafford [© 2023, Daniel House Music]

8. Lawndale Tim Stafford [© 2023, Daniel House Music]

9. Hecate Strait Tim Stafford [© 2023, Daniel House Music]

10. Banish Misfortune [Trad, arr. Tim Stafford, © 2023, Daniel House Music]

11. Down the Edgepath Tim Stafford [© 2023, Daniel House Music]

12. Kingfisher Creek Tim Stafford [© 2023, Daniel House Music]

13. Slow Loris Tim Stafford [© 2023, Daniel House Music]

14. Sirocco Tim Stafford [© 2023, Daniel House Music]

15. Tranquil Tides Tim Stafford [© 2023, Daniel House Music]

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