NEVER MET A STRANGER

Any-Angled Light is a suite of instrumental music featuring bass, guitar, piano, tenor saxophone, electronic synthesis, and field recordings. Mixing song-structures with open-ended ambient...

As Has It is a collection of interviews, photographs, and field recordings captured throughout central Appalachia between May 2015 and July 2019. These documents explore the connections between...

A 2xCD collection of 60 field recordings captured throughout central Appalachia between May 2015 - July 2019. Artists include Josh Bearman, Bonnie Bond, Eddie Bond, Debbie Bramer, Kelley Breiding,...

Recorded May 18, 2016 at the Fries Community Center in Fries, VA. Eddie Bond, Karen Carr, Donald Hill, and Peco Watson rip through twelve tracks of great old-time classics. An excellent recording of...

Never Met A Stranger's Jeremy Drummond and David Poolman are multimedia artists whose works span drawing, printmaking, photography and film. For 'Old Time Mountain Music & Other Songs', the duo have...

Since 2015, Never Met A Stranger has been producing experimental media and recording interviews and field recordings with vernacular musicians, artists, preachers, and activists throughout the...

Kentucky mountain music was described by Pete Seeger in 1987: "I have no proof, but I suspect that the Kentucky mountain style (of singing a short verse in a high intense voice, and then playing for...

?Over two-days in July 2019, Never Met A Stranger conducted an intimate recording session with Martha Spencer in a farmhouse in Grassy Creek, North Carolina. This session resulted in 24-tracks of...

Martha Spencer is a singer-songwriter, mountain musician and dancer from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. She grew up in the musical Spencer family and from a very young age has been dancing...

The last recordings of renowned Old Time fiddler Thornton Spencer (Whitetop Mountain Band). Accompanied by Emily Spencer, Kilby Spencer, Deb Bramer, Kelly Breiding, and Cameron DeWhitt. Recorded in...

This 20-track LP was pressed at 45rpm and clocks in at just over 14-minutes - a blazing soundtrack companion to the New Year touching on everything here from geophagy to dormophonics to...