Root Hog Or Die

New solo album, “Third,” available on No Quarter, July 20, 2018.

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Video:

Live on KEXP (Seattle) with Joan Shelley, July 2017.

“Planxty Davis,” after Nic Jones’ arrangement, November 2015.

NPR Tiny Desk Concert with Joan Shelley, taped September 2015.

“Mrs. Gristle’s Reel” and “Concessions,” Philly house show, February 2015. Shot by Jesse Sheppard.

“Chief Wants,” January 2013.

NPR Tiny Desk Concert: “Affirmed” and “Eight Belles Dreamt the Devil Was Dead,” taped February 2012.

“Sought & Hidden.” Compiled by cinemanonymous – amateur Kentucky Derby footage shot on 8mm in 1936 and 1947 and Super 8 in 1973 and 2000.

 

Releases:

Bonnie “Prince” Billy and Nathan Salsburg: untitled 7″ EP
Paradise of Bachelors, April 2017.
“Wallins Creek Girls”

James Elkington and Nathan Salsburg: “Ambsace”
Paradise of Bachelors, September 2014.
“Up of Stairs”:

Nathan Salsburg: “Hard for to Win and Can’t Be Won”
No Quarter, September 2013.
“First Field Path”:

Nathan Salsburg: “Affirmed”
No Quarter, November 2011.
“Back Home In Bogenbrook”:

James Elkington and Nathan Salsburg: “Avos”
Tompkins Square, August 2011.
“Believer Field”:

“Bold Ruler’s Joys.”
Included on Imaginational Anthem, Volume 3.
Tompkins Square, 2008.

Solo tunings (not accounting for capos/keys):
A Hovering: DADGDE
Affirmed: DADF#DG
B.B.: DADEAD
Back Home In Bogenbrook: DGDGBD
Blues for Eight Belles: DADF#AD
Bold Ruler’s Joys: DADGBE
Chief Wants: EAEGCE
Concessions: CGDGAD
Dog At Bay: DADEAD
Eight Belles Dreamt the Devil Was Dead: DADF#AD
Exilic Excursions: DADGDE
First Field Path: DADABE
Fraught With Hornpipe: DGDGCD
Impossible Air: DADF#AD
Mrs. Gristle’s Reel: CGDGAD
Paraffin & Turpentine: EAEGCE
Planxty Davis: DGDGAE
Ruby’s Freilach / Low Spirits: DGDGCD
Sketch from Life: DADGCD
Sought & Hidden: DADGCE
Timoney’s: DADGAD
The Walls of the World: CGCGCD
What Can’t Be Won: DADABD