Jeff Warner is from New Hampshire and is a talented musician on a variety of instruments and a singer of the old songs - from the Outer Banks fishing villages of North Carolina, to the lumber camps of the Adirondack Mountains and the whaling ports of New England. He is the son of Frank and Anne Warner, who were major song collectors travelling extensively through Canada, New England, and the American south from the late 1930s to the 1960s in search of traditional songs and singers. One of their most important discoveries was the traditional singer and instrument maker Frank Proffitt from Laurel, Tennessee - the source singer for the outlaw song Tom Dooley - a hit of the 1960s folk revival. Jeff sings many songs from the Warner collection and is at present editing a reissue of their important collection.
Websites:
Jeff Warner
Frank & AnneWarner
www.springthyme.co.uk