Dirk Powell
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Biography
[Edit]He's considered one of the world's leading experts on traditional Appalachian fiddle and banjo styles, along with carrying on the traditions of his late and legendary father-in-law Dewey Balfa as the accordion player in the Cajun group Balfa Toujours. But fiddler/banjo player/accordionist Dirk Powell first started playing music in the classical style. The future "Renaissance Mountain Man" started piano lessons at the age of eight, and by the age of ten he had moved on to the harpsichord. It was his grandfather in Ashland, Kentucky who first exposed Powell to Appalachian music and his own mountain heritage. Powell started playing mountain music professionally and felt that it shared the spirit and energy of the Cajun sound he was beginning to love. It was at a 1989 festival in West Virginia that he first met and played with Dewey Balfa, a musician whose performance left Powell "captivated." When Balfa passed away in 1992, Powell joined Balfa's daughters, Nelda and Christine (Powell would later marry Christine) and formed Balfa Toujours. The band would go on to record five albums for labels like Swallow and Rounder.
In 1994, Powell won the annual Mulate's Accordion Contest and started teaching accordion at home and abroad. He released two instructional videos on how to play Cajun accordion, but he also started to refocus on the banjo and fiddle. Fiddle and banjo were upfront for his solo Rounder debut, If I Go Ten Thousand Miles. Hand Me Down followed in 1999, but various projects kept the musician from releasing a follow-up. His banjo playing appeared on the soundtracks to Bamboozled and The Brothers McMullen; his fiddle playing was heard in Riverdance: The Show, and he appeared in the BBC documentary The Irish Empire, discussing the culture of Irish immigrants who lived in the Appalachian Mountains in the 1700s. He scored the documentary Stevie, and worked with Jewel on the soundtrack for Ride With the Devil, and with T-Bone Burnett for Cold Mountain's score. By 2004, he returned to his solo work and issued Time Again on Rounder.
Title: Songs from the Mountain
Artist: Dirk Powell
Genre: Rock, Folk Rock, Country, Alternative Country, Songwriter/Lyricist, Contemporary Folk
Title: If I Go Ten Thousand Miles
Artist: Dirk Powell
Genre: Rock, World Music, Country, Alternative Country, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Hand Me Down
Artist: Dirk Powell
Genre: Rock, World Music, Country, Alternative Country, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Tony Furtado & Dirk Powell
Artist: Tony Furtado, Dirk Powell
Genre: Blues, Rock, World Music, Country, Folk
Collections
Title: The Greatest Bluegrass Artists
Genre: Country
Title: Divided & United: The Songs of the Civil War
Genre: Country
Title: Transatlantic Sessions - Series 5: Volume One
Genre: Country
Title: Gambling With Country Music
Genre: Country
Title: Appalachian Picking Society
Genre: Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Bluegrass Fiddle
Genre: Country
Title: Allons En Louisiane
Genre: Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Classic Country from a Kentucky Speakeasy
Genre: Country
Title: Essential Country Novelties
Genre: Country
Title: Transatlantic Sessions - Series 5, Vol. Three
Genre: Country
Title: Pickin' and Grinnin'
Genre: Jazz
Title: Classic Country: Hello Hangover
Genre: Country
Title: Good Ol' Country Gospel
Genre: Country
Title: Bluegrass Drinkin' Songs
Genre: Country
Title: Drinking Bluegrass
Genre: Country
Title: Country Fiddlers
Genre: Country
Title: Golden Country Bluegrass
Genre: Country
Title: Essential Singer Songwriters
Genre: Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Pickathon Music Festival 2002
Genre: Blues, Alternative
Title: Essential Bluegrass Fiddle
Genre: Folk
Title: Instrumental Bluegrass - Fiddle
Genre: Country
Title: Timeless Country
Genre: Country
Title: Classic Country Ballads
Genre: Country
Title: Rambling Fever: Country Music Hits the Road
Genre: Country
Title: Cold Mountain (Original Soundtrack)
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Happy Country Hits 2023 (CD1)
Genre: Country
Featuring albums
Title: In the Electric Mist (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Artist: Marco Beltrami
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Ashokan Farewell / Beautiful Dreamer - Songs of Stephen Foster
Artist: Jay Ungar, Thomas Hampson, David Alpher
Genre: Pop, Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: World Music, Folk
Title: Divided & United: The Songs Of The Civil War
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Country, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Come to the Mountain: Old Time Music for Modern Times
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Country, Alternative Country, Classical
Title: Ashokan Farewell . Beautiful Dreamer (Songs of Stephen Foster)
Artist: Jay Ungar
Genre: Classical
Title: Blue Trail of Sorrow
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Gospel, Christian Rock, World Music, Country, Christian Country Music, Pop, Folk
Title: Tunes from David Holt's State of Music 2
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: World Music, Country, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: I Wanna Sing Right: Rediscovering Lomax in the Evangeline Country
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: World Music, Folk