A onetime Minnesotan now restored to his native Massachusetts, Tim Eriksen is an ethnomusicologist and renaissance man of roots that extend from South India to the Balkans, Appalachia, and New England. Eriksen's voice seems to emanate from the depths of the earth, expressing haunting secrets long locked in rocks and ancient trees, at full howl boiling the very marrow in your bones. It comes from Eriksen's expertise in Sacred Harp or shape-note singing, a stark, emotionally intense form of choral singing designed for Southern church congregations in the mid-19th century. Anthony... More >>>