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Dirk Powell
Oberlin, United States
Dirk Powell is credited on 79 releases across 74 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1990–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
79
Pressings credited
74
Albums
4
Decades active
156
In collections
Biography
Dirk Powell (born June 7, 1969) is an American fiddler, banjo player, and singer. He was born in Oberlin southwest of Elyria, Ohio into a family with deep Kentucky roots. He has lived in Louisiana since 1992. He is considered one of the world's leading experts on traditional Appalachian fiddle and banjo styles. Powell is also a recording engineer, producer, and owns a studio, the Cypress House, in Breaux Bridge near Lafayette, Louisiana. The studio is in a converted 1850s Louisiana Creole home on Bayou Teche and focuses on vintage gear and audio.. Powell has won four Grammy Awards and has been a guest on television shows including Late Night with David Letterman, the Today Show, and American Masters. For ten years, he was Joan Baez's "band." He was a longtime member of the Cajun band Balfa Toujours. He performs as a solo artist, as a featured artist with Transatlantic Sessions, on tour with Mary Chapin Carpenter, and as a duo with Rainy Eyes. Powell has recorded with Rhiannon Giddens, Loretta Lynn, Irma Thomas, Tim O'Brien, the Raconteurs on their record Consolers of the Lonely, and Eric Clapton. Powell has scored and worked on numerous films including Cold Mountain, In the Electric Mist, Stevie, and Ride with the Devil. He collaborated on the score for Sundance award-winning documentary, Descendant.
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Credited work
79 releases · 74 albums · active 1990–2025
- Performance · 135
- Other credits · 35
- Engineering · 24
- Production · 18
- Mastering · 6
Studios: The Cypress House · Dimension Sound Studios, Boston · Red October Studios · Wellspring Sound
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Consolers Of The Lonely
2008
Acoustic Recordings 1998-2016
2016
Van Lear Rose
2004
I Still Do
2016
The Ghost Who Walks
2010
You're The One
2023
Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating The Music Of "Inside Llewyn Davis"
2015
Meanwhile
2024
Cold Mountain (Music From The Miramax Motion Picture)
2003
Freedom Highway
2017
Happy Xmas
2018
Complicated Game
2015
Build Me Up From Bones
2013
After The Rain
2006
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Eric Clapton
- Danny Barnes
- The Wilders (2)
- The Critton Hollow String Band
- Laura Cortese
- Balfa Toujours
- Darrell Scott
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