{"product_id":"joseph-decosimo-fiery-gizzard-1","title":"Joseph Decosimo- Fiery Gizzard (CD)","description":"\u003cp\u003eOld-time and traditional music stay exciting for their contrasts. Exacting instrumentation honed through mentorships and late-night jams at fiddler's conventions tangles with a community-sourced inventiveness that influences variants and new sounds. Joseph Decosimo is a master of this genre for this very reason, blending deep technique with an openness and curiosity that keep his music crackling with life. A \"marvelous fiddler\" (No Depression) and banjo player who braids \"exultation and veneration\" (INDY Week) into his music, on his third solo album Fiery Gizzard Decosimo gathers a close-knit ensemble of friends from his musical career to infuse his interpretations of fiddle and banjo pieces with a contagious communal joy.\r\n\r\nAs an artist working with traditional music from the South and Appalachia, Decosimo chooses songs based not only on historical significance and lineage but also his own sensory approach. For Fiery Gizzard, his ear was tuned to otherworldly tones and mystery, sourcing from field recordings such as Virginia fiddler Luther Davis' hypnotic version of \"Shady Grove\" while amping up the music's psychedelic potential. On the middle Tennessee banjo composition \"Flowery Girls,\" a VHS of bluesman Abner Jay inspired Decosimo to rig up a pickup inside a fretless banjo and play it through a tube amp to capture some of Jay's edge and funkiness. But to round out the sound and keep it kinetic meant galvanizing a genre-eschewing crew to jam out- and not in a \"spaced-out drooly\" kind of way, he laughs, but as a sort of \"responsive conversation.\"\r\n\r\nDecosimo has always been a community-minded artist. He began playing as a seventh grader in Tennessee, fostering relationships with older players at jams and in homes, a learning mode natural to his inquisitive nature and desire for musical connection. A folklorist by intuition, he later became one by profession, studying with old-time legend Clyde Davenport, teaching in East Tennessee State University's renowned bluegrass program, and receiving his PhD at the University of North Carolina with a dissertation titled \"Catching the 'Wild Note': Listening, Learning, and Connoisseurship in Old-Time Music.\" In North Carolina, Decosimo kicked about in the verdant environment of Durham and Chapel Hill's folk and indie scenes, collaborating with artists including Alice Gerrard, Hiss Golden Messenger, and Jake Xerxes Fussell. This community has influenced his own music, including his \"sublime and strangely heartening\" (Bandcamp Daily) 2022 release While You Were Slumbering and Beehive Cathedral, Decosimo's 2024 \"Appalachian mountain music treasury\" (New Commute) trio album with Luke Richardson and Cleek Schrey for Dear Life Records.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrack List\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIda Red\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Glory in the Meetinghouse\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Flowery Girls\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e I Had a Good Father and Mother\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Shady Grove\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Pretty Fair Maid\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Billy Button\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Puncheon Camps\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Queen of Rocky Ripple\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Boatsman\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003cp\u003e UPC \u0026gt; 617308101577 \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Format \u0026gt; New CD \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Label \u0026gt; Dear Life Records \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Release Date \u0026gt; Release Date: 8.15.25 \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShop online at \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.darksiderecords.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eDarkside Records\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AEC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46525318594781,"sku":"617308101577","price":58.0,"currency_code":"SAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/4435448-3406400.jpg?v=1750973459","url":"https:\/\/shop.darksiderecords.com\/en-sa\/products\/joseph-decosimo-fiery-gizzard-1","provider":"Darkside Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}