The Daytona Beach News Journal said, “Tammerlin have taken folk’s roots and majestically nurtured them into the 21st century” and Dirty Linen Magazine has described the duo as “captivating” and “one of the best kept secrets in America”.
They released their fifth CD, No Small Thing, in January 2008.
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Pete Winter
Arvid: Oh, yeah. A perfect example is a song on our new CD. The song is a murder ballad, called “Naomi Wyse.” It’s a song from Clarence Ashley that…
Lee: No, it’s not.
Arvid: Not what?
Lee: It’s not a Clarence Ashley song. He didn’t write it.
Arvid: No, I know he didn’t write it. I got it from Clarence Ashley. He recorded it. Bill knows what I mean...
Bill: Who wrote it?
Lee: Nobody knows who wrote it. It’s a traditional mountain song. Arvid associates it with Clarence Ashley but it’s in the public domain.
Bill: What’s it about?
Arvid: It’s about a…roguish man who seduces a young lady and gets her in trouble. Then, instead of marrying her, he drowns her. And we found out that it’s actually based on a true story. But the guy wasn’t convicted. He got off due to lack of evidence.
Lee: We do. In fact, we unearthed a song which evidently hadn’t
been heard in a long time. The song is called “I Saw A Sight All in
A Dream” sung and played by two brothers, Dave and Jim Couch
from Harlan County. We found it while we were looking for another song.
Bill: What song were you looking for?
Arvid: Another song by the Couch family called “Hiram Hubbard.”
It’s a song we did on the Wind Horses CD.
