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Fiery Gizzard | Joseph Decosimo

Fiery Gizzard by Joseph Decosimo, released 15 August 2025 1. Ida Red 2. Glory in the Meetinghouse 3. Flowery Girls 4. I Had a Good Father and Mother 5. Shady Grove 6. Pretty Fair Maid 7. Billy Button 8. Puncheon Camps 9. The Queen of Rocky Ripple 10. Boatsman Old-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. As