Jim Couza

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Jim Couza is an American hammered dulcimer player born in Massachusetts, and resident in England since 1982. In addition to the hammered dulcimer, Couza also plays Appalachian dulcimer and guitar. He has made several recordings, both solo and with the D'Uberville Ramblers. He has also worked with Björk on the album Post, and with Peter Gabriel on OVO (Couza is featured on a track called "The Time Of The Turning (reprise) / Weavers Reel"). He has also worked with Celtic singer songwriter Jim Fox, performing at many venues and festivals around the UK. Couza has suffered a number of health problems in recent years resulting in amputation of both his legs, but he is recovering well and still performing. (Yikes! Both legs!? Just like that dude in New Bedford.)

Jim was one of the early musicians at Tryworks Coffeehouse in New Bedford Ma. USA. In those days he played a well used but good sounding Gibson guitar and a banjo and sang mostly British Isles music with a distinctive voice. He was living in Acushnet MA in the early '70s when he started to play the hammer dulcimer.

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Angels Hoverin' Round, Folktrax FTX-909 (1972)
Brightest And Best, Greenwich Village GVR211 (1982)
Music For The Hammered Dulcimer (aka The Enchanted Valley) (with Eileen Monger), Saydisc CD-SDL335 (1983)
Friends & Neighbors, Greenwich Village GVR221 (1983)
Appalachian Beach Party (with the D'Uberville Ramblers), Dragon Records, DRGNCD922 (1992)
Out Of The Shadowlands, Folksound Records, FSCD14 (1993)