Big-name Musicians Who Have Recorded With A Mountain Dulcimer
- Joni Mitchell played a dulcimer on the 1971 album Blue and included a dulcimer set in many of her live performances. She is credited with popularizing the instrument outside of US folk music circles in the 1970s.
- Many British folk-rock groups of the late 1960s and early 1970s featured the mountain dulcimer, including:
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- Battlefield Band
- Pentangle
- Fairport Convention
- Steeleye Span (Tim Hart frequently played electric dulcimer on the band's early albums, most prominently on Hark! The Village Wait (1970) and Please to See the King (1971))
- Strawbs
- Cyndi Lauper plays the mountain dulcimer on A Night to Remember (1989), Sisters of Avalon (1996),
"Time after time" live at The Martha Steward Show The Body Acoustic (2005) and Avo Session (2008).
- An Appalachian dulcimer is prominent in the Rolling Stones songs "Lady Jane" and I Am Waiting; it was played by Brian Jones.
Read more about this topic: List Of Appalachian Dulcimer Players
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