Team
Emily Cohen, Producer / Director
Emily Cohen follows her curiosity. She is executive director of KHOL, Jackson Hole, Wyoming’s award-winning public radio station. She briefly studied fiddle at East Tennessee State University where she performed Liza Jane as part of her audition. Her film Camina Conmigo (Walk with Me) was a winner in the If/Then x Redford Center Nature Connection pitch competition at the 2023 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival.
Dan Gutstein, Producer / Director
Dan Gutstein tells it blank verse lovely as vocalist for punk band Joy on Fire. He is the author of eight books and chapbooks — including POOR GAL, about the “Liza Jane” family of songs, which was published in November 2023 by University Press of Mississippi — as well as stories and poems that have appeared in American Scholar, Ploughshares, Best American Poetry, The Penguin Book of the Sonnet, and The Iowa Review, among others.
Dom Flemons, Narrator, Host, Musician
Narrator, musician and host Dom Flemons is a Grammy winner, two-time Emmy nominee, and United States Artists Fellow. Known as The American Songster he is expert player on the banjo, guitar, harmonica, jug, percussion, quills, fife and rhythm bones. He is the co-founder of the Carolina Chocolate Drops and the founder of American Songster Productions. His most recent album is Traveling Wildfire on Smithsonian Folkways (2023).
Erich Roland, Director of Photography
Erich Roland is a widely experienced cinematographer. He filmed the music documentaries Deep Blues and Gospel According to Al Green, and was Director of Photography on It Might Get Loud, Entertaining the Troops, The Final Year, Waiting For Superman, From the Sky Down, Steep, and He Named Me Malala. He was camera operator on Academy Award-winning Driving Miss Daisy and cinematographer for The Johnstown Flood, which also won an Oscar for best documentary short subject.
Kenny Siegal, Sound ENgineer
Audio engineer and owner of Old Soul Studios Kenny Siegal will be leading the sound engineering and recording, using classic vintage analog equipment and tape machines in tandem with cutting-edge, industry-standard digital recording gear. Siegal has produced albums for dozens of notable musicians including Ratatat, The Wiyos, Beirut, Neko Case, Langhorne Slim, The Lemonheads, and The New Pornographers.
Jonathan McHugh, Associate Producer
Producer Jonathan McHugh holds the Hilton-Baldridge Eminent Scholar/Chair in Music Industry Studies at Loyola University in New Orleans. McHugh is a veteran independent TV and film producer/director/music supervisor and has produced films and TV shows with and about some of pop culture’s biggest stars including Justin Bieber, Britney Spears, Janis Joplin, Snoop Dogg, Muhammad Ali, and Ludacris.
Roy AnDrade, Associate Producer
Producer Roy Andrade has focused his career on Southern old-time banjo music. He was the banjo player for the popular string band Reeltime Travelers, and has played with a number of other ensembles. His years of fieldwork have led to the release of several recordings, including the Doc Watson Family box set, Milestones (released 2013). Roy is currently an assistant professor in Bluegrass, Old Time, and Country Music Studies at East Tennessee State University, one of the few schools of higher education that offers a bachelor's degree in traditional American music.