Henry Birdsey

Henry Birdsey is an American composer, multi-instrumentalist and recording engineer working in New England. He plays pedal and lap steel, fiddle, harmonica and bagpipes, and his solo records are slow, drone-based studies of tuning and texture. He is best known as the steel guitarist and lead composer of Old Saw, a loose collective of New England players. Old Saw, with Birdsey alongside banjo, fiddle, pipe organ, guitars and orchestral bells, debuted in 2021 with Country Tropics on Lobby Art, and later released The Wringing Cloth.