This is an excerpt from the print edition of Dirty Linen #132 (October/November 2007).
The full article is in the magazine, available on newsstands, by subscription, and at the Dirty Linen webstore.

Charlie Pilzer

It's All Just Fun

by Steve Winick

During the Smithsonian's 2007 Festival of American Folklife, on an evening when Michael and David Doucet, Liz Carroll and John Doyle, and John Cephas and Phil Wiggins were all onstage, the sound crew got a big laugh: a reporter showed up to interview the monitor engineer, Charlie Pilzer. Bearded and bespectacled, with an easygoing look, a cheerful voice, and a preference for Hawaiian shirts, Pilzer doesn't look like a powerhouse. When he's onstage, with any of a number of local bands, Pilzer is usually in the back, behind a big stand-up bass. More often than that, he's offstage, mixing sound. But Pilzer is more than a soundman, more than a musician, more than a producer, and more than the best darn mastering engineer in the mid-Atlantic. He's the focal point at which a lot of the area's best music comes together, a GRAMMY-winning force of nature on the D.C. roots music scene.

This is an excerpt from the print edition of Dirty Linen #132 (October/November 2007).
The full article is in the magazine, available on newsstands, by subscription, and at the Dirty Linen webstore.

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