John Herald has been played on NTS in shows including The Uline Catalog w/ Calvin LeCompte, featured first on 2 June 2022. Songs played include Pretty Eyes.

John Herald (September 6, 1939 - July 18, 2005) was an American folk and bluegrass songwriter, solo and studio musician, and one-time member of The Greenbriar Boys trio.

Herald was born in Manhattan in 1939, to an Armenian born poet father. It was through him that Herald was first exposed to live performances by blues and folk legends Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie. While at a summer camp in 1954, Herald was inspired by a performance by Pete Seeger. During…