Peddler's French
Philadelphia Phil & Matt Scutchfield

Songs and stories from a rare master songwriter, recording artist and performer,

played by world class acoustic multi-instrumentalists

Peddler's French is a bit of a misdemeanor, a conspiracy of street-saavy operators, their larcenies picking the pockets of traditional folk music, burglarizing bluegrass and blues, stealing swing and western artifacts to produce a completely original swag bag of new music

Peddler's French Releases Trail Angels
Packed with songs of Alaskan huskies, mushers, bush pilots & wild places.
Limited Edition

Co-written with veteran dog sled racer, writer and lecturer, Karen Land, Trail Angels takes listeners on an album-length journey into the wild north to experience the lives of mushers, Alaskan huskies, bush pilots, and more.

Peddler's French founders Philadelphia Phil and Matt Scutchfield assembled a multi-generational ensemble of acoustic players and singers, gathering artists from throughout the US for a series of studio recording sessions completed over a one-year period.

All songs on the album were inspired by brave and beloved dogs, and real-life mushing adventures in Alaska, Canada, and the Lower 48.

Dramatic cover image by official Iditarod photographer, Jeff Schultz.

Produced by Philadelphia Phil and Matt Scutchfield

All songs written by Phillip Henry Christopher and Karen Land

Photos by Jeff Schultz: SchultzPhoto.com

Art Direction and Design by Bruce Lampe

Peddler's French: philadelphiaphil.com

Karen Land: stringofdogs.com

CD and digital download available at:

https://peddlersfrench.bandcamp.com/album/trail-angels

Chili Beans, Beer & Acoustic Guitars

It all started in the winter of 1975 at Old Lady Faibane's Housekeeping Cottages in the Poconos

A twenty year old Philadelphia scene poet and his acoustic guitar-picking friends went on a getaway to the mountains.

A weekend became a week when deep snow closed the roads.

There was homemade chili, cases of Old Latrobe, and many a song to sing. Strumming away for hours, the musicians inspired the young poet. He asked them to show him something on the guitar, learning his first licks on an old Gibson 12-string. A few days later he bought a second-hand acoustic, tossed it in the back of a beat-up '63 VW Beetle, and left for Mardi Gras. When he got back five months later Phil knew a handful of chords and a bunch of Hank Williams tunes. It wasn't long before he was writing songs and singing to folks all around the city.

Since that time he's performed from Key West to Canada, California to New England. It's been a minute since a surprise blizzard and a good friend's guitar got him started, but Philadelphia Phil just keeps singing, playing, writing, recording and performing. And like the one-of-a-kind tone of a vintage instrument, his songs just get sweeter and sweeter with each change of season.