Lee Hunter and Arvid Smith are musical alchemists. With their finely crafted songs and inspired arrangements of traditional tunes from both sides of the Atlantic, their music is a joyous collision of down-home, back-porch, "Oh Brother" simplicity and world beat vibes. Theirs is a forward-looking vision, soulful and heartfelt with complete reverence for the tradition, that captures the folk roots of a Doc Watson and the expansive world-music palette of a Loreena McKennitt, with a touch of Robert Fripp style "guitar-tronics" tastefully applied.

Tammerlin's roots go back to 1989 in Jacksonville, Florida, where Smith and Hunter were drawn together by a shared love of folk and world music. Soon they were gently pushing the boundaries of traditional folk music as they played clubs, coffeehouses, colleges and festivals throughout the eastern United States, and shared the stage with such artists as The Band, Emmylou Harris, Dar Williams, Alex De Grassi and Doc Watson.

Tammerlin's debut CD, the self-released Roll Down Thy Window drew critical acclaim from Dirty Linen and Folk Roots, a prominent European folk and world music magazine. The album was featured on the BBC World Service, and one track was chosen by Folk Roots for inclusion on its folk and world music compilation, "Froots #6".

The duo continued their trademark now-mystical, now-rootsy sound with their second CD, Third Weeks A 'lighnin', released in December 1996 on the Binky Records label. Lee and Arvid continued to tour and found their music in demand at such venues as the Millennium Stage at the Kennedy Center and the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC, Piccolo Spoleto in Charleston, South Carolina, and a number of eastern US music and art festivals.

Their newst CD, Wind Horses features a number of Hunter's stylistically-varied original songs and superb arrangements of some traditional material. Of particular note is the joyful energy of the title track "Wind Horses", as well as an ensemble driven reading of the famous 1966 Aberfan, Wales mining tragedy, "Teacher David Beynon", and several Civil War-era ballads.

The Daytona Beach News Journal says of Wind Horses, "Tammerlin have taken folk's roots and majestically nurtured them into the 21st century". Jacksonville's Folio Weekly states, "Hunter and Smith are experts in their field, channeling folkloric song in new and challenging ways", and Dirty Linen Magazine has described the duo as simply "captivating".