Joshua Farber, aka boyhowdy, has several degrees in sociology, communications, and cultural studies, and a vast curiosity about how humans borrow, create, and share texts and cultural artifacts to build and maintain community. In addition to writing and producing all-covers, all-folk-and-roots website Cover Lay Down, he hosts house concerts, directs and performs in local theater productions, writes award-winning poetry, and teaches English and Media Literacy at an inner city high school in Massachusetts.