Jeff Place

Jeff Place (born 1956) is an American writer and producer, and a curator and senior archivist with the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. He has won three Grammy Awards and six Indie Awards. After college, Place worked in a record store in Washington, D.C. and started writing reviews for the store's magazine, REVUE.

Place has been involved in the compilation of more than sixty albums of American music for Smithsonian Folkways. Grammy Awards, Best Historical Album, 1998 – Anthology of American Folk Music Grammy Awards, Best Historical Album (nominee), 2013 – Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection International Bluegrass Music Awards, Best Liner Notes, 2019 – Epilogue: A Tribute to John Duffey Grammy Awards, Best Historical Album, 2020 – Pete Seeger: The Smithsonian Centennial Collection Jazz Fest: The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival (5-CD set and book). Smithsonian Folkways, 2019. (co-author and producer) The Social Power of Music (4-CD set and book). Smithsonian Folkways, 2019 (co-author and producer) A Living Tradition: A Selection from Folk-Legacy Records. Smithsonian Folkways, 2019 (liner notes) Take Me Back to the Range: Selections from the Western Jubilee Recording Company. Smithsonian Folkways, 2020 (liner notes) The Village Out West: The Lost Tapes of Alan Oakes. Smithsonian Folkways, 2021 (co-producer and liner notes Playing for the Man at the Door: Field Recordings from the Collection of Mack McCormick, 1958-1971