Album Notes

Hailing from San Francisco, The Knuckle Knockers stoke the fires of the Appalachian music tradition to give you a glimpse of the past through the eyes of the present, with voice, fiddles, mandolin, guitar and 5 string banjo.

Bill Foss's nimble and masterful playing, Stairwell Sisters stalwart Martha Hawthorne's crisp guitar work and vocals, and Karen Celia Heil's emotive playing that’s a confluence of the past and the playful, all go neck and neck, knuckle to knuckle on lightning dance tunes, stories told in song, and magical harmonies.

The California Bluegrass Association's newspaper The Bluegrass Breakdown calls the Knuckle Knockers "one of the city's foremost Old-Time string bands" that gets "even the stodgiest audience tapping their toes and bouncing in their seats." They describe a Knuckle Knocker performance as "Old-Time music played expertly" as well as "rich, complex and innovative."