Album Notes

The Close Enough String Band Has been surviving the brutal Phoenix, Arizona summers since 1993 playing and singing old-timey favorites of the Carter Family, Charlie Poole, and Stephen Foster in lush three and four part harmonies. There are six of us: David Baumann on guitar and mandolin, Barbara Herber on fiddle, Bobbie Bookhout on guitar, Pete Wilcox on bass, Bob Sandstedt on banjo and musical saw, and Rick Sonder on autoharp. We can usually be found bellowing at the state's four folk festivals, the metropolitan Phoenix acoustic circuit, and special events at arboretums, bookstores, and neighborhood fundraisers. The title song, Cold Weather Woman, will have special meaning to anyone who has passed through or lived in our sometimes stinking hot desert. Tuning a melange of stringed instruments when the breakfast temperatures hover near 105 is indeed a curious adventure which usually results with all hands in the air,"Close Enough!"