Album Notes

From Eclectone Records, The Mad Ripple is the nom de guerre of longtime Minneapolis writer (www.citypages.com) and music lover (www.walshfiles.com) Jim Walsh (Laughing Stock, REMs). He is helped on his debut CD Sink and/or Swim by his brothers Jay Walsh (The Neglecters) and Terry Walsh (The Belfast Cowboys, Terry Walsh and 2 a.m., The Altared Boys) and his friends Jeaneen Gauthier (Jan, The Autumn Leaves), Rusty Jones (NNB, Safety Last, Front Porch Swingin' Liquor Pigs, Rockin' Pinecones, Curtiss A), Jim Tollefsrud (NNB, Safety Last, Twa Corbies, Front Porch Swingin' Liquor Pigs), Marc Perlman (The Neglecters, The Jayhawks, Golden Smog), Tim O'Reagan (The Leatherwoods, The Jayhawks), Jim Boquist (Good Joe, Son Volt, Paul Westerberg and His Only Friends), Dave Boquist(Son Volt, many others), Dave Krejci (Green Machine, The Reverend Angus Strychn, inventor of The Cleophone), Woody McBride (DJ ESP), Laura Mackenzie (Celtic music goddess) and all three strapping lads from The Gleam.