Album Notes

We’re the Snake Brothers, an acoustic quintet who've been playing and singing together for over 25 years. Our wide-ranging material is a mix of old rock and roll, do-wop, a cappella, bluegrass, western, gospel, folk, and originals. We perform at festivals and municipal events in the Delaware Valley and beyond. We have appeared at the New Jersey Folk Festival, and provided the soundtrack for an NJN documentary, Bayshore Artists: Celebrating Our Sense of Place, where John’s song, South Jersey Waltz, was featured.

The Snake Brothers at Union Hall celebrates two firsts for us. This is our first live recording, and it’s our first recording with Ernie, who became a full-time member of the group a couple of years ago. We had a lot of fun at the concert and we think it shows in the finished product.

Our lineup is: John Langston, guitar, banjo, and resonator guitar; Rob Ward, mandolin, fiddle and guitar; Eric Waltman, acoustic and electric basses; Mark Ternosky, harmonica and guitar; and Ernie Trionfo, guitar and resonator guitar. We all sing, and a lot of our numbers feature four or five part harmony.