Album Notes

Down in the ravines of the South End, time stands still and the stills still stand. Its backwash, back porch denizens still hoe their gardens, chop their wood, erect their cabins, build their boats, and play their music with the neighbors. The South End may well be a culture on its way out the back screen door of the 20th century, but not without a fight.

Sit with us a spell and imagine a time that's paced to a rhythm tuned to the seasons and the tides. 'Course, you sit with us very long and you'll be quittin' your job too. You let these hedonists fetch up a jug of Erich's Moonshine Merlot, it ain't too long till you think workin's for damn fools.

A smart fella knows when it's quittin' time, and the rest of us think it's always that time. In the immortal words of Sleeter Daddle: When the jug's empty, boys, it's time to face the music.

We're the South End String Band, and we ain't goin' nowhere. Fast. If you're ever down our way, drop on by. You know how to find us.

Mike Hilley - mandolin
Rebecca Fletcher - hammered dulcimer
Jim Karr - bass
Wende Hilyard - mountain dulcimer
Chaim Bezalel - guitar/autoharp
Paul Platis - guitar
Bill Gum - bass
Monika Denasha - guitar/banjo
John Muhler - percussion
Erich Schweiger - fiddle
Jack Archibald - banjo

Skeeter Daddle - spiritual advisor
Recorded and mixed by Mark Dodge, Big Quack Productions

Copyright 2004, The South End String Band