Album Notes

Swamp Cabbage presents truly American music in that the songs paint images of the Southern US areas that inspired them. - the Northeast Florida palmetto thickets and the Louisiana gator water. Founded by North Florida native Walter Parks, the Swamp Cabbage fatback electric ragtime sound is a raunchy foot-stompin' tip of the hat to Tom Waits, Billy Gibbons and Dr John. Swamp Cabbage is new Southern music - different from, yet in keeping with, the North Mississippi All Stars and Mofro. This year bandleader Walter Parks attained national popularity by hot wiring the PA systems in every US minor league baseball park. He did so in order to play Swamp Cabbage's version of "Frankenstien" on the tenor banjo just as the national anthem singer would take to the microphone. Thousands of copies of Swamp Cabbage's Honk have sold henceforth. Drummer Jagoda is what the New York underground calls a "Bayou Boy". He makes the lion's share of his living on wee hour poaching runs in the Bronx Zoo. Jagoda etherizes snakes, turtles and night frogs with his Bar-Mitzvah style rhumba beats - luring the reptiles to their slaughter to meet the demands of New York's designer fashion market. Mathew Lee Lindsey, on red bass from from Chickamauga, GA, is a direct descendant of General Robert E. Lee's personal battlefield trumpeteer Olieus Witherspoon Linsdey III. Matt is freshly returned from touring deep south debutante balls in support of his first release "Civil War Hymns for Her". This dance sensation is performed completely on solo unplugged electric solid body bass.