THE SOUTH END STRING BAND: Legends In Their Own Minds

The South End String Band

Legends In Their Own Minds

© 2004 The South End String Band (format: CD-R)

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Mountain bluegrass, old-timey, foot-tappin tunes from the hills of Camano Island in beautiful Puget Sound, Washington. Big Quack Records.

tracks

1 June Apple
2 Little Maggie
3 Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine
4 Old Joe Clark
5 Cuckoo
6 Star of the County Down
7 Bile Them Cabbage Down
8 Kitchen Girl
9 Cripple Creek
10 Angeline the Baker
11 Cluck Old Hen
12 Shady Grove
13 Shortnin' Bread
14 Red Haired Boy
15 Wayfaring Stranger
16 Ashokan Farewell

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

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  • Where have these guys been ?
    author: Richard MacKinnon

    The music, the music, the music. The South Enders tickle the strings and in turn tickle your brain. These guys will soon be legends in everybody's minds! Get this stuff on the radio, now! Can't wait for a live performance DVD!

  • Where have these guys been all this time ?
    author: Richard MacKinnon

    The music, the music, the music. The South Enders tickle the strings and in turn tickle your brain. These guys will soon be legends in everybody's minds! Get this stuff on the radio, now! Can't wait for a live performance DVD!

  • Great big ditties from the Legendary South End and a Guiness make life enjoyable
    author: Chad McCoy

    Great big ditties from the Legendary South End along with a Guiness make life enjoyable! American Idol can't touch the true talent found deep in the stinging nettles of the end of civilization on Camano.

  • author: Trobec Studio

    When words can't explain the meaning of life, we turn to the esoteric. The South Enders' pray their music loud.

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