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Acceptance Mark

The new CD entitled Cabin Fever
is scheduled for release in the
summer of 2008.

The Cabin Fever Team

(click to enlarge)
Back: Bill Gum, Erich Schweiger, Jack Archibald, Wende Hilyard; Rebecca Fletcher, Thomas Kemper (recordist), Front: Paul Platis, Monika Denasha, Chaim Bezalel, John Muhler, Mark Dodge (mixologist)

NOTE: The Cabin Fever CD represents the second collaboration between Big Quack Records and The Audio Vortex (Here on Island Time was the first). Thomas Kemper handed the recording of all the tracks, and Mark Dodge mixed 'em down. You're welcome, ears.


Camano Island's South End String Band are locally famous for presenting a live program of mountain bluegrass and front-porch swing music, peppered with down-home wit and wisdom. Catch 'em live while you can!

Hear some sample song clips on the CD Baby page

The South End String Band, al fresco

The South End String Band is:
Mike Hilley – mandolin
Rebecca Fletcher – hammered dulcimer
Jim Karr – bass
Wende Hilyard – Paul and Bill - Photo by Vicki Dodgemountain 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

The South Enders have recorded CDs
Rye-cheer at ol' Quacky Studios:

The South End String Band - Victims of Unbridled AmbitionVictims of Unbridled
Ambition
(2005) - $15

The second record from the South Enders takes you to, in the words of spiritual advisor Skeeter Daddle,  "... a geography of the imagination where the porches go on forever, the jug is never empty, and the avante-gardens sprout weeds more exotic than any suburban flower."

Songlist:

  1. South End Blues
  2. Jerusalem Ridge
  3. Growling Old Man, Cackling Old Woman
  4. Nine Hundred Miles
  5. Kesh Jig
  6. Old Plank Road
  7. Honey, You Led Me to the Wrong
  8. Bill Cheatum
  9. West Virginia
  10. Pretty Little Dog
  11. Old Mother Flanagan
  12. Mark setting microphones - Photo by Vicki DodgeBarlow Knife
  13. 8th of January
  14. Swallowtail Jig
  15. Lonesome Road Blues
  16. Frosty Morning
  17. Love Farewell

The South End String Band CD Cover - Legends in Their Own MindsLegends
In Their
Own Minds

(2004)

This is the first record from The CD was recorded live at good ol' Quacky Studios and is released under the band's own South End String Brand label.

Songlist:
Hear some sample song clips on the CD Baby page

  1. SeSB in session at Quacky Studios - Photo by Mark DodgeJune Apple
  2. Little Maggie
  3. Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine
  4. Old Joe Clark
  5. The Cuckoo
  6. Star of the County Down
  7. Bile That 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

Recorded and mixed by Mark Dodge
Copyright 2004, 2005, The South End String Band
 

 

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