With our rock steady guitarman Scott Judd taking a much-needed vacation this week, we’re going to have my old Kennett Brothers bandmate Andy Leach fill in for a gig. Andy is an excellent guitarist, and one of the best harmony singers I know. As I was going through a stack of old CDs, I found some pre-Tangleweed demos that Andy and I recorded with our friend Randy Vickers in October, 2003.

There are three tracks, all instrumentals:

1. Salt River/ June Apple - Andy and I both play guitar on this one, in which I pilfer Doc Watson licks with reckless abandon. Salt River was the first fiddle tune I ever learned, and Tangleweed does a nice version of it that we haven’t recorded yet.
2. Morning Glory Waltz - Andy plays mandolin on this one, with me on guitar. This is a very nice old string band tune that we learned it from a recording by an old African-American string band with the unfortunate name of the Mississippi Mudsteppers.
3. Jackson Stomp - I break out the banjolin on this one, an instrument that engineer Randy described as sounding like “an angry chicken”. Another Mississippi Mudsteppers tune.

All the songs are public domain, please feel free to redistribute so long as the performer credits remain intact.