I laid some mandolin, electric guitar, and lap steel tracks for my friend Tom Winters’ new record with his band Consortium. He’s put four tracks from the CD up on his myspace page if’n you’re interested in hearing them. I’m on all four tracks playing one instrument or another. You can check it out at myspace.com/consortiumband.

The mandolin solo on ‘Harper’s Ferry’ is quite possibly the longest I’ve yet recorded. The teenage guitar solo on ‘Resolutions’ is quite possibly the most tasteless thing I’ve yet recorded.

It looks like we’re heading back to the studio in a little over a week to record a song for the Old Town School of Folk Music’s songbook project. The first volume is out now on Chicago’s Bloodshot Records. We’ll be recording a tune from the Old Town School of Folk Music’s songbook for possible inclusion on a future volume.

I don’t know much about Mr. Stripling. I stumbled across these recordings on the Library of Congress website because he recorded a song that shares the title of our new record. The recordings were made at a Georgia folk festival in 1941. You can browse the complete recordings and listen to individual titles here: loc.gov, or you can click the links below to hear some of the individual titles. He has a driving frailing banjo style, and a powerful voice. The songs are lovely.
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