We’re in the home stretch for our as-yet-untitled 3rd CD. Here’s the probable track list:

• California
• Short Life of Trouble
• The Logjam
• Sandy River Belle
• Pain in My Heart
• Trishanku’s Heaven
• The Takeup Reel/ Cold Frosty Morning/ Grey Eagle
• Pick Poor Robin Clean
• Listen to the Mockingbird
• Little Sadie
• Dead Flowers
• Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar
• Join the British Army
• Mississippi Trashboat

Alexander Gelfand, who penned the introduction to our nearly-out-of-print first CD, is on board to write the liner notes.

Some entirely unuseful stats:

• Number of tracks: 14
• Running time: 42 minutes
• Number of vocal numbers: 10
• Number of instrumental numbers: 4
• Number of times the word number appeared in the previous two lines: 4
• Number of original compositions: 5
• Number of traditional or cover tunes: 9
• Number of songs featuring the accordion: 2
• Number of tunes featuring the erhu: 1
• Number of jaw harps or didgeridoos brought to the studio in hopes of sneaking them into a song when no one was paying attention: 2
• Number of songs featuring the jaw harp and/or didgeridoo: 0*
• Number of tunes in f# minor: 2 (Logjam and Trishanku)
• Number of tunes with bird references in the title: 3
• Number of tunes that have a thing that the band refers to as “the thing”: 2 (Dead Flowers and Short Life of Trouble)

* this injustice must be made right by overdubbing jaw harp and/ or didgeridoo solos on every tune, no matter how inappropriate.