FOGHORN STRINGBAND: Rattlesnake Tidal Wave

Foghorn Stringband

Rattlesnake Tidal Wave

© 2002 Foghorn Stringband (751937220923)

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Foghorn Leghorn plays traditional mountain fiddle tunes and high-spirited Appalachian dance music. "Foghorn is at the forefront of Portland's vibrant Old Time revival." - Willamette Week.

tracks

1 Lost Girl
2 Lost Indian
3 Drunkard's Dream
4 Policeman
5 Grey Eagle
6 Fine Times At Our House
7 Rocky Pallet
8 Roving Gambler - Jaybird in the Ashbrook
9 Jim Short's Tune
10 Lacy Brown
11 Willie Moore
12 New Broom
13 Cherry River
14 Three Forks of The Cumberland
15 Courting Days Waltz
16 Let Me Fall
17 Sherburn's Breakdown
18 Pretty Little Dog
19 Farther Along
20 Hucklberry Blues

notes

Sammy Lind, after an hour of sleep, crawled out of his sleeping bag, and scrambled to find his sunglasses. His hand instead found a bramble of "Goatheads" a stubborn variety of desert thorns that plagued the dry ground. He spit out some profanities as he dug the thorns out of his palm, tossed the glasses onto his face to shield him from the relentlessly hot desert sun. Sleep was hopeless. He cracked open a can of energy drink and took a swig of its penicillin popsicle flavor. With his hangover, the flavor of the energy drink alone was too much, so he emptied the contents of a flask into the can, filling the un-likely mixture to the top. The drink hit the spot. The whiskey soothed his head, while the caffeine gave him strength to pick up his fiddle. Thus the popular drink "The Weiser Sunrise" was born.

The fiddling brought to life the neighboring hung-over musicians, and a surly yet smiling string band formed, and began to pound out some driving mountain tunes. All day and late into the night this music persisted.

The energy of that serendipitous band that formed in those days stuck with the fellas. They knew there was more to the music than the product of heat, sleep depravation and sleazy cocktails. Something clicked out there in that thorn ridden vacant lot behind the Weiser, Idaho National Old-Time Fiddler's Festival.

So when CALEB KLAUDER (of Calobo) got on the phone a few months later to round up the said group, everybody thought it would be a fine idea. The band has been building on that initial inspiration ever since. Along with Caleb's powerful vocals, he adds driving, biting rhythm and melody on mandolin and guitar. The REV. P.T. GROVER (of Pig Iron) adds a steady machine-gun claw hammer banjo, as well as his own 3 finger style that leaves folks scratching their heads trying to figure out whether it sounds more like old Bluegrass or Old-Time-Mountain style. Kevin Sandri (of the Crooked Jades, Blue Rooster) hits the guitar hard in between playful bass runs. BRIAN BAGDONAS (of The Dickel Brothers) provides rocking foundation on the up-right bass. And of coarse the aforementioned STEPHEN "SAMMY" LIND, (of Pocket Lumber from Minneapolis) who aside from his resourcefulness in cocktail mixing leads the band with powerful high-octane fiddling that constantly takes the band to a new level. So hold on tight, grab yourself a "Weiser Sunrise" and enjoy the Old-Time Tunes and Songs of Foghorn Stringband.

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  • author: George O'Connell

    I am a fan of traditional irish music so I went to the baltimore fiddle fair last may where I came across foghorn duo. Now I'm hooked on their music

  • Hard To Put Down
    author: David Beane

    I didn't know much about Foghorn before I got this CD and I was blown away! Man have I been missing out! The only problem is that now when I want to listen to some music, it's hard to pick something else and keep from listening to this one over and over...

  • Rattlesnake Tidal Wave
    author: Kathie Blanton

    Very pleased and looking forward to purchasing more music from Foghorn Stringband

  • True Grit
    author: Wisconsin

    Somewhere down on the vast and smokey Pacific shore, some slick wet varmint is nosing along the water, flipping over stones. Here now, it gives a special snouty sniff to a just-flipped stone, upon the bottom of which is eroded the near-inscrutable legend, "Foghorn Stringband." The varmint can't read, but yet, he switches his tail back and forth in time to the waves and snappily munches snails. Somewhere a band of city-dwellers plays the strings, their music sounding gritty as stone, dense and warm as otter fur, steady as the grinding sea. And the Foghorn sounds...pretty durn good. If the waves and the seas and the city streets are something you call good. If you are a music lover, that is, and not a hapless gastropod being munched by a wet sea otter who is reading stones and listening to the waves.

  • Awesome
    author: Robert Hoisington

    I'm sitting here at work and I can't get "Roving Gambler" out of my head! Absolutely awesome album! I'll be picking more CD's of this band quickly!

  • Fido says ...
    author: Black Diamond Dave

    My dog has no nose. How does he smell? He can't, I told you he has no nose, but if he had vocal cords he would tell you to march right down to CDBABY.com and buy Foghorn Stringband's CD "Rattlesnake Tidal Wave". Wait a minute! You're already at CDBABY.com and aren't you in fact sitting here checking out this album? Well there you go. What more proof do you need?

  • Rockin' to my notion....
    author: Charmaine - in Seattle

    Wholly mholly! I've had their 2nd album since the 2005 Old Time Festival in Portland, where they rocked the house - but I'm stoked now that I've got both! It certainly fuels the cloggin'! Can't wait to hear what these guys cook up next...

  • Foot stomping music
    author: BJ

    I saw the Foghorn String Band live at Interlochen Michigan and just had to have some of their music. It's refreshing to have some real music! and great vocals!

  • A good listen
    author: David

    A great antidote for gloomy winter weather. It's impossible to just sit when this is playing. You can really get into it. A word of caution, don't play while driving. You will find yourself speeding.

  • awesome and upbeat....more vocals, cover rocks, cute guys
    author: Elizabeth Morrison

    I like the cd, it makes me want to get up and dance! Really Really fun to listen to. Could use more of the vocals that I know this band has:) PEACE

  • The CD is great! A wonderful compilation of foot stoppin music.
    author: Sandy "Bink" Ewing

    The CD is great! A wonderful compilation of foot stoppin music. The music takes you way, way back in time. Such a great sound. It surprises me that this sound is from a group located in Portland, OR. The sound is pure Appalachian.

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