"Boxcar" Herb Manila mando-fiddle
Mike "Hobo" Hanson guit-fiddle
"Rollin'" Ralph Heymsfeld banjer-fiddle
"t-peg" basso-fiddle
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Influences
Bill Monroe, Flatt and Scruggs, Stevie Wonder, The Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, Kate Wolf, Doc Watson, Phish, Sullivan's Shack, Yonder Mountain String Band, The Avett Brothers....
Sounds Like
For some reason it sounds a lot like Acoustic Destruction... Just more organized.
Well met in the affluent open-mike scene of the greater D.C. area, the four six-string players of Over Under Down Yonder exchanged three of four guitars for a banjo, mandolin, and upright bass to sing their favorite bluegrass tunes. Thus, they down-sized from a band total of 24 strings to 23. But the loss of one string is easily overlooked and forgotten when T-Peg (bass), Rollin' Ralph (banjo), Hobo Hanson (guitar), and Boxcar Herb (mandolin) start picking, hell-bent on getting down to the business of acoustic Americana merrymaking. Blending traditional tunes with contemporary love-loss, Over Under Down Yonder croon, whoop, harmonize, bleed, and stomp their way through train tunes, horse hymns, corn liquor lullabies, moonshine melodies, and Shenandoah shanties. Playing this country’s oldest music, the boys of OUDY take this oral tradition all the way down — down town.
I was so sad to miss you guys this weekend:( Maybe you will play again soon...I don't know, maybe, in more of a bbq down home setting?? I am sure you rocked the joint (the bar, not a marijuana cigarette)!
CAN'T A GIRL GET A BASS PLAYER AROUND HERE???? Thanks again, guys, you are the best!
I just looked at your calendar and realized that I'll be in Denver for a library conference the day of your Washington Folk Festival performance. Shake a leg without me... be sure to hang out for a while in the area where they serve the "artists' lunch" and keep an eye out for the mutant who keeps refreshing the pickle tray.
"You never know what people are gonna make a run on. Last year, it was chips. Year 'fore that, Oreos. They like the double stuff. This year, looks like pickles."
