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Tony Allen cut his teeth playing fiddle on the streets and in the subway stations of Toronto, and while doing so he developed a strong interest in Appalachian music of the '20's and '30's. Along the way, he met many like-minded musicians, and since 1997, he has been performing regularly with The Backstabbers Country Stringband, adding his old-time style to a unique blend of honkytonk country, bluegrass rhythms and Carter family ballads. More recently, Tony has been performing every Monday night at The Local Pub on Roncesvalles Avenue in Toronto with Canadian bluegrass greats Chris Quinn and Marc Roy, and has formed an honest to goodness Old-Time stringband, The Good Right Arm, with Chris Coole playing clawhammer banjo and guitar, Kristine Schmitt singing her pure lead and harmony vocals, and Sam Petite playing bass. Tony is proud to announce the release of his first recording of Old-Time music, "STEAM", which is Tony's very personal take on a collection of rare gems from the early days of recorded rural music of the American South.
I just read Cary Fagan's article titled 'A Week In Hogtown' in the Old-Time Herald. It talks about Backstabbers, lots of Chris Coole, and features glowing descriptions of your record, as well as a large, super cool photo of Good Right Arm. Anyway, just thought I'd mention in case you didn't know about it. Congrats.
Howdy Tony! I wanted to drop you a note to thank you for taking the time to accept us as your friend, and listening to our music. We appreciate the gesture and are grateful that you enjoyed our tunes enough to add us to your community of friends. After all, having people connect with our music is why we do this. I hope you'll come by often to say hello and let us know what's happening with you, and when you have a spare moment, please visit our brand new webpage at www. crosstimbersbluegrass. com there you can listen to more of our music and find out more about us. Feel free to sign the guestbook! (And if you have any ideas about how we could improve the webpage, be sure to let us know)
All my best and thank you again, Matt (the bass player) Cross Timbers
I think I listened to your new record four, perhaps five times in the car yesterday. It's one of the best old time records I've heard, ever. Hats off to you guys and also to Mr. Kerr!
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Well, well old friend. We meet again. I'd love to get together and do some playing sometime. Hope things are well. It's been a long time since our days on old Dupont.
--J
