Elizabeth Butters-vocals, dulcimer, and guitar.
Frank Hoier plays guitar on "Shake Sugaree."
Recent and upcoming performances include David Goligorsky and Dave Lamb on a variety of instruments, most notably the musical saw.
Influences
Southern ring games, field recordings, and country lore. Jean Ritchie, Mimi & Richard Farina, Bob Dylan, John Jacob Niles, Joan Baez, Leadbelly, Dave Van Ronk, Jim Kweskin & the Jug Band.
Sounds Like
A bird chirping about death? (Only when I sing the minor key songs.)
I was born in the wrong era. I suffer from nostalgia and false sympathies with the past. I identify with the thirties, the highways and open roads, the dust bowl, and Bonnie & Clyde. I’m sad that “email” is part of my vocabulary. The only things I prefer to be new have expiration dates, like food or pharmaceuticals.
here's another first for you, miss: playing "shake sugaree" at full volume across the arabic deserts of iraq last night, the convoy drivers and tired marines staring out at the music, staring out and listening hard after such a long days work.
JIM MORRISSEY here to remind you NEVER to be fooled by cheap imitations! such as..... ALANIS MORRISSEY JIM MORRISSETTE VAN MORRISSEY
as every true fan knows there's only one JIM MORRISSEY! have a rocking weekend my friend. heavy metal hugs~N~country/western kisses, THE Officially UnOfficial JIM MORRISSEY Fan Site
Thanks for accepting my friendship. Great Classic Tunes and Alan Lomax in your top friends - can't get any better that that!!! Keep up the great work my new friend!!!
Congratulations on the Stampfel show.The Holy's recycled a lot of material from old Arhoolie lps. One in particular, "Rompin' in the SwamP" was a funny makeover of an old Harry Choates tune from your favorite period.
http://www. brobrubru. com/ is url for Bruce Langhorne another person from the early Passim days who worked with Tom Rush and others. He is the guitarist on that Rush train song, "The Panama Limited"
If you ever have a chance to interview Chris Strachwitz, I highly reccommend it while he is still with us, we'll not see his like again. And he is a fun interview.
