Kicked Up a Devil of a Row, by Hog-eyed Man (featuring Maxine Gerber, Brendan Doyle & David Bragger)

Kicked Up a Devil of a Row

by Hog-eyed Man (featuring Maxine Gerber, Brendan Doyle & David Bragger)

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1.	Kicked Up a Devil of a Row 02:34	info	buy track
2.	Brad Walters 02:27	info	buy track
3.	Nancy Dawson 02:58	info	buy track
4.	Isolation 02:37	info	buy track
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8.	Boone's Wagoner 02:16	info	buy track
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14.	Walking the Water 02:27	info	buy track
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"The new Hog-Eyed Man album is glorious! I’ve been a superfan ever since their first CD, and their recordings are among my all-time favorites, on constant play at my house. “Kicked Up a Devil of a Row” may be my favorite yet! Such a great collection of tunes, beautiful arrangements, and the most gorgeous album cover, too! Jason and Rob share heartfelt artistry in the oldest sounds of Appalachian music, and with room for creativity and brilliant inspiration. Absolutely wonderful!"

--Jimmy Triplett

On this, our fifth full album of Southern oldtime music, Rob and I are joined by honorary West Coast Hog-eyed Man bandmates Maxine Gerber, Brendan Doyle, and David Bragger. I became friends with Max and Brendan during trips to Clifftop (i.e., the Appalachian String Band Festival held in Camp Washington Carver, West Virginia, at the end of every summer) starting in 2016, where whiskey and chocolate fueled many a late-night jam with one or the other of them on banjo. Rob's first chance to play with them came when Hog-eyed Man flew out to California to play at the Santa Barbara Old-Time Fiddlers Festival in 2019, with Max and Brendan joining us on stage and in campsite jams. Following the festival, Rob and I drove down the coast to record a few tunes (not for this current project) at David Bragger's famed Old-Time Tiki Parlour studio in north Los Angeles. The seeds for a full-length release with our California friends were planted during that trip ... but then the pandemic happened, and the project went into an indefinite holding pattern.

Somehow, in the summer of 2021, many stars aligned. All of us got vaccinated against COVID-19. The Delta and Omicron variants were yet to emerge. My extended relatives finally were able to schedule memorial services in Southern California for two dear family members who passed on just before the pandemic. Rob's kids had a two-week sleep-away camp at roughly the same time. David had no other imminent recording projects on tap, and Maxine and Brendan were available too. So in the small window that those circumstances opened up, we all converged on the Bragger household for almost four full days of rehearsals, recording, late night jams, and communal meals with David and his wonderful family, often also joined by fiddler Susan Platz. At the time, we thought we were past the pandemic, but it turned out to be just the eye of the storm. Looking back, it feels like a dream - the best kind of dream - and we remain so grateful that things somehow fell into place and we all took the opportunity to make music together when we could.

In the end, we came away with almost two dozen tunes; a pretty good haul for a couple days of collaboration with friends we hadn't seen since 2019. If vou're familiar with our previous albums, or the ethos that guides the many wonderful releases David has recorded at the Parlour, you know that we are less interested in perfection and polish than in spirit and authenticity. There are never any overdubs, edits, or other studio magic.

That approach, especially when playing with folks we almost never get to play with, results in an interesting atmosphere of both intense focus and spontaneity. On many tunes you'll hear me calling out "one more time" or something along those lines - what you would hear if this were a campfire jam - while at the same time we are listening to each other intently, deeply focused on how each individual part locks in with the others to form the full, unified group sound. We played each tune a few times and then moved on to the next, not even listening back to pick best takes until months later, when we were back home in Georgia.

As for the music we chose for this project, all of these tunes have special significance. Many are sourced from the past giants of the tradition, particularly from the region of western NC where I was born and raised. Quite a few pieces were learned from Bruce Greene, my neighbor growing up in the South Toe Valley, either directly or from recordings of the many wonderful fiddlers from eastern KY that he helped discover in the 1970s. A small handful of the tunes were picked up during travels to other communities near and far, from Chapel Hill, NC, to Doolin, Ireland. We love all these tunes and hope that the joy, gratitude, sadness, and excitement we felt in that small snapshot of time in the middle summer of 2021 comes through.

We dedicate this project to our dear friend and inspiration, Art Rosenbaum (1938-2022). Connecting the past and the present, always.

Thanks for listening.

-Jason

credits

released July 14, 2023

Jason Cade - fiddle
Rob McMaken - lap dulcimer, mandolin, banjo-uke
Maxine Gerber - banjo (tracks 2,4,8,9,13,16,17)
Brendan Doyle - banjo (tracks 3,6,12,14,18,21,22)
David Bragger - guitar (tracks 8,13,16,19,22)

Produced by David Bragger & Rick Hocutt
Engineering and Mixing - David Bragger, Tiki Parlour Recordings Mastering - Joseph "Joebass" Dejarnette (Studio 808A)
Art and Graphic Design - Howard Rains
Tune Notes - Jason Cade and Rob McMaken
Photographs - David Bragger

All tunes on this album are public domain, arranged by Jason Cade and Rob McMaken.

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Hog-eyed Man Athens, Georgia

Hog-eyed Man is an acoustic oldtime duo comprised of Jason Cade (fiddle) & Rob McMaken (lap dulcimer, mando, guitar). Drawing primarily on the archaic tunes and pre-radio aesthetics of Southern Appalachia, the duo has forged a compelling and authentic style of traditional music, both reflecting deep respect for the past masters and carrying the musical conversation forward to the present era. ... more

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