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Hog-eyed Man has always been more of a concept than a band, and the CDs we’ve released are more than just collections of tunes. Each volume is an opportunity to cherish the old sounds learned from musicians mostly now long gone, who themselves were once keeping alive the music and memories of yet earlier Appalachian fiddlers, on back to the brave souls who carried words and melodies across from the Old World. But at the same time that the recordings focus our conversations with the past, they also allow us to document our present-day musical exchanges, with each project reflecting the friends, ideas, instruments, or environments that inspired and sustained us over the past year. On this one, our fourth, we’re joined by our pals Tom, Nancy, Charlie, and Art. It’s easy to make good music with such good company. We are fortunate to get to do it all the time in each other’s living rooms in Athens, GA.

Vol. 4 draws primarily on the old-time fiddling traditions of two regions: eastern Kentucky and our Blue Ridge Mountain homeland of western North Carolina, northern Georgia, and eastern Tennessee. Many of the tunes we focused on for this project have historical connections to the traditional music of Ireland, Scotland and England, while other included pieces are associated with Native American fiddlers and history. In western NC, the Cherokee were adept at fiddling at least as far back as the early 1800s, and the community of Celo, where Jason grew up and learned to fiddle, is named for the Cherokee goddess of corn (“Selu”).

This volume also reflects a few of our own modest contributions. The source fiddlers we admire took good tunes wherever they found them, and, inevitably, made them personal. Each player’s music had a rich and distinctive character. In that spirit, we’ve interpreted and introduced a few Old World pieces that we think are worthy of migration into the modern old-time repertoire. Here or there we let familiar tunes drift into new tunings or time signatures. Throughout, we let our own voices emerge while hewing as best we can to the sensibilities of the earlier fiddling masters who we revere. We are grateful to be on this path, finding new and old joys in this venerable tradition.

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released November 13, 2018

Jason Cade - fiddle
Rob McMaken - lap dulcimer, mandolin, guitar
Tom Baker - banjo
Nancy Hartness - guitar
Charlie Hartness - uke

We made this recording using the Blumlein configuration, with everyone comfortably positioned around two vertically stacked ribbon microphones. There were no overdubs or edits. Huge gratitude to our friend (and Rob’s former bandmate) Andrew Reissiger, who engineered much of the album in Studio 1093 in Athens, GA, on two winter nights in December 2017, and then taught us how to record the rest on our own. With a subtle touch, Andrew also mixed and mastered the whole thing. Check out more of Andrew’s projects at andrewreissiger.com.

We are grateful to our families, Bruce Greene, David Bragger, Rick Hocutt, Howard Rains, Jim Hawkins, and Steve Bransford for their generosity and guidance. You can read more about the friends who played with us on this album at hogeyedman.com.

Thanks also to D’Addario for superb strings and support, the radio and internet DJs who have played our music, the reviewers who have taken the time to shine a light, and everyone who bought our first three CDs, making another one possible.

Photograph by Jason Thrasher, artwork and design by Howard Rains.

Contact / Booking: robmcmaken@gmail.com or cadejason@gmail.com

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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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