Bill
Christophersen's new CD:
Bill
Christophersen's new CD:
Hell & High Water
Bill Christophersen has played traditional music in the New York area since 1971. He fiddled with the Fly By Night String Band and the Lazy Aces, two seminal old-time-revival string bands, and currently performs with the Fish Family (an old-school New England contradance band) and the Rock-House Gamblers, whose repertoire combines old-time, bluegrass and country. Introduced to trad music by the New Lost City Ramblers, he has recorded with Tom Paley and accompanied John Cohen in concert.
Hell & High Water, his first old-timey venture in a decade, is a collection of Appalachian and Southern fiddle tunes. It features several area musicians (including the Rock-House Gamblers), a variety of styles and fiddle tunings, and a spare esthetic: Solo fiddle tunes, fiddle duets with banjo or guitar, and fiddle-mandolin-guitar trios predominatethough the dance-band groove gets its due as well. Setting off the instrumentals are three ballads whose themes speak to the albums title.
email to purchase the CD: bchris1008@aol.com
Hell & High Water
Tracks include:
Widow Haley
Listen to ....The Belle of Lexington
East Tennessee Blues
Lone Pilgrim/Three Forks of Cheat
The Flood of 57
Crocketts Honeymoon
Beaumont Rag
Old Sledge
Leather Britches
Blind Fiddler
Sally in the Garden
Keys to the Kingdom
Done Gone
Rocky Pallet
Searcy County Rag
Listen to ...Meet Me in the Moonlight
Hell Among the Yearlings
Cotton-Eyed Joe
Blind Steer in a Mud Hole.
Musicians:
Steve
Arkin, banjo; Ben Freed, banjo, guitar; Dave Goldberg, banjo; Dave Howard,
guitar, vocals; Ethan Kende, bass; John Saroyan, banjo; Gil Sayre, guitar,
vocals; Aron Weinbach, mandolin, vocals.
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Recorded by Ben Freed www.banjoben.com