Old Town Band, by Aaron Olwell and Chris McGrath

Old Town Band

by Aaron Olwell and Chris McGrath

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teilhard Aaron and Chris! Your latest album is dynomite! It's everything a person could want in old time music of the people!

jadefiddle A beautiful recording. It takes exceptional musicianship and taste to put together an album of tunes from Ireland & Appalachia that somehow stays true to both traditions and never sounds muddled. Aaron and Chris have managed a rare accomplishment, creating something both new and deeply familiar, and their mastery of multiple instruments allows for considerable variety for a duo recording. Flute with clawhammer banjo, at least in these capable hands, is a sound I never expected to love so much! Favorite track: Old Town Band.

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1.	Cabin Creek 02:50	buy track
2.	Willow Creek 02:25	buy track
3.	Dance of the Honeybees/Bumblebee in a Jug 03:27	buy track
4.	Three Way Hornpipe 02:36	buy track
5.	Rocky Roads to Dublin 03:25	buy track
6.	Julia Delaney's/Wiley Law's 03:17	buy track
7.	Barlow Knife 02:35	buy track
8.	Flowers of Edinburgh/Oyster River 03:51	buy track
9.	The Walls of Liscarroll 03:25	buy track
10.	Midnight 02:13	buy track
11.	Bitter Creek 03:05	buy track
12.	Larry's Favorite/Georgia Belle 02:55	buy track
13.	Sally Cooper 02:10	buy track
14.	Boatman 02:43	buy track
15.	Shady Lane/Paddy Taylor's 02:29	buy track
16.	Queen of the Earth, Child of the Sky/The Stranger 03:22	buy track
17.	Cuckoo's Nests 04:38	buy track
18.	Old Town Band 02:31	buy track

about

Aaron and Chris first played tunes together in the Catskill Mountains in 2000 and got deeper into it when Chris moved to Virginia in 2008. Sometimes Irish, sometimes Old Time, sometimes it was hard to tell. But it wasn’t that long ago, before the hard lines of genre had firmed up, that musicians would play whatever tunes they could think of on whatever instruments they had. It is in that spirit that Aaron and Chris put together this selection of tunes. Many of the tunes here also expose the connections between the melodies of Ireland and Appalachia. Aaron plays fiddle, flute, concertina, and clarinet; Chris plays fiddle and banjo. This is the Old Town Band

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released September 8, 2023

Recorded by Joseph Dejarnette of Studio 808A
in Floyd, VA in November 2019
Mixed by Joseph Dejarnette in January 2020
Mastered by Joseph Dejarnette in June 2023
Cover image: “Autophone” Organette
(Manufacturer Autophone, Inventor Henry
Bishop Horton American), 1878. Metropolitan
Museum of Art Open Access API. Back cover
image: Desk and Bookcase, Attributed to
Thomas Seymour, 1800–1805. Metropolitan
Museum of Art Open Access API.
Inside art by Maeve McGrath, 2023
Special thanks to Rick Davidson
© 2023 Aaron Olwell & Chris McGrath
All rights reserved.

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Aaron Olwell and Chris McGrath Lexington, Virginia

Aaron Olwell plays lots of instruments in lots of styles, including Old Time, Irish, and Jazz. He lives and makes Irish flutes in Nellysford, VA.

Chris McGrath plays instruments that have strings on them in the Old Time and Irish ways. He lives with his wife and two musical children in Rockbridge County, VA. ... more

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