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| KARL & GAIL COOLER'S |
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| VISIT MOUNTAIN ROADS RECORDINGS |
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| WATCH OUT FOR THE GEEZERS |
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| TREVOR - HERB - JIM - BILL |
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| JEFF MICHAEL ALSO PICKS WITH US WHEN HE CAN |
| WILKES ACOUSTIC FOLK SOCIETY |
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| OLA BELLE REED HOMECOMING FESTIVAL |
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Sad News
On November 23, 2010, our good friend,
fiddle & mandolin player, Drake Walsh passed away very unexpectedly. He will be missed by many. He had picked
with us for the last 10 years.
Jennifer, wife of Jeff
Michael, passed away suddenly on October 2, 2010. She had been battling cancer these last few
months.
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On a brighter note we
would like to announce that Jim Lloyd & Trevor McKenzie have agreed to pick with us in 2011 and hopefully
on into the future
Welcome to our web site!
The Elkville String Band plays
"Traditional
Country Roots Music"
"Traditional Country Roots Music" is what we play. We play "The Wilkes County Sound" as we like to call it. We like to
play the songs that came out of Wilkes County, NC. We are also interested in the music of Virginia, West Virginia and East
Tennessee We like to refere to these areas as "where the real music came from" and our main goal is to keep this music alive
for future generations to enjoy. Some of the songs we do date back to the early 1800's. Some are not near that old but date
back to the 50's and 60's. We do old time, bluegrass, traditional, gospel and even a blues tune now and then. All these different
kinds of music were played in the Blue Ridge and Appalachian regions of our country so we want to play some of all this music.
Well, it doesn't seem like 3 years has passed since Mountain Roads Recordings released our new CD "Over The Mountain" but
it has. The CD was released on Nov. 20, 2008. It has 15 songs, including 4 original tunes, 3 by Jeff Michael and 1 by Drake
Walsh, and some tunes that were sung by Dock Walsh, Drake's father. We hope you are enjoying listening to it. Our CD
"Over The Mountain" is still available on line at CDBaby, County Sales, Elderly Intruments, Napster, Music Shed, Amazon.Com,
Indie Rhythm and SideStreet Distributing
We want to thank Mountain Roads Recordings and it's owners, Karl & Gail Cooler, for giving us this opportunity. It has
been a lot of fun being a part of the Mountain Roads Recording family. They are a great bunch of people.
We also want to thank "Wayne Henderson" for coming by and pickin' on 4 songs on this CD. Wayne is a great friend, musician,
luthier and one of the best people you could ever meet.
Last, but certainly not least, we want to thank Wesley Easter at Eastwood Recording Studio in Cana, Va. As far as we are
concerend, Wes is the best there is when it comes to recording engineers.
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