First published in  Lonely Goat Print Magazine Volume II - #4

April 1999 Goat Notes

Stella Blue called me today (I just had to say it that way). I had their phone number wrong in my last issue. It has been corrected for this one. Many apologies to Stella Blue (there's also no "'s" either I've learned) and anyone else this may have confused.

The Low Country Boil Bluegrass Band - Cue-N-Spirits - 3/4/99 - What is the recipe for the Low Country Boil? Start with some meaty acoustic guitar from a seventeen year old protege. Add one part rhythm in the form of some bouncy electric bass. Throw in some spicy autoharp interludes and hold it all together with some flavorful mandolin. Heat over four powerful flames of vocal harmony until something exceptional bubbles to the surface. Yeilds some tasty original compositions and a few spicey covers from the likes of Old & in the Way, The Stanley Brothers and Bill Monroe. Serves about twenty this nite, but could feed an entire dance hall with careful preparation. Don't miss them when they serve it up again at Merlefest.

The Dam Creek bluegrass band plays every Wednesday at Blind Tiger in Greensboro. I asked them to tell me a little bit about themselves: Robert Mabe - Instrument: Banjo - Influences: Fleck, Davis,Parker, Scruggs - Formerly with Mandolin MindTrick, NiteFlyer, David Via and Tangled Roots. Ralph Mcgee - Instrument: Mandolin Guitar - Influences: NGR, TRU, AWB, CDB, ABB - Formerly with NiteFlyer. Tim Hill - Instrument: Electric Bass - Influences: #32 - Formerly with NiteFlyer and Tangled Roots.

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