Hart & Blech
Build Me A Boat
(Voyager Recordings VRCD-354)
copyright and registered 2001


(CD cover photography by John A. Gallagher)

Allen Hart and Sheila & Kerry Blech are very proud to announce the availability of our new CD project on the Voyager label. It consists of 28 old-time string band tunes and songs, totalling nearly 72 minutes.

If you would be interested in ordering one from us, send a check or money order made out to Kerry at:

10832 Lakeridge Drive S.
Seattle, Washington 98178

in the amount of $16.50 (U.S.) [$15 for the CD, plus $1.50 for shipping & handling]. Upon receipt, we will ship to you as soon as possible.

You can also purchase it from us in-person at our gigs, or even on the street. Voyager Recordings also has it for sale, as will select retailers and mail-order firms around the country (the USofA).

Here is photo of the lovely CD label that David Lynch designed for us:

We got The Po' Little Thing Cried Mammy from an Uncle Dave Macon and the Fruit Jar Drinkers 78.

Pappa Build Me a Boat came from Dock Boggs.

We learned Old Corn Liquor from the playing of Odell and Joe Thompson.

Walkin' in the Parlor came to us from Andy Cahan.

Allen learned Marching Through Georgia from Clyde Troxell.
 

We learned Lady of the Lake from a tape of Parley Parsons.

Carolina Rattlesnake comes from a Library of Congress archival recording of Lon Jordan.

Old Mother Logo was excavated from that treasure trove of great tunes, Traditional Music in America, a book by Ira Ford.

Coal Creek March is another gem that Allen learned from Dock Boggs.

Blue Eyed Gal is a dandy tune in F that Kerry learned from Lee Triplett.

Do, Little Bobbie, Do comes from a Library of Congress archival recording of Farmer Howell and Rufus Crisp.

Cleveland Marching to the White House was played for us by Bertie Mae Dickens.
  

John Cole comes from home recordings of John M. Salyer.

Old Billie Wilson is our interpretation of a setting from Joel Shimberg.

Dock's Own Blues is our instrumental setting for Dock Boggs' song Mixed Blues.

Sweet 'Bama comes from Joe LaRose's tape of Stanley Bailey in Enigma, Georgia.

We learned Defellum Blues from Clyde and Ralph Troxell at the Festival of American Fiddle Tunes.

Sheep and Cows Walking Through the Pasture came to us from the playing of Roscoe Parish (and, as one of my cousins who is a native Louisianan asked, "Where is Roscoe Parish?").

This unusual setting of Wild Bill Jones comes from Clyde Troxell.

Black Annie is another beaut we learned from Joe and Odell Thompson.

We learned The Downfall of Richmond from a tape of Ernie Carpenter (be sure to check out the new 2-CD set  of his music, Old-Time Fiddle Tunes from the Elk River Country -- Augusta Heritage AHR-023; this tune, however, is not on that CD).

On Jordan's Stormy Banks I Stand was adapted by Kerry from a shape-note hymnal.

Newport Breakdown is a composite built from a Library of Congress archival recording of the Helton Brothers and from field recordings of Manco Snead.

Indian Shot the Woodchuck comes from a home recording of Claude Parker.

Wimbush Rag comes from a 78 rpm recording made by Theodore and Gus Clark.

The Wilds or Idaho was learned from an archival tape of Arthur "Cush" Holston.

Train 45 also came to us from the Troxell Brothers.

Sheila composed Louise Marie - waltz for our younger daughter and features guest fiddler, Vivian Williams.