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• Song Name: Search for the Last of the Hard-Core Troubadours Podcast 05
• Artist: The ACs
• Album: www.hardcore-troubadours.com
• Year: 2006

The ACs came over to record with us (are they called that because they're so damn cool? I forgot to ask). The ACs are Beau Stapleton on guitar, tenor guitar and mandola, David Long on mandolin and mandola and Matt Combs on fiddle, banjo and guitar.

So in this podcast (right click and 'save as' to download) I get everything I suspected about bluegrass and the community surrounding it pronounced true and Mimi learns about fiddle styles from around the US. Mostly we laugh a lot and maybe leave you wondering what the heck is going on. But even when we degenerate into bad jokes and giggling, the music is spectacular and worth a listen. As always, still on a learning curve here, so hopefully you can follow what's going on (five people in a room is hard to capture on tape). While I'm thinking of it, if you're interested in roots and traditional music and some of the stuff we talk about in this 'cast, you might check out The Devil's Box and The Old Time Herald.

In addition to beer drinking, too much laughing, and everything we learned about music from these boys, you can find the following tracks in this recording:

Little Car Graveyard by John Hartford
Summer Leaves by David Long
Drunken Presbyterian by John Hartford
My Automobile by George Clinton
If I Die Tomorrow by Mary Alice Lamb
Passing Away by EC and Orna Ball
Sailing on Dry Land by Ben Hartlage

Keep an eye on these guys. I mean really, keep an eye, 'cause I can't find my wallet since they left. Just kidding. We expect to be hearing a lot more from them, both individually and as a group.