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ABOUT THE ALBUM ROAD TESTED:

This record began with an organizing principle: to create an album that tells a story through songs. It’s about a guy who's tried to be a good man, has had his ups and downs, is heading into his last few laps in life, and is trying to do that with some dignity, humor, and peace. By the time we wrapped this album up, I really liked this guy

Road Tested

In the words of our "hero": 

To really know a person you need to know what kind of music they listened to growing up. I caught a little bit of everything but it was the soulful country tunes that made me the happiest. They still do.

The Players

Chuck McDermott

John Deaderick

Ron Eoff

Marco Giovino          

Doug Lancio  

Russ Pahl

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featuring

Kathleen Parks:                

Vocals, Acoustic Guitar

Piano, Organ, Accordion

Upright Bass,  Electric Bass

Drums

Electric Guitars

Pedal Steel, Electric Guitars, Jaw Harp

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Fiddle 

Lyrics

I was born by the Mississippi River

Round the middle of the century

You might say I was raised around the music

Of the farm and the factory

Back  then my hero was Big Jim Boone

A local country singer 

Who  lived across the road from me

And every night he’d walk out to his station wagon

I’d run across the street to see

The golden threads of woven wagon wheels

Rollin’ cross his jacket and his big guitar

Man, if I could have it 

I’d be a country singer like he was

Eventually

 

You can be hillbilly with me

You can sing a country melody

Pick your favorite tune, moan the Lovesick Blues

Or maybe Born To Lose

I love the music of the Bluegrass Boys, the Louvin Brothers

Haggard and Hank, you know there’s so many others

You see, you can be hillbilly with me

 

Sure I loved the music of the 50’s

It was everything that music should be

I knew every song of Little Richard 

And Elvis from memory

My older sister used to love Dick Clark

She’d practice her dancing in the living room by the TV

But I still liked to sidle up to Grandpa 

And have him play his fiddle for me

That’s where I first remember Silver Threads

And Golden Needles, Your Cheatin’ Heart

That Ole Boll Weevil when he’d  play Jambalaya

You could taste the Cajun recipe 

 

You can be hillbilly with me

You can sing a country melody

Pick your favorite tune, moan the Lovesick Blues

Or maybe Born To Lose

I love the music of those Everly boys, the Osborne Brothers

Miss Tammy Wynette, you know there’s so many others

You see, you can be hillbilly with me

 

I love the music of the Sourmash Boys, the Stanley  Brothers

Buddy and Jim, you know there’s so many others

You see, you can be hillbilly with me

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