When someone gives you something really, really, extraordinary, it can be hard to know how to say thanks, and this is one of those times. Our third full length album “The Fiddle Preacher” is finally finished and in our hands. The road to this point is an an unbroken chain of happy circumstances, lucky breaks, as well as friends new and old who lifted us up and believed in us when we sometimes weren’t sure of ourselves. The Fiddle Preacher is all about the gifts we’ve been given and strive to pass on. For us the gift of music, handed down from our parents to both of us is the language we speak and the currency we trade in. We hope we can give back at least a fraction of the beauty and passion we’ve inherited.

So many of you supported us in this project and we couldn’t have done it without each and every one of you. Knowing you were waiting for us to finish drove us on when we might have dithered. Many of you preordered more than one copy, or hired us for a house concert, took us up on an offer for dinner and a concert, attended one of our private fundraising shows, supported us through one of our other fundraising initiatives, or just let us know you were excited for us to finish.

We started our celebration with a bang at a standing room only CD release party at 9th and 9th concert series. In celebration of the title track we were able to book Salt Lake City’s one and only “Fiddle Preacher” Bronwen Beecher to open the show for us. It was a night that will linger long in our memories, a packed sanctuary at the church that hosts the concert series. A sold out crowd of all our best friends and family, and a sense that despite all the turmoil in the world, we really can “get by with a little help from [our] friends” as the Beatles so eloquently put it.

In the words of one of our own songs, “Sometimes you just know, and this time was like that.”

If you want to hear the album you can listen via the player on our home page.

Here’s a few pictures from the event courtesy of Duane Jennings and Floyd Wilkes. Special thanks to Matt Seabury for playing bass with us, Bill Green for sound support and our superb audio engineer Ken Kruckenberg for putting up with us over the past year!

Happy New Year! We know we’re a bit late but we’ve been busy here at Otter Creek Central. We’re starting the New Year off with the great news that a collaboration of ours with Salt Lake City Based Singer Songwriter, Wendy Lowder, will air on the season finale of the TLC series Sister Wives! Add to that a whole string of recording sessions and rehearsals for our upcoming album which is due out this summer. We’re already taking preorders to help fund the project so if you think you’d like to buy in at the ground level, now is your chance!

We ended 2014 with a cross country tour that carried us from the Golden Gate Bridge through the heartland of America and all the way east to Plymouth Rock. Along the way we played in cities and towns big and small, Concert halls, gymnasiums, parks, restaurants and homes.  We experienced unseasonable warmth, braved a polar vortex,  took the southern route to Boston to avoid a blizzard that dumped five feet of snow in one day and drove for the first time ever in freezing rain. We hobnobbed with farmers, schoolteachers, miners, artists, musicians, businesspeople, individuals from all walks of life. We made new friends, experienced some startling kindnesses, and hopefully did a few ourselves. At every stop we ended our show with everyone singing Woody Guthrie’s This Land Was Made for You and Me.  The resounding message we came home with is that we all belong here together in this country.


We feel more passionate than ever about calling ourselves folk musicians, for folk music is the music of the people. No one person owns it, no industry controls it. No one culture or people can claim it as their sole heritage. It is the birthright of the amalgamation of people who now reside in this land we all call home. Friends, we belong together and we see the music of the people as a vital part of a democratic society.

We’re titling album 3 after one of the songs we’ve written, The Fiddle Preacher. It is about how music can bring us together when almost nothing else can, it’s about the spirit of America, it’s about democracy, and most of all, it’s about We the People!

We gratefully accept donations to help produce our next album The Fiddle Preacher. Donations of $15 or more come with a copy of our next CD, due out in June of 2015 which we will ship to you free of charge as soon as it's available.