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Thank You!

9/13/2015

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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!


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Photo Shoot (Otter Creek Style)

5/25/2015

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We spent the first part of our Memorial Day Weekend on a photo shoot for our upcoming album The Fiddle Preacher with our amazing photographer, Mary’s brother David. His style might best be described as “extreme photography”. The photo shoot for the last album involved a four hour drive and both he and us perching on a cliff. He has a special talent for locating breathtaking backdrops and  precise attention to detail.

The muses are easy to photograph because they are so dang cute… but their parents are another matter. We were pretty sure we’d need a dramatic backdrop to get a picture worthy of the music, so off we went. David took us to a pond, a river, and finally on an old railroad causeway across the Great Salt Lake. Along the way we scrambled into the branches of a tree and later perched precariously on boulders in the midst of a river where we prayed for our balance to hold long enough for David to wade fully clothed out into the depths of the river for a shot. We tramped barefoot through muddy shores and swarms of brine flies along the Great Salt Lake, stood on a live railroad track for a tune or two, and drove a very muddy and seldom used track along the rail line out to a pool of lavender water lined with salt stained rocks. Taking Woody Guthrie’s advice we looked only at the back sides of the “No Trespassing” signs  and just as he said they “didn’t say nothing.” Our new Ottermobile proved worthy for the task although he was scarcely recognizable at the end. After a thorough cleaning later that day (courtesy of our nephews) he was none the worse for wear.

We’ve got some incredible pictures, some even more incredible memories , and a pocketful of new music we can’t wait to share! We're in the final stages of recording and will be holding a special fundraising concert later this month. There's still a few seats left if you'd care to join us! You can order tickets here, or call us with any questions!

Here's a brief smattering of photos from our adventure!


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Fundraising For The Fiddle Preacher

4/15/2015

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We officially launched fundraising for our third studio album “The Fiddle Preacher” at the beginning of the month with a sold out concert for our local community. The response so far has been overwhelming, in just the first two weeks of fundraising we've raised almost $1000 dollars toward the recording and production costs for the album.


At that concert we also debuted the title track, which is the spiritual heart and soul of the whole project. We thought we’d share the lyrics with you here, and the next series of blogs will likely include details about the project and the fundraising effort as we keep plugging away to meet our deadline to get it out early this summer!

The Fiddle Preacher
Lyrics and Music by Peter Danzig (
© 2015)

When I was a young boy I’d watch my father play
He would fiddle I would dance, we’d while the night away.
I asked him, “daddy, why’s the music make me move?”
He said, “Listen to me son, I’ll tell you something true.”

    Some preach so hot you can smell the fire.
    Others preach and you know they’re liars.
    Some preach so sweet you give heaven a chance,
    But when the fiddle preaches you get up and dance!

I spent some time in church, sought a purpose driven life,
Learned to do my duty and set childish things aside
But I kept my daddy’s fiddle and sometimes late at night
I’d bust into a song and just enjoy the ride.
 
    Some preach so hot you can smell the fire.
    Others preach and you know they’re liars.
    Some preach so sweet you give heaven a chance,
    But when the fiddle preaches you get up and dance!

As I look across my life all the finest things I’ve done
I’ve ignored the ninety-nine, learned to listen to the one.
When I’m standing at the crossroads wondering what to do
I listen to the fiddle and the way it makes me move.
 
    Some preach so hot you can smell the fire.
    Others preach and you know they’re liars.
    Some preach so sweet you give heaven a chance,
    But when the fiddle preaches you get up and dance!
    Get up and dance!

Want to hear the song live?! We’ll be performing it at three upcoming concerts. The first one is this Friday at the "Music in the City" concert series in Brigham City. The next two are intimate house concerts held at our home on May 16 and June 19. Tickets for those two concerts are limited to 20 seats each so act fast. You can purchase tickets and read concert details via our fundraising page.

Got questions about the album? We'd love to hear them!


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Golden Gate to Plymouth Rock!

1/27/2015

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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.



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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!

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The Muses at the Golden Gate Bridge

Preorder The Fiddle Preacher

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.
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