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Sweet Like A Badger -Teetolalers - full album

by T. Wright & the hogwashers

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1.
Little Dutch Girl 02:22
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2.
Forked 🦌 Deer 03:29
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3.
John Brown’s March 02:36
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4.
Altamont 03:23
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5.
Jerusalem Moan 02:57
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6.
Jonesboro 02:29
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7.
Paddy on the Turnpike 02:46
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8.
Mole in the Ground 03:26
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9.
John Hardy 04:09
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10.
Last Shot Got Him 02:22
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11.
Farmer’s Daughter 03:44
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12.
Wine’s Delight 01:48
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13.
Wake up Jacob 03:01
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The Teetotalers with Tony on fiddle, Brooks on banjo and Woody on guitar and cheese grater.
Brooks had just started making Brooks Banjos in Questa, New Mexico. His shop an old school bus. He came all the way to Oregon just to record with Tony.
I love the looseness of their recordings, something I can seldom find.
Tony Wright was from near Charlotte, North Carolina but spent many years in Oregon.
As highly trained academic musicians enter the field of old time music there is a gain and a loss for me. The lyrical quality of today’s traditional music is certainly beautiful but it has lost some of its edginess and rowdiness.
Tony has the edginess and rowdiness in spades and gives up little in his technique to classically trained musicians. Tony played fiddle and harmonica at the same time and we had to tune to his out of tune harmonica. No tuners were allowed.
Tony formed 2 bands in the 90’s - The Teetotalers with Brooks Masten on Banjo and T. Wright & the hogwashers with John Meade on banjo. Woody Pines was the guitar player and percussionists for both bands with Rob Brown joining the hogwashers when Woody went off to seek fame and fortune in Asheville. Tony is no longer with us but his spirit lives on in his music. He had his own take on the tunes he played and there was no convincing him that there was a right way for a tune, there was just his way. He was cantankerous, drank too much and was belligerent, especially to those who referred to his music as Bluegrass.
His playing at times was brilliant and he was the only person I know who could fiddle and play harmonica at the same time. Listen to the last tune here as “The Henry McKenna Farewell” is Tony saying goodbye to all of us.
The music posted here I chose as best I could to represent his best moments. It is often raucous and always creative.
Tony could have used the money but that’s no longer relevant and he was a card carrying Commie so enjoy the music.
And if you like his music please share it!
Hope you enjoy it.
John Meade

So excited to get this out there for people to hear.

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released June 6, 2019

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