Dire Wolf The Eustice Hocke Memorial Album LP Minnesota Private Bluegrass 1972

Description: This is a great LP Dire Wolf The Eustice Hocke Memorial AlbumThe Final Live PerformanceThe LP is in a strong VG+ condition Plays VG+ sometimes very slightly lessThe cover has some shelf wear and writing on the backThis is on Symposium Records SYS 2003Minnesota based Revue from Slipcue dot com A fine live set of straight-ahead bluegrass and old-timey music from a Minneapolis, MN area group with a sharp, concise sound in an electrifying live set at an old venue called the New Riverside Cafe. The repertoire is almost entirely bluegrass classics, songs like "Little Maggie," "Bill Cheatum" and "Footprints In The Snow," although they also give an excellent rendition of Hank Williams' "Lost Highway" and dip lightly into pop with a funky rural cover of "Proud Mary," but that's about it for nontraditional material. There are no composer credits, but I think there is one original tune on here, a fun instrumental called "This And That There" -- although it's possible that this came from somewhere else too (anyone know for sure?) Only two musicians are listed on the jacket, Ron Colby (who played some really hot banjo) and Craig Ruble playing fiddle, guitar and mandolin, though clearly there are other pickers backing them up, including an unidentified vocalist who hits the Jimmy Martin-style high-lonesome sound on several tracks. Also worth noting is the Grateful Dead-ish iconography in the album art: the Dire Wolf label logo and a big old, Dead-ish skull on the cover. Musically, though, this is pure mountain music. Eustice Hocke? Made up, as far as I can tell: they dedicate the album to him, claiming that he died pouring a glass of milk, and promise to use the proceeds from the album to build a Eustice Hocke cultural center in his nonexistent hometown of Dwildy, Iowa. Hey, they can make as many in-jokes as they want to, as long as they play all sweet like that. Whoever these guys were, they were good.

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