snsranch we play a lot of the Michigan festivals - if you're around you should track us down sometime! :D
our shows are here: http://www.whohitjohn.com
posted to MeFi Music by Baby_Balrog at 4:49 PM on July 9, 2009

Pretty much all simultaneously - we overlaid some of the gang vocals when more people came over and I laid the jawharp track over the fiddle. (Can't play jawhard and fiddle at the same time.... yet....)
posted to MeFi Music by Baby_Balrog at 10:09 AM on July 6, 2009

This is freaking epic. Your mandolin playing sounds perfect for this. I think if it rolled any faster you'd start to approach the "ska" sound... but that may just be because I think I have the ska thing stuck in my head.

I'm pretty sure if we did this we'd play it as a Texas waltz - I'm typically super against "bluegrassification" novelties (ever since I heard the Rusty Thimbles cover "Closer"). Nevertheless, this was really classy -... [more]
posted to MeFi Music by Baby_Balrog at 6:44 AM on June 19, 2009

Cooter Brown.
posted to MeFi Music by Baby_Balrog at 2:33 PM on June 17, 2009

Yeah - Catfish played in an electric blues kind of outfit before starting Who Hit John. It was actually called the Younger Dryas which is pretty much the coolest band name ever. So he's really good when he puts the slide to the resonator.
posted to MeFi Music by Baby_Balrog at 6:35 AM on June 19, 2009

YEEEEEEAAAAAAAHHH!!!!!
This is now my ringtone.
posted to MeFi Music by Baby_Balrog at 12:04 PM on June 17, 2009

Dude! Completely awesome! I love it.
posted to MeFi Music by Baby_Balrog at 11:34 PM on June 29, 2008

YEEES! Damn. There just aren't enough songs written about Michigan. We gotta jam some time - fantastic stuff.
posted to MeFi Music by Baby_Balrog at 8:28 AM on February 29, 2008

DOOT DOOT DOOT FTW! Good stuff.
posted to MeFi Music by Baby_Balrog at 8:25 AM on February 29, 2008

Fkin sweet, pt - especially where it picks up around 2:30 - good mix.
posted to MeFi Music by Baby_Balrog at 8:24 AM on February 29, 2008

Very excellent work. Very dark as well - thanks!
posted to MeFi Music by Baby_Balrog at 1:47 PM on January 11, 2008

Hey yeah micayetoca. I'll ask hammy for the actual lyrics. I can only approximate. :D
I'm the fiddle player so I usually don't pay too close attention to what they're singing - but I'm pretty sure it's -

When I'm in a circle
spinnin round
don't know my ankles from my feet on the ground
and all of my days
they seem the same
spinnin round I found
till someone calls my... [more]
posted to MeFi Music by Baby_Balrog at 2:25 PM on January 10, 2008

It was recorded in a library, actually. The Heart Center Astrological Library, owned by this guy. It was pretty amazing.
posted to MeFi Music by Baby_Balrog at 1:45 PM on January 11, 2008

Thanks micayetoca!!!
posted to MeFi Music by Baby_Balrog at 8:00 AM on January 9, 2008

Yeah Ynoxas - that's kinda funny because at bars we usually end with everyone shouting "fuckin cold!" but we wanted to keep the album pg-13. you know. for the parishioners. :D I didn't know what to say, and everyone in the band was silently mouthing "FUCKING!" at me so I kinda laughed.
posted to MeFi Music by Baby_Balrog at 10:07 AM on January 10, 2008

SWEET! I can't believe I missed this when you first put it up. This is fantastic. Your mournful banjo-sweetness reminds me of a friend of mine - Andru Bemis - you might like his stuff.

Seriously, please keep posting songs - this is beautiful stuff.
posted to MeFi Music by Baby_Balrog at 10:01 AM on January 10, 2008

Absolutely transcendent. :D Will be playing tonight as I fix my lady some dinner.
posted to MeFi Music by Baby_Balrog at 9:48 AM on January 10, 2008

Is that you singing?
Very catchy stuff. Am forwarding to my chicago club-scene friends.
posted to MeFi Music by Baby_Balrog at 8:51 AM on January 8, 2008

Ha! awesome. thanks, Alvy.
posted to MeFi Music by Baby_Balrog at 12:05 PM on January 6, 2008

Yes! That is completely awesome.
posted to MeFi Music by Baby_Balrog at 10:14 AM on January 3, 2008

Hey thanks everybody. I'll try to get more youtubery for other songs I post. Parmanparman I'll remember to send you a link once we get something downloadable. I think you can get some stuff from http://www.myspace.com/whohitjohn5
posted to MeFi Music by Baby_Balrog at 7:29 PM on April 2, 2007

Absolutely beautiful. Stunning.
posted to MeFi Music by Baby_Balrog at 2:50 PM on April 1, 2007

Awesome, awesome, awesome. I love the super upbeat autoharp. Definitely an instrument that doesn't receive the love it deserves.
posted to MeFi Music by Baby_Balrog at 2:46 PM on April 1, 2007

oh yeah here's us hilljacks: obligatory narcissistic crappy myspace page
posted to MeFi Music by Baby_Balrog at 8:58 AM on March 21, 2007

Hey, thanks man. This is our mando player, hamdog singin. I did some of the arranging, but this is mainly him and catfish. I'm glad people like this stuff - we primarily just goof off and record each other foolin around. I'll post somethin with me singin on it today.

I'm glad you found the myspace page, for anyone else you can check it out at myspace.com/whohitjohn5
posted to MeFi Music by Baby_Balrog at 8:58 AM on March 20, 2007

why what's the policy on posting covers? we cover a bunch of weird stuff, bluegrass-style. but we have a bunch of original material too.
posted to MeFi Music by Baby_Balrog at 9:02 AM on March 20, 2007

why hey
posted to MeFi Music by Baby_Balrog at 9:03 AM on March 20, 2007

Awesome - thanks micayetoca. I'm really glad that you dig this stuff! I'm fine stickin to the one-song-a-day limit, too. :D
posted to MeFi Music by Baby_Balrog at 11:36 AM on March 20, 2007

lol i put this on my "commute" cd for my car. I have a large music amplification system in my automobile. 2/3rds of the way through the song I felt interesting vibrations in my body.

I would like... more.... of this music. for my.... research....
posted to MeFi Music by Baby_Balrog at 8:47 PM on March 19, 2007

also i am a virgin at this whole... mefimusic thing. i feel dirty linking to my own stuff on metafilter...
posted to MeFi Music by Baby_Balrog at 1:42 PM on March 12, 2007

:D thank you all. Well, cool. I'll post some more hilljack music soon.
posted to MeFi Music by Baby_Balrog at 6:27 PM on March 12, 2007

simply beautiful
posted to MeFi Music by Baby_Balrog at 11:43 AM on July 12, 2006