River Stay Away From My Door, by Rhode Island Mudflaps

River Stay Away From My Door

by Rhode Island Mudflaps

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1.	My Old Cow Died on Bear Creek 01:28	info	buy track
2.	My Last Gold Dollar 03:30	info	buy track
3.	Rub Alcohol 04:18	info	buy track
4.	Lilly Monroe 04:00	info	buy track
5.	Say Old Man/Glory in the Meetinghouse 04:20	info	buy track
6.	Factory Girl 02:19	info	buy track
7.	Townie Polka 02:41	info	buy track
8.	Sail Away Ladies 03:54	info	buy track
9.	River Stay Away from my Door 02:47	info	buy track
10.	Going Across the Mountain 02:32	info	buy track
11.	Went to the River but I Couldn't Get Across 02:07	info	buy track
12.	I was Young When I Left Home 03:43	info	buy track
13.	Billy in the Lowground 02:26	info	buy track
14.	Emeline 02:41	info	buy track
15.	Queen of the Earth 02:28	info	buy track

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This album features the old-time string band sound of the Rhode Island Mudflaps. The Flaps — Charles “Skip” Gorman, Tom Carter, Hal Cannon, and Leonard Coulson — played together back in the late 1960s and early 1970s during their college days in Rhode Island. In the years since they have shared many musical adventures, but all felt a debt to those early days and as time went by wanted to honor not only the role music has played in their lives but also the importance of these friendships. The result is this album, a 50-year band reunion.

The Flaps always had a distinctive approach to the music. While having a deep respect for the tradition, they also felt - and continue to feel – that it’s important to have the music speak for their own lives, and their own times. Which means they search high and low for music that has meaning for them. There is the blues number, Rub Alcohol, the old love songs Lily Monroe and Going Across the Mountain, the haunting Sail Away Ladies and Went to the River but I Couldn’t Get Across, and the title song, River Stay Away from My Door, which is not only the first tune they all played together, but also a plea in these strange times for deliverance.

It should be pointed out too that the arrangements here change to suit the moods found in the songs and tunes. Skip’s crisp mandolin on Say Old Man, Hal’s droning fretted oud on Rub Alcohol and Sail Away Ladies, Hal and Tom’s double banjo plunking on the Rolling Stones’ Factory Girl, and Leonard’s percussion work throughout, are good examples of the variety found throughout the album.

Finally, although the Mudflaps (a friend suggested the name and it somehow stuck) aren’t a band people will know, members all have made names for themselves in the music. Skip Gorman is Bluegrass mandolinist extraordinaire, a fine old-time and Celtic fiddler, and an interpreter of the cowboy music of the West. Hal Cannon led the Salt Lake City-based Deseret String Band, founded the famous Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko Nevada, and now performs his own music solo or with the 3Hattrio. Leonard is widely known not only for his banjo work in the Deseret String Band, but also as a banjo-maker and owner of Intermountain Guitar and Banjo which specializes in vintage instruments repair and sales. Tom has played and recorded with the Fuzzy Mountain String Band and the Los Angeles multi-instrumentalist Tom Sauber.

“It’s wonderful to hear the music produced by these four old friends. Fifty years of shared lives and music.”
Tom Sauber

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released December 12, 2022

Leonard Coulson: vocals and percussion; Skip Gorman: vocals, fiddle, mandolin, guitar, and percussion; Hal Cannon: vocals, guitar, fretted oud, fife, and accordion; and Tom Carter: vocal and banjos.

Produced by Tom Carter, Hal Cannon, Skip Gorman, and Leonard
Coulson
Cover artwork by Tom Judd
Album design by Rowan Bishop at Bridge Street Design
Recording and final mix by Michael Greene
Mastering by James Anderson, the Bit Farm

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Rhode Island Mudflaps Salt Lake City, Utah

50 years plus, this well seasoned, old-time string band started its life in Rhode Island. School chums, they hearkened back to romantic days of yore. They all kept playing even after dispersion. All made their marks in various ways, but all an echo of the nasent music. Skip Gorman, Tom Carter, Hal Cannon and Leonard Coulson make up this quartet. ... more

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