Name: Down Side Up [Digipak] *
Brand: Fat Wreck Chords
SKU: 30012568
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Down Side Up [Digipak] *

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Album: Down Side Up [Digipak] *
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Blood On My Hands	More Info...
2)	Rehearsal	More Info...
3)	America's Dreaming	More Info...
4)	Come Around Here	More Info...
5)	Blindfold	More Info...
6)	So Much More	More Info...
7)	Hard to Understand	More Info...
8)	Beyond the Moon	More Info...
9)	Hand Me Down	More Info...
10)	Up Side Down	More Info...
11)	Run Away from Me	More Info...
12)	Train of Thought	More Info...
13)	Too Soon for Goodnight	More Info...

Album: Down Side Up [Digipak] *
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Blood On My Hands	More Info...
2)	Rehearsal	More Info...
3)	America's Dreaming	More Info...
4)	Come Around Here	More Info...
5)	Blindfold	More Info...
6)	So Much More	More Info...
7)	Hard to Understand	More Info...
8)	Beyond the Moon	More Info...
9)	Hand Me Down	More Info...
10)	Up Side Down	More Info...
11)	Run Away from Me	More Info...
12)	Train of Thought	More Info...
13)	Too Soon for Goodnight	More Info...

Performer Notes

Personnel: John Carey (vocals, guitar); John Rosen (vocals, banjo); Annie DeTemple (vocals, autoharp); Katie Weed (vocals, fiddle); Joey Garibaldi (vocals); Jeff Fuller (drums); Ryan Markley (washboard).
Audio Mixer: Jason LaRocca.
Recording information: OMM Manor Studios, Van Nuys, CA; The Lighthouse, Woodland Bills, CA.
Photographer: Michael DeTemple.
Old Man Markley are not your typical bluegrass band; in fact, they're hardly a bluegrass band at all, being as much an acoustic-based punk band as anything else. Using fiddles, autoharps, washboards, and banjos sure makes them seem like an old-time string band, but then, well, they're not, at least not exactly. With a sound that seems always full tilt and ready to jump the tracks, Old Man Markley are the result of genres merging in the 21st century, and they play with the kind of verve, passion, and abandon that punk brought into the world, but they have bluegrass precision too, catching perhaps the best of both worlds. Down Side Up is the band's second full-length, and it roars into things right out of the gate with the explosive opener, "Blood on My Hands," then hardly shifts gears through the bullet-fast "Blindfold," the romping "So Much More," and the blistering "Hand Me Down," sounding at times like Phil Ochs fronting a thrash metal band armed only with fiddles and banjos and with the throttle down all the way to the floor. If this is progressive bluegrass, and in a way it is, then it's bluegrass with drums and mosh pit aspirations, and the only direction is harder and faster, all the way to the end of the track line, where one can only hope things don't fly right off the cliff and into the great punk dancefloor in the sky. ~ Steve Leggett