For the past seven years the Strung Out String Band has organized an old time jam at Freddy’s Bar in Park Slope, Brooklyn. We’ve loved every minute of the banjo banging, fiddle dripping, murder ballad swilling good times. Unfortunately, as I’m sure you know, Freddy’s is finally slated for Ratner’s wrecking ball. No more old time jams at Freddy’s. No more Freddy’s.

But wait! There is hope yet…

The non-sleeping, video editing, music loving management of Freddy’s has vowed to reopen. The exact location for this resurrection is unknown but we will do our best to bring Old Timey tunes to Freddy’s the Sequel as soon as we can.

Keep those bows rosined and the banjos tuned. We’ll be back.

Our new CD is finally complete. It’s been years since we last hurled our best musical ideas against a wall and recorded the aftermath. We spent hours swilling cheap beer and whiskey in a subterranean studio buried deep within New York’s Lower East Side and emerged with a record that we are proud to call our own. It contains such old favorites as Shove the Pig’s Foot Further in the Fire and The Drunkard’s Hiccups and a few songs you’ve never heard before.

We would be quite appreciative if you’d pick up a copy for yourself and a few for your friends. All proceeds go directly into fixing broken instruments, funding trips to The Bibb County Hoedown

On February 5th, 2006 we stopped by WKCR’s studios to play live on the Moonshine Show hosted by Matt Winters. We had a great time despite the ungodly early hour for a Sunday.

You can listen here.