What do you get when you combine a crooning bluegrass mandolin master, a veteran bassist, a fiddler who plays through fuzz boxes and wah-wah pedals, sounding more like Jimi Hendrix than Papa John Creach, and a big band swing drummer who inexplicably feels moved to pound the skins harder than John Bonham on a bender? Do you call it country, folk, bluegrass, rock ‘n’ roll, or maybe just a freak of nature?  Just call it Wooden Leg, and give the group room to do its thing. It’s much safer that way.
 

-David Wildman, Boston Globe

Click on photo to download as PDF. Photo by Nate Dow

from The Extended Play Sessions at The Fallout Shelter Norwood, MA

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Read a review of the show here.

Turn Back the World (complimentary copy)

Wooden Leg

MP3 Format

Recorded Live in Boston, Mass

Mickey Bones - Drums; Brian Dunton Fender Bass; Joe Kessler - Fiddle & some harmonies; Duke Levine - Electric Guitar; Jimmy Ryan - Mandolin and Vocals.

Recorded by Michael Green; Mixed by David Westner; Mastered by Joe Lambert

Thanks to the Dunton Boys for their good advice!

Cover Image by Donna

MP3 Format

Recorded Live in Boston, Mass

Mickey Bones - Drums; Brian Dunton Fender Bass; Joe Kessler - Fiddle & some harmonies; Duke Levine - Electric Guitar; Jimmy Ryan - Mandolin and Vocals.

Recorded by Michael Green; Mixed by David Westner; Mastered by Joe Lambert

Thanks to the Dunton Boys for their good advice!

Cover Image by Donna Sartanowicz; Layout and Design by Chris Gleason and Bruce Bartone.

All Songs Written by Jimmy Ryan (Sanguine Citrus/BMI) Except “Turn Back the World by Ryan/ Sartanowicz; “Champaign” by Ryan/Spencer; “Relax Your Mind” by Huddie Ledbetter (Folkways Music Publishing); “Mind Your Own Business” by Hank Williams (Sony/ATV Acuff Rose Music), & “Little Maggie” (traditional).

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