Subject: The Down Hill Strugglers on new Coen Bros movie soundtrack, plus a new album out... To: Hello everybody, Im very pleased to announce that my band the Down Hill Strugglers (formerly known as the Dust Busters) has a song on the soundtrack to the new film by the Coen Brothers, Inside Llewyn Davis. Its track #8 on the soundtrack album, a great old folk song that I sing called The Roving Gambler. We are joined on this song by our great friend, mentor and ofttimes bandmate John Cohen who you may know from the New Lost City Ramblers. The film is really good. Its set in the Greenwich Village folk music scene in 1961 and is loosely based on parts of the autobiography of the great folk and blues singer Dave van Ronk. (If you look closely in the film you can see a photograph of our bandmate Jackson Lynch hanging on the wall in the background of a scene in a music promoters office!) Its great to see the Coen Brothers do another folk music based movie as a kind of followup to Oh Brother Where Art Thou? although the films are very different. We are very pleased and honored that our song was included on this collection, which is set for release on Nov. 11th. The film itself comes out in mid December. Other musicians on the album include the amazing and versatile Punch Brothers, Marcus Mumford (without his Sons) and noted folk singer Justin Timberlake. The album was recorded and produced by T Bone Burnett. We are also very pleased to announce the release of our new album, Show Me the Way to Go Home which we recently recorded with our friend the great string musician, collector and artist Pat Conte (of the Secret Museum of Mankind, etc.) See our website, DownHillStrugglers for samples from the new album. And we have a CD release show coming up at the Jalopy Theatre: Sunday Nov. 17th @ 8pm Jalopy Theatre 315 Columbia St. Brooklyn, NY Showtime: 8pm Jalopy.biz Hope to see you there or down the road, Eli
Posted on: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 20:30:23 +0000
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