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Chicks With Guns is an old-time stringband from deep in the hills of Stone County, Missouri. Their music is as wild as the Ozarks' backwoods, as free as the crystal clear streams, and as explosive as moonshine. Billy Mathews has thirty years of professional music performance behind him, including national tours with The Skirtlifters. Tom Hall has been playing blues guitar around St. Louis for three decades, and was a founding member of the legendary Geyer Street Sheiks. Ozark native Barbara Weathers has been immersed in traditional music for ten years, absorbing tunes and style from such masters as Art Galbraith, Bob Holt and Jim & Kim Lansford. Since banding together three years ago, with Billy on fiddle, Tom on banjo, and Barbara on guitar, they have earned a reputation at dances across the Midwest for exciting and compelling dance music, especially fiery Missouri fiddle tunes and original arrangements. The tension created by the combination of their diverse musical tastes gives their sound a special edge.

Check out the artist's website:
http://www.geocities.com/chicks_with_guns/

Track List:
1. Bennie Ate A Woodchuck/Hog Trough Reel
2. Cincinnati Reel/Adrian's Hornpipe
3. Lady of the Lake/Forked Deer
4. Saddle Old Kate
5. Illinois Ricketts'/Fisher's/Durang's Hornpipe
6. Ducks on the Millpond
7. Carry Me Along Waltz
8. Pretty Little Miss/Chase the Banshee
9. Cowboy's Dream/Lost Indian
10. Sandy River Belle/Chicken Found A Pepper
11. In the Parlor Waltz
12. hidden track

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FOLK: Traditional Folk
TYPE: ACOUSTIC