The Woodshed Tapes

High & Lonesome have been trying on and off to be accepted to perform at the National Celtic Festival, held at Port Arlington on the Bellarine Peninsula on the Queen's Birthday long-weekend in June.

The boys are well-known for their hillbilly bent - playing Bluegrass and Americana Country, but long-time followers will remember that High & Lonesome began more or less as a duo with mostly Celtic material.

Geoff has been playing Celtic material since the days of The Beatles, and there aren't many Celtic bands in Geelong that haven't utilised the wonderful fiddle playing of maestro Matiss Schubert.  read more »

The High & Lonesome Sinnbeck Experience gathered last week in Chips' Woodshed to whip up a demo of the cream of the Tassie Tour for a Maldon Folk Festival application.

The recordings were made using an Edirol R-09 digital recorder with built-in studio quality mini-condenser microphones (it looks like, and is about the size of, an electric razor). It records better than CD quality at 48Khz and 24-bit. Slim has been keen to try using what Steve Earle called the 'One Mic No Shit' recording technique, much favoured by Bluegrass performers.  read more »