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OLD JUNIPER
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“[Old Juniper is] a doozy. Old and new, evocative, current—all original. And I, as one who’s always had one foot in “old weird America” and the other in new weird America, love this recording.
Down Hill Strugglers have, as Nathan Salsburg put it in his notes, 'an exquisite sensitivity to the seam where collective tradition and individual artistry meet.' I couldn’t agree more.”
- ALICE GERRARD
The Down Hill Strugglers is an old time string band. They have released albums on Smithsonian Folkways Recordings and Jalopy Records and are featured on the soundtrack to the Coen Brothers film, "Inside Llewyn Davis" produced by T-Bone Burnett, Dreamland with Margot Robbie as well as other films and video games.
The band formed while hanging out at the home of their mutual friend Peter Stampfel of the Holy Modal Rounders, where they also met bandmate and mentor John Cohen of the New Lost City Ramblers. Their music reflects and extends the strong feeling and diversity of sounds found on old commercial and field recordings from as early as the 1920s and 1930s. The Down Hill Strugglers carry forward the sounds of the old, rural America.
MUSIC
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Lone Prairie
2017
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Show Me The Way To Go Home
2013
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Home Recordings: Vol. 1
2012
“The Down Hill Strugglers are, to my ears, the very best interpreters of traditional material presently going.”
- AMANDA PETRUSICH, The New Yorker
