The South End String Band
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Coleen Allen |
The South End String Band is a conflagration of local musicians including Seagrass Gallery glass artist Jack Archibald. Jack also produces South End-themed tongue-in-cheek posters and flyers suitable for framing. Down in the ravines of the South End, time stands still and the stills still stand. Its backwash, back porch denizens still hoe their gardens, chop their wood, erect their cabins, build their boats, and play their music with the neighbors. The South End may well be a culture on its way out the back screen door of the 20th century, but not without a fight.
"... maybe you'll find something reminiscent of
grandma's smile, or uncle Joe's quirky sense of humor, or sister Sarah's
knack for homemade pies. Look too hard, of course, and you'll find
grandpa's jug out in the woodshed and some of those stories the grownups
were whispering too low for us kids to hear behind closed doors."
Sit with us a
spell and imagine a time that's paced to a rhythm tuned to the seasons and
the tides. 'Course, you sit with us very long and you'll be quittin' your
job too. You let these hedonists fetch up a jug of Erich's Moonshine
Merlot, it ain't too long till you think workin's for damn fools.
A smart fella knows when it's quittin' time, and the
rest of us think it's always that time. In the immortal words of Sleeter
Daddle: When the jug's empty, boys, it's time to face the music.
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