Progressive acoustic band MilkDrive releases debut CD
Category: CD Release
By Travis Tackett
July 20, 2009
MilkDrive Live '09
Austin, TX — MilkDrive, the Austin progressive acoustic string band, has released its debut CD, “MilkDrive Live ‘09,” a live album that captures the band’s soulful, textural and multi-layered mix of rhythms, tempos, flavors, downbeats and improvisation.
“MilkDrive Live ‘09,” independently released while the quartet was in the midst of over a week’s worth of performances in local clubs in Idaho and at the National Oldtime Fiddlers’ Contest and Festival in Weiser, where three members met and two competed as kids.
Principal songwriter-multi-instrumentalist Noah Jeffries grew up playing bluegrass and gospel in Idaho and started writing amazing tunes at the age of 14. He eventually got to Austin and joined up with fiddling champion-mandolin player Dennis Ludiker, a member of South Austin Jug Band that Jeffries had met long ago at the Idaho competition — as well as Brian Beken, fiddler for South Austin Jug Band and The Gougers and a multi-instrumentalist himself; and swing/jazz bass player Matt Mefford later joined the band to complete MilkDrive.
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