Friday, October 26, 2018

Red Dead Redemption 2



Check out Eli Smith and Walker Shepard from the Down Hill Strugglers, playing on the score and the in-game music for Red Dead Redemption 2 - which comes out today! It is a truly amazing game, a Western set in 1899.

You will find Eli playing banjo on the game's cinematic score, as well as contributing to the in-game music. In the world of the video game you will hear Eli playing banjo, guitar, jaw harp, mandolin and whistling and Walker playing the fiddle. Eli also arranged and adapted old and traditional songs, re-written to fit the game, and taught the songs to the actors who play the characters...  And if you look real close you will find him in the game, in the role of a cowboy, sitting at a campfire playing guitar...

Eli and Walker worked on this game off and on for about 2 1/2 years and are very happy to see it finished and issued to the world.

Says one reviewer:
"If there is anything here in this game that feels actually, genuinely perfect, it's the music."

Says another reviewer:
"Rockstar Games’ new open-world western opus is exhaustively detailed and exhaustingly beautiful, a mammoth construction of which every nook and cranny has been polished to an unnerving shimmer. It is a stirring tribute to our world’s natural beauty, and a grim acknowledgment of our own starring role in its destruction. It tells a worthy and affecting story that weaves dozens of character-driven narrative threads into an epic tapestry across many miles and almost as many months. When the sun sets and the tale has been told, it leaves players with a virtual wild-west playground so convincingly rendered and filled with surprises that it seems boundless."

And another:
"Even more impressive is the selection of original music that references in-game locations and events. Hearing a song about the fictitious city you’re in that references all the other fictitious locations around really helps make the world feel even more alive and connected."

Wednesday, August 1, 2018

Summer & Fall Tour Dates

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The Down Hill Strugglers are taking to the road!  And we're heading West!  Look out...

Sat. August 11th
John Cohen with the Down Hill Strugglers
8pm
Jalopy Theatre
315 Columbia St.
Brooklyn, NY
www.JalopyTheatre.org




Thurs. & Fri.  September 6th and 7th
Oldtone Roots Music Festival
with John Cohen (On Sept. 7th)
Cool Whisper Farm
North Hillsdale, NY
www.oldtonemusicfestival.com




Sun. September 9th
Washington Square Park Folk Festival
with John Cohen
2:30pm
Free & open to the public!
www.wspfolkfest.com

Wed. September 19th
Clovene
7:45 doors, music shortly after 8!
BYOB and chair and donation
203 Pope St.
Louisville, KY



September 27th - 30th
Berkeley Old Time Music Convention
Berkeley, CA
www.berkeleyoldtimemusic.org

Tues. October 2nd
House Concert
Santa Cruz, CA
Details TBA

Wed. October 3rd
House Concert
Mountain View, CA
7:30pm
email for info and reservations:
SV.houseconcerts@gmail.com

Sat. Ocober. 6th
Boulevard Music
with Jim Kweskin
4316 Sepulveda Blvd, Culver City
Los Angeles, CA
www.boulevardmusic.com


Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Old Time Herald Review

 
Thanks so much to Sonya Badigian and the Old Time Herald magazine for the great review of The Down Hill Strugglers latest album, "Lone Prairie" - out on Jalopy Records.


Listen to the album and order your copy at: www.downhillstrugglers.bandcamp.com/album/lone-prairie

Read the review below!

Friday, March 16, 2018

2018 Mud Season Tour!

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The Down Hill Strugglers are taking to the road in April for our Spring 2018, "Mud Season" tour!

Sat. April 21st 
Folk School Coffee Parlor
332 Elm St.
Ludlow, KY
www.folkschoolcoffeeparlor.com

Sun. April 22nd
Clovene
Louisville, KY
Email us for details

Wed. April 25th
The Shine House
402 N Main St.
Somerset, KY 
7pm
www.theshinehouse.com

Fri. & Sat. April 27th & 28th
Georgia String Band Festival
at the Harris Arts Center
212 S Wall Street
Calhoun, GA 30701
www.facebook.com/georgiastringbandfestival/

Sun. April 29th
House Concert
Atlanta, GA
email: tradhouse9 [at] gmail.com for details

Mon. April 30th
Country Fest
St. Roch Tavern
1200 St Roch Ave
New Orleans, LA
8pm

Thursday, February 15, 2018

Brooklyn Folk Festival


Check out the Down Hill Strugglers with John Cohen 

- Live at the Brooklyn Folk Festival!

Comin' up in April 6-8th!  We're playing at 7pm on Sunday April 8th.

More info at www.BrooklynFolkFest.com