The Beast with Five Strings, by Hank Tilbury

The Beast with Five Strings

by Hank Tilbury

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1.	Racing the Moon 02:31		buy track
2.	The Watched Pot 02:16		buy track
3.	Anubis and Ra Visit the West Bottoms 01:37	info	buy track
4.	Shamblin' Man 02:43		buy track
5.	Bonaparte Crossing the Pecos 03:20		buy track
6.	Cabin Creek Variations 04:08	info	buy track
7.	Cockeyed Monkey 02:13		buy track
8.	Illinois Blues 02:59	info	buy track
9.	Cumberland Gap 02:31	info	buy track
10.	Hiram's Bluff 02:10		buy track
11.	John Henry 03:15	info	buy track
12.	Mud Mountain Shivaree 03:22		buy track
13.	Pre-Dawn Preoccupations 03:06		buy track
14.	Twin Sisters 03:25	info	buy track
15.	The Midnight Gap 04:14		buy track
16.	Belinder 01:51		buy track
17.	Toad-Frog 02:53		buy track

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This is a collection of traditional and original tunes and improvisations for a variety of five-string banjos and ukuleles.

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released March 28, 2020

Hank Tilbury plays steel-string banjos, nylon-string gourd banjos, five-string ukuleles, percussion and keyboards.

Hearn Gadbois plays goblet drum on "Anubis and Ra Visit the West Bottoms".

All compositions copyright 2020 Hank Tilbury except "Cabin Creek Variations", "Cumberland Gap", "John Henry" and "Twin Sisters", which are traditional tunes arranged by HT, and "Illinois Blues" by Skip James. "Anubis and Ra Visit the West Bottoms" is by Hearn Gadbois and Hank Tilbury.

Recorded and mastered by Fletcher Munson in the studios of the National Repository for the Collective Unconscious.

Front cover art by Ivory Black. Back cover art by Roy Umber.

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"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method."--Herman Melville

While it's true Melville was referring specifically to the process of rendering blubber from a floating whale carcass, the same philosophy could be applied to our approach to music: make plans, but make them flexible; improvise and adapt. "Careful Disorderliness" is our motto. ... more

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