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To Celebrate 10 years of Music Philville Records will be adding songs & stories from the archives EVERY MONTH for all of 2010…
by December 2010 the entire bootleg Philville Records catalog will be available here |
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The band took their name from an Arlo Guthrie tune involving Reuben Clamzo and large giant man-eating clams that once roamed the coastal waters of the Eastern Untited States
(Brian Hartman also joined the band briefly in 2000 on Banjo)
The tunes below from “Clampoons Live & Liver” were recorded on Mike Fitzpatrick’s 4 track recorder at his home in Chocolay Township MI. and at the Village Pub in Marquette on 2000. Mike’s fiddle tune was multi-tracked by himself.
Mike is a great musician and was a huge influence on Matt Sayles & Ryan Olthouse—he’s played in a myriad of bands over the years, most recently in Marquette’s Zydecology.
These Recordings are the oldest tracks featuring any Philville Records artists.
Thanks Mike for getting us started! |
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This was the band that gave birth to Frostbitten Grass in 1999/2000 featuring: Mike Fitzpatrick on vocals/Cajun fiddle, button accordion, mandolin and guitar, Matt Sayles on vocals, Guitar and banjo, and Ryan Olthouse on Guitar and vocals. |
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January 2010 Archive Additions |
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“Casey’s Picks” was recorded in real-time in late 2000 by Sahl Metivier (of the Mother Superiors, Bourbon Sprawl, & other highly respected Marquette Michigan Bands) with Ryan Olthouse & Matt Sayles on two guitars. The CD was tracked at Gabe Johnson’s apartment (a great friend of Matt & Ryan) and was the project that resulted in Sayles & Olthouse forming “Frostbitten Grass” in 2001.
Casey is Ryan’s dog, and he can be heard barking faintly in the background on a few of the last tracks of the CD.
The back picture on the album is a shot taken from Sayles’ rental cabin halfway between Seney & Grand Marais Michigan on Highway 77 in the summer of 2000. The cabin was adjacent to a saw mill, and very remote—Sayles honed his flat-picking and banjo playing at the location, and wrote a few of the songs on “Casey’s Picks” while living there.
This is the very first album released by Sayles & Olthouse, and thanks to Sahl Metivier, is also the first digital recording in the Philville Records archives. Many of the songs were re-done by the Frostbitten Grass quartet in 2002 on the band’s first self-titled album—and one track—Roll on Buddy, was used directly from this session. Sayles plays slide on the cover of Duane Allman’s “Please be with me” and both Olthouse & Sayles take turns singing, harmonizing, and flat-picking on these tunes. The song “Caroline” at the end of the Track 11 medley was taught to Sayles by Geoff Renaud (a childhood friend) and mandolin player.
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These selections from the archives feature the very first recordings by Philville Records.
Philville’s first console was a Roland 840 GX. The 840 GX recorded directly to 256 MB zip-disks, and was essentially an early blending of a 4 track recorder with primitive self-contained home digital studios.
The tracks below cover a variety of styles and feature Melissa Risk playing an antique early 20th century pump organ, a cover of Black Sabbath’s “Planet Caravan” by Matt Sayles, slide guitar recordings with Mike Tripp, and one song from a jam held at Sayles’ Trowbridge home near Marquette (attending were Eric Brandon of the “Yellow Dog Band”-Fiddle, Dan Flesher-Mandolin, Bob Guidebeck-Bass, and Sven Gonstead-Dobro).
The last Track is a song written by Ryan Olthouse to his Niece “Abbey” for her Birthday in 2002. |
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These selections are from FBG’s first heavy touring years of 2002/2003 with the quartet line-up of Matt Sayles, Ryan Olthouse, Brian Hartman, & Bob Guidebeck.
2002 & 2003 were the years that Frostbitten Grass won the Michigan State Championship “Country Music Showdown” and brought the band on the road & out of Michigan for the first times.
Below are live interviews of Frostbitten Grass by Walt Lindala on Sunny 102 in Marquette MI. on Halloween 2002. Other tracks were recorded Live on New Years Eve 2002 at “Da Bar” in Lake Linden MI. |
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Live at “Da Bar” New Years Eve 2002
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This month’ s anniversary addition is the first set from a recording of the FBG quartet (Sayles, Olthouse, Hartman, Guidebeck) that was done at Emma Joe’s Coffee House in Marquette on March 14th 2002 by a really nice guy whose name (I believe) was Heath. He used no compression or effects on a single large diaphragm microphone for the recording, and did a really nice job of capturing the room sound at the coffee house.
There are also two additional tracks on here from a Trowbridge basement session that feature Mike Tripp and Matt Sayles on two guitars, and FBG rehearsing a song for the 2002 Statewide Country Music Showdown.
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In July of 2003 Frostbitten Grass received the great honor of playing the main stage at the 25th Annual Hiawatha Music Festival in Marquette, MI.
The mics from NMU’ Public Radio were rolling, and the entire set was captured on the program “In the Pines” hosted by Jane Cisluycis .
Joining FBG on stage were founding members of “The Feltliners,” a storied Marquette string band that performed at the 1st Annual Hiawatha Music Festival in 1978.
Dan Flesher & Dave Bett (Feltliners) were huge influences on FBG, and to play with them on-stage at the 25th annual festival was as flattering as it was fun.
Enjoy, and be sure to tune into “In the Pines” or attend the Hiawatha Music Festival! |
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FBG 25th Annual Hiawatha Music Festival from “In the Pines” Radio Broadcast (LARGE FILE 26 MB) |
