Artist description Daring mix of old time music, bluegrass, early jazz and original music.

Music Style Bluegrass

Musical Influences Doc Watson, New Lost City Ramblers, Rolling Stones, Bill Monroe

Similar Artists One Way Out, GDB, David Bromberg, Robert Johnson

Artist History Begun in 1974, heyday in mid 70's, smattering of performances to 2001, reunited and performing in 2002 coinciding with CD release.

Group Members Curtis Driedger Graydon Clipperton Edward Dick Leland Clipperton

Instruments fiddle, viola, mandolin, guitar, bass, autoharp, dulcimer, harmonica, jaw harp

Albums Back Porch Delivery

Press Reviews BLUEGRASS BAND RELEASES CD RECORDED TWENTY-SIX YEARS AGO Peterborough musician Curtis Driedger announces the release of an album recorded by the bluegrass band, “Back Porch Delivery”, available from www.AudioEra.com (E-mail BPD@AudioEra.com for more info). Never heard of them? Well, first of all, you’d have to have been around Peterborough during the summer of ’75 in order to know about this quite remarkable musical group. Driedger first came to Peterborough in the fall of 1974 to attend Trent University, intent not only on a Bachelor of Arts but also on playing lots of fiddle and mandolin. Soon he had teamed up with banjo player Ed Dick, the soon-to-be founder of Ed’s Music Workshop that still exists today. The addition of brothers Graydon and Leland Clipperton on guitar and bass rounded out the group. “A generation ago, Peterborough was very much a music town, as it remains today”, says Driedger. “By far the most common music to be heard was country and western. A person could go out any night of the week (except Sunday of course) and hear country music played in at least half a dozen venues. At the various hotels, there was never a cover charge, and beer was cheap. I remember that draft beer was twenty cents a glass.” Trent students of that time period had easy access to this rich element of Peterborough culture, while at the same time contributing to the mix by bringing in folk music, particularly bluegrass and country rock. “This was a very heady time here for young musicians”, continues Driedger. “It was during this period that groups were formed that have continued in one form or another to the present day, such as Max Mouse and the Gorillas, Prairie Oyster, and Rev. Ken and the Lost Followers. Stylistically, it was very much mix and match, but there was always an underlying acknowledgement of musical roots that helped tie it all together.” In the year 1975, the Back Porch Delivery was very much a part of this scene. “We chose bluegrass as our genre, but into that mold we injected some rather bizarre elements”, says Driedger. “We played songs by the Rolling Stones and the Grateful Dead, old tin pan alley numbers, ragtime and blues, and we did them bluegrass style. Of course we did Flatt and Scruggs and other more standard material. We particularly enjoyed singing, and had killer four part harmony”. The group played primarily at various hotels around town and the province. In the summer of ’75 a friend and supporter of the group, Neil Turnbull, offered to record them. This took place in a homemade studio at Point Pelee National Park, recorded live off the floor through an eight channel mixing board, and onto a Harmon Kardon stereo cassette recorder. “We thought this was all pretty sophisticated stuff. Of course it was pretty primitive, even by 1975 standards. When we unearthed the tape this past year, it was full of wow, flutter and tape hiss.” A rough digital version of the tape then went into the care of Graydon’s son David Clipperton, working with AudioEra.com, who brilliantly enhanced the recording and deleted the extraneous noise. The result is a great sounding album that sounds like it was recorded just last week. “When we got together back then to do this, who would have thought that we would be releasing it twenty-six years down the road”, marvels Driedger, “and in a format that none of us would even have dreamed of? The CD was still years in the future.” The CD is available at www.AudioEra.com. E-mail BPD@AudioEra.com for more information.

Additional Info Go to www.AudioEra.com for more info, or e-mail BPD@AudioEra.com.

Location Toronto, Ontario - Canada

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