Waking Up Tillie

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About WUT's CD, Ground Hog Day:

"…We have here a nice mix of tunes and songs by a talented group steeped in the Appalachian music tradition. " read the full review

Lyle Lofgren, Old Time Herald, February 2006

"Groundhog Day opens with "G Rag" from the playing of Earl Johnson and his Clodhoppers. It is a rollicking tune featuring Pete's fingerstyle banjo and Randy's slinky fiddle. "I Know My Name is There" follows, from the playing and singing of DaCosta Woltz's Southern Broadcasters. Pete and Kellie's vocals have just the right ragged quality necessary for authenticity. "Georgia Wagoner" and "Hell Among the Yearlings" are great fiddle workouts for Randy.

"Forgiveness" is a new song from Sarah Hawker of the Lonesome Sisters with Kellie's plaintive vocals and Dobroist Peter Szego's Bashful Brother Oswald-style weepy steel. Holiness music is also represented with "When the Moon Drips Away Into Blood." Waking Up Tille has done a fine job of reestablishing styles of music just being rediscovered by old-time players. "

Sing Out!, Winter 2006

"Anyone who enjoys authoritative old-time music will definitely appreciate this particular little treasure… 'Ground Hog Day' is an invigorating offering of old-time music from Waking Up Tillie."

Bluegrass Unlimited, November 2005

"Randy Johnson has found something new to say about the often-discussed Georgia Wagoner and several other old tunes. Pete Peterson is always finding something new to say on his Charlie Poole banjo. And Kellie Allen just finds something new to say: she lets her voice do the talking."

Bill Moffett, Country Corner, WCOJ-AM

"Ultra clean picking, right on harmonies, and pure fun!"

Stew Schneider, WMMT's Dutchman at 88.7 in the coal fields, appalshop.org on the net

"There are fascinating tracks in this collection which I've not heard before, as well as some more familiar material, so it all makes for a most entertaining album. The musical selections, performances and arrangements are all of a high standard and the sleeve notes are interesting, relevant and readable. Congratulations on a most enjoyable new CD."

Bruce Cameron, 'Come All Ye,' Radio 2MCE-FM, Bathurst, NSW, Australia

"Marj and I love it, and our kids aren't too sick of hearing it, either. Great blend of voices, great tune and song selection, a real party for the ears!"

Jim Mullany

"Nice combination of musicians and material… great stuff!"

Gail Gillespie, Editor, Old Time Herald

"LOVE IT! It sounds REALLY OLD-TIME, all-round. Excellent. Yes!!"

Kathy Shimberg

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About Kellie Allen:

"She has one of the strongest voices in the old-time music scene today. Her tone, vocal dexterity and phrasing are right at the top. Her guitar playing is exactly right to my ear. Her playing resembles the playing of the Skillet Lickers' wild guitarist Riley Puckett, but with good taste – Kellie will use complex, often chromatic, bass runs to move from one chord to another, bringing out the melody, not competing with it."

Old-Time Herald, Winter 2004-05,
On-line Bonus Review of Orpheus Supertones CD, Bound to Have a Little Fun

"Allen's voice has the flinty, emotional immediacy and power associated with outstanding traditional singers such as Ginny Hawker and Hazel Dickens…"

Old-Time Herald, Summer 2003, Review of Well Tempered String Band's eponymous CD

About Pete Peterson:

"While others were learning the banjo styles of Tommy Jarrell, Kyle Creed and Fred Cockerham, Pete was channeling Charlie Poole. His knowledge of this music is encyclopedic. He also plays guitar like many of the old-timers, with a thumb pick and brushing fingers. His primary banjo style is three-finger picking, but more a cross between classical technique and clawhammer, at least in effect. It allows him an enormous amount of variety in playing old-time tunes and songs, and he takes full advantage of it."

Old-Time Herald, Winter 2004-05, On-line Bonus Review of Orpheus Supertones CD, Bound to Have a Little Fun.

"Pete Peterson (known to festival goers as a walking song encyclopedia) is a skilled exponent of classical and Charlie Poole-influenced fingerstyle banjo with several recordings to his credit. He is also a sensitive accompanist on guitar."

Old-Time Herald, Summer 2003, Review Well Tempered String Band’s eponymous CD.

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