2025
Our new album, “Across the Sea,” (Tiki Parlour Recordings) features two friends sitting in: Scottish clawhammer banjo maestro M. Starkey & Irish trad wizard Paddy League. We did limited runs of both Vinyl and CD, so grab one while you can on our Bandcamp page.
“What a beautiful blend of my favorite traditional genres by musicians who are well versed in them! You will love this album!” —Adam Hurt
“As usual, the tune selection is great and the execution is powerful and rhythmic… You could get this recording to learn the tunes or you could just enjoy listening to it. Either way, I give it my highest recommendation.” —Folkworks
2023
“This is truly something else, with an ambience of such beauty -- dark, bright and other shades -- that it ought to feel like the distant landscape of another reality but is instead warm and close, even if still offering up a glance of the otherworldly.”
-- Rambles
"Heartfelt artistry in the oldest sounds of Appalachian music, and with room for creativity and brilliant inspiration. Absolutely wonderful!"
--Jimmy Triplett
”Rare, archaic, crooked and delightfully gritty Old-Time Appalachian fiddle tunes.”
-- Folkworks
2018
“There is a conscious sense of playing music that means something, of playing it in ways that honour the tradition and those from whom the tunes are handed down. At the same time, these are musicians who bring qualities of their own, reflecting their own engagement with what they're playing and infusing the tunes with character that brings out their life and soul.”
-- Musical Traditions
“This reviewer gives this CD his highest recommendation.”
-- Bluegrass Unlimited
“A total delight from start to finish.”
-- The Living Tradition
2014
"As honest and direct a representation of music sourced from past generations of North Carolina, Kentucky and Virginia fiddlers as one could wish for.
Great tone, and everything’s played with just the right amount of pace and attack, with nothing wasted or superfluous. It is a tremendous resource for fiddle players and a rewarding listen for the rest of us."
-- fRoots Magazine
2015
"Their second volume of raw, stripped-back fiddle tunes, culled from deeply obscure sources and brought into the light.
What’s wonderful about Hog-Eyed Man 2 is that it’s moving to the traditional minimalism that’s become so important in Irish traditions. When you strip the music away to the bone, you realize how much is at the core of the tradition."
-- Devon Leger, "5 Artists Shaking Up Old-Time Music," The Bluegrass Situation
2016
"Powerful tunes.
Great music, and particularly great fiddling, is a seamless fusion of rhythm and melody, which has the power to reach deep inside us and inspire strong emotional responses. Cade's fiddling does that to full effect, and the other players deftly enhance it.
It's a masterpiece."
-- Bluegrass Unlimited
The first three Hog-eyed Man volumes were recorded live by Tom Lewis in Jim Hawkins' gorgeous Studio 1093 in Athens, GA. "Old World Music of the Southern Appalachians,” was recorded live by Andrew Reissiger at Studio 1093 and by Jason and Rob (with Andrew’s help) at Jason’s Apple Blossom Recordings (i.e., his basement). “Kicked Up a Devil of a Row” was recorded live and mixed by David Bragger in North Los Angeles at Tiki Parlour Recordings. “Across the Sea” was recorded by Jason at home, and then mixed and mastered by Andrew on Vashon Island in Washington State.
We’ve also got two unofficial digital-only releases: an EP of winter/holiday tunes recorded with Cameron DeWhitt on their podcast “Get Up in the Cool,” and a bootleg tape of a pandemic era speakeasy live show.
