The Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir recorded Fighting and Onions at the start of 2005. The quartet recorded in the same room at the same time, and at least half of the session's 18 songs are strictly live performances mixed through ambient room microphones.

The brooding interpretation of Reverend Gary Davis' Death Don't Have No Mercy or the may-as-well-be-a-hardcore-band rendition of Son House's Preaching Blues display exactly what went down in the room.

The theory of their recording technique is that if musicians in the 1930s could pull off that kind of recording, then what is the excuse for many of today's musicians coddled by studio technology?

A raw, live feeling album, and that is exactly the point.

Track Listing :

• Stay Here for Awhile
• Buried Them In Water
• Special Rider
• Oh Sorrow
• Weasel
• Look Up Look Down That Lonesome Road
• North Country Grass
• Preaching Blues
• Vinegar & Piss
• Table o' the Lord
• Bouncin' Betty
• Come Along With Me
• Death Don't Have No Mercy
• Lighten Up, Would Ya?
• Lousy Drunk
• Things I Forgot
• Not Too Bad
• Stay Here for Awhile (reprise)

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