The Stairwell Sisters - Get Off Your Money

The Stairwell Sisters' third release Get Off Your Money was produced by Lloyd Maines and covers substantial ground.

There are fiddle tunes crafted decades ago from Alabama to Scotland and points unknown. There are old songs of trains, boats and possums. One song is translated from Swahili, an all-too familiar story learned from a street musician in Tanzania.

There are new songs too - original songs of trial and work, loss and love, and all-night parties. The women run all of it through the Sister Mill.

Regardless from which era or continent the songs have travelled, The Stairwell Sisters make such heartfelt and skillfully played music that boundaries dissolve beneath the chugging force of old-time fiddle and banjo, the whomp of bass and guitar, the grit of the slide guitar, and the tight, closely interwoven harmonies.

Lloyd Maines has it right. The Stairwell Sisters are tribal; laying down that all-gal teardown wherever they go. Get Off Your Money carries the spirit and message of the urban evolution of country string band music.

• Kentucky Winder
• Hangman Tree
• Boat's Up The River
• Cinderella
• Who's To Blame
• Shuffle And Shine
• Stay All Night
• Selina/Nancy Blevins
• Swing Low
• Charleston
• Silly Liza Jane
• Cannonball
• Sleep When You're Dead
• Black Eyes
• David And Goliath
• Get Off Your Money
• Fitch Mountain Waltz