Elkville String Band

Welcome to our web site!
The Elkville String Band plays
"Traditional Country Roots Music"

"Traditional Country Roots Music" is what we play. We have been told that we don't sound like any of the other string bands around and that is exactly what we are striving for. We want to develop our own sound but we are interested in keeping the old ballads and songs from the North Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia area alive. That is our main goal. Some of the songs we do date back to the early 1800's. Some are not near that old but date back to the 50's and 60's. We do old time, bluegrass, traditional, gospel and even a blues tune now and then. All these different kinds of music were played in the Blue Ridge and Appalachian regions of our country so we want to play some of all this music and keep it alive for future generations to enjoy.

Mountain Roads Recordings has just released our new CD "Over The Mountain" on Nov. 20, 2008. It has 15 songs, including 4 original tunes, 3 by Jeff Michael and 1 by Drake Walsh, and some tunes that were sung by Dock Walsh, Drake's father. We hope you enjoy it.

Our CD "Over The Mountain" is now available on line at CDBaby, County Sales, Elderly Intruments, Napster, Music Shed, Amazon.Com, Indie Rhythm and SideStreet Distributing

We want to thank Mountain Roads Recordings and it's owners, Karl & Gail Cooler, for giving us this opportunity. We are very proud to be a part of the Mountain Roads Recording family. They are a great bunch of people.
We also want to thank "Wayne Henderson" for coming by and pickin' on 4 songs on this CD. Wayne is a great friend, musician, luthier and one of the best people you could ever meet.

Last, but certainly not least, we want to thank Wesley Easter at Eastwood Recording Studio in Cana, Va. As far as we are concerend, Wes is the best there is when it comes to recording engineers.