The Salty Dawgs are simply three guys having fun and playing the music that never seems to die; music that doesn’t grow old with the times—music that keeps people coming back to see us week after week, year after year, for over thirty years and counting. We are performers, songwriters and collectors. We keep alive the best of what has come before us and try to create a little something for the world to enjoy. I’d imagine that our repertoire is as extensive as any other group out there.

    The songs we sing and the stories we tell are the gifts and blessings of lives lived deliberately. Gifts because we deeply care about our audience, and we give our heart and soul to every performance; and blessings, because we know how lucky we are to be scratching out at least a part of our living by sharing our vision of enduring music through the time tested words and music of countless generations that have shared our love of music. Our dream in the studio is to produce impeccable recordings of traditional, vintage, and original music and spoken word that will become the heirlooms you and your families will share for years to come.

    Playing a live show with Hatrack and Seth is always a magical and memorable experience. Seth is an absolutely incredible musician with an “unmatched wizardry on anything with strings!” More than likely he’s as good a player as you will ever have the hear play—and as good a guy as you’ll ever meet!  “Hatrack”  plays harmonica and sings those high harmonies and traditional blues with a passion and soul matched only by the depth and breadth of his character (and man, he certainly is a character!). It’s all stuff he learned directly from playing with guys like “Peg Leg Sam”, and Sonny Terry and Brownhie McGhee. He, too, is utterly amazing—honestly, like no one you ever heard before. I know a bunch of songs, maybe as many songs as Seth does guitar licks (or mandolin, or banjo, or dobro, or piano, or whatever else he happens to tote along) and at least as many tasteless jokes as Hatrack.

    It all adds up to a lot of fun every time we play. And that goes for any time we get ourselves into Seth's studio to record!

    Songs from the Dawghouse is a collection of some our favorite songs—songs that seem to work whenever and wherever we play them.  I think they will work for you, too.

Thanks for taking the time to listen.

~Fitz

August 3, 2010