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This playlist features videos of Jalopy Records artists, The Down Hill Strugglers. Follow them @downhillstrugglers DownHillStrugglers.com JalopyRecords.org Down Hill Strugglers bio: The Down Hill Strugglers is an old time string band. They have released albums on Smithsonian Folkways Recordings and Jalopy Records and are featured on the soundtrack to the Coen Brothers film, "Inside Llewyn Davis" produced by T-Bone Burnett, Dreamland with Margot Robbie as well as other films and video games. The band formed while hanging out at the home of their mutual friend Peter Stampfel of the Holy Modal Rounders, where they also met bandmate and mentor John Cohen of the New Lost City Ramblers. Their music reflects and extends the strong feeling and diversity of sounds found on old commercial and field recordings from as early as the 1920s and 1930s. The Down Hill Strugglers carry forward the sounds of the old, rural America. The band is: Walker Shepard - guitar, voice, fiddle, banjo Eli Smith - banjo, guitar, mandolin, harmonica, pump organ Jackson Lynch - fiddle, voice, guitar “The Down Hill Strugglers are, to my ears, the very best interpreters of traditional material presently going.” - Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker "Many string bands have the tunes but not the chops. Some have chops and tunes, but can't achieve lift-off, marching along politely like so many historical reenactors. But the Down Hill Strugglers hit the trifecta, pulling their bows deftly across the best numbers in the old-time songbook with more grit and style than just about any group fiddling away today." - Nathan Salsburg, Curator, Alan Lomax Archive.