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The Field Recorder's Collective has released a cd of the Chicken Chokers material recorded 1985-1986 when Mark Graham was in the band. It is called FRC603 – The Chicken Chokers (From the collection of Ray Alden).

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Here is a band that is closely related to the Chicken Chokers:

Sandy Stark-fiddle and vocals; Mike Donoghue-banjo; Chip Smith-guitar and vocals; Jim Reidy-banjo-ukelele and lead vocals; Paul Strother-bass and low vocals.

A review of "The Leavin's" by Suzy Rothfield Thompson in the Old Time Herald.

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"Swimming Hole" was written and recorded by Chad Crumm at his studio (the
Music Tank), located just outside of Trumansburg, New York, home of the
Finger Lakes Grass Roots Festival of Music and Dance. The material is a
departure from any previous recorded effort by Chad. "Swimming Hole" makes
ample use of ambient noise, software synths, samplers, static loops, pitch
shifting, usual and unusual acoustic resources and today's state of the
art studio technology. Despite a busy patchwork of tonal color, rhythm and

• Rounder Old-Time Music, Released 01/01/1987
• The Young Fogies, Released 01/01/1994
• The Young Fogies, V. II, Released 01/01/1995
• Hills of Home: 25 Years of Folk Music on Rounder Records, Released 01/01/1995
• The Real Music Box: 25 Years of Rounder Records, Released 01/01/1995
• Rounder Bluegrass Guitar, Released 01/01/1996
• At This Stage...30 Years at the Wheatland Music Festival, Released 10/22/2004
  

**** Old-time instrumentation, a pseudo-punk bad attitude, and a hilarious title-track rap from this short-lived but fun band from Boston. -Mark A. Humphrey, All Music Guide to Country: The Definitive Guide to Country Music, 2003, p. 143

An LP The Chicken Chokers recorded on Rounder Records, released in 1987. It includes several originals by Chip and Chad, and 'Watertrain', written by Michael Hurley. This is very hard to find, since very few of these LPs were made.