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new CD - COMING TO GET YOU now in mastering phase & will soon be available at MOTHERNATURESARMY.COM******new 10-song collection is MNA's first non-bootleg release since 1992 & features BUCKET OF CHICKEN & A HEART ATTACK, DISTANT CANDLE, BUY MORE STUFF, SHANNON DELANEY, LOVE QUAKE, JONESTOWN, RUBY RIDGE, HANG 'EM AT THE HAGUE, WESTERN STATE, COMING TO GET YOU******VINTAGE MNA recordings will also be available at mothernaturesarmy.com for cheap download including LIVE AT MAMA'S, BEST OF MALIBU FOLK, LIVE AT THE BLUEBIRD, LIVE IGUANA & FRIENDS******Train wrecks have been around almost as long as trains--here's your chance to see one live, on stage!!!! Mother Nature's Army is your soundtrack to the eco-indigenous revolution since 1989******Featured songs will change soon. Stay posted for latest recordings: YOU'RE GONNA NEED THAT HYDROGEN BOMB, FORESKIN BLUES, CONSPIRANOIA, KILL THAT COW, WISH I HAD AN AK-47, MY GURU'S BETTER THAN YOUR GURU, I SAW JESUS ON THE 405, WACO THE WHITE MAN'S WOUNDED KNEE, MAN IN BLACK (BURN THIS PRISON DOWN), THIS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE, SHINTAKO POPWANDO, DESPISE THE RICH******MNA CDs will be released on the Psychorelic Records label, which also released Bayard Johnson's side project with Dr. Timothy Leary titled "LSD" (Leary/Stokes Duets, with rockamaniac Simon Stokes), recorded in 1996 as Leary grokked cancer and contemplated having his ashes blasted into space in company with Gene Roddenberry...you can hear some of this subversive album for free at CD Baby--but BEWARE OF and DO NOT BUY the rip-off bogus bootleg version of this album titled "Right To Fly"!!!!******IMPORTANT NOTICE: ANYONE HAVING ANY INFORMATION ON WHEREABOUTS OF MNA'S MANDOLIN PLAYER THOM MCLAUGHLIN AKA THOM MCMANDOLIN PLEASE POST COMMENT--THOM WENT AWOL IN AUGUST 1993 AND WAS LAST SEEN LIVING IN VINTAGE TIOGA IN VICINITY OF BASS LAKE CALIFORNIA!?*??%!!

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Member Since: 04/01/2008
Band Website: mothernaturesarmy.com
Band Members: CURRENT LINEUP: Andy Manoff, bass & vocals; Bayard Johnson, guitar & vocals; Eric Bivoino, guitar & vocals; Jef Davis, strat, bowed psaltery, octave mandolin, piano, & every other musical device yet devised; Manton Ivory, keyboard; PLUS assorted unannounced guests including but not limited to: Jack Ripper, strat; John Crowther, crwth; Lyndal Johnson, vocals; Rio, vocals******VINTAGE RECORDINGS******RATHOUSE SESSION (5 song demo, 1990) features Bayard Johnson, guitar & vocals; Gayle Martin, mountain dulcimer & vocals; Jef Davis, bowed psaltery, octave mandolin, percussion; John Crowther, guitar; Katie Stewart, bass; Thom McLaughlin, mandolin******LIVE AT MAMA'S (1992) features Andy Manoff, bass & slide guitar; Bayard Johnson, guitar & vocals; Gayle Martin, mountain dulcimer & vocals; John Crowther, fiddle; Thom McLaughlin, mandolin******LIVE AT THE BLUEBIRD (1993) features Bayard Johnson, guitar & vocals; Doug Maas, percussion; Gayle Martin, mountain dulcimer & vocals; Thom McLaughlin, mandolin & electric guitar; Trish Martin, bass; Buddy Helm, drums******MALIBU FOLK RECORDINGS(1993, 1994) feature Bayard Johnson, guitar & vocals; Dannette Christine, upright bass; Gayle Martin, mountain dulcimer & vocals; Randy Chance, electric guitar; Buddy Helm, drums******ADDITIONAL TRUTHS: ANDY MANOFF won the special instruments category at the Topanga Bango & Fiddle Contest and his song "MARIE" is included in the FASTFOLK recording in the Smithsonian Institute's musical archives; BAYARD JOHNSON has written numerous movies and the novel DAMNED RIGHT (Fiction Collective 2), which has been translated into German with the title SPEED TAXI (FABER & FABER); JOHN CROWTHER wrote Charles Bronson & Chuck Norris movies and is now a cartoonist & one of the world's pre-eminent crwth players; Terik Bivoino is a supermodel with black fingernails; THOM MCLAUGHLIN won the mandolin competition at the Topanga Banjo & Fiddle Contest; RANDY CHANCE toured Europe with the Lovin' Spoonful; Buddy Helm drummed for Tim Buckley and Frank Zappa
Influences: cro-magnon chants
Sounds Like: Mother Nature's Army
Record Label: Psychorelic Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

LINER NOTES - BUCKET OF CHICKEN & A HEART ATTACK

A true story, more or less. What more can I say?
Posted by on Fri, 05 Dec 2008 21:21:00 GMT

LINER NOTES - SHANNON DELANEY

We were in Alaska salmon fishing when they opened a whole new area for nets, just off the Kenai River Entrance. Whoever got those sites was rich. Everybody packed guns, there was no real law. Brawls w...
Posted by on Fri, 05 Dec 2008 21:20:00 GMT

THE MOTHER NATURES ARMY PROJECT -

MOTHER NATURE'S ARMY has been playing live since 1989. Apart from the twelve songs on the 1992 release LIVE AT MAMA'S, none of MNA's hundreds of songs have been available to the public. That is about ...
Posted by on Fri, 05 Dec 2008 21:18:00 GMT