Original Harmony Ridge Creekdippers

In these days of corporate drivin music it is brilliant to see someone in the business for the craft rather than the fame attatched. Mark Olson is an outstanding songwriter and storyteller! Ever since his early days with the Jayhawks the song has been the most important thing. If beautiful stories and lyrics over haunting melodies and mellifluous harmonies are your thing then get not only this but everything this man has recorded.I interviewed Victoria Williams once; she washed dishes while she talked to me on the phone. It wasn't meant as an insult, and the interview certainly didn't suffer for it. It was just that important things like chores had to be done, press schedule or not. It was a very down home moment; her life with husband Mark Olson seems to be full of such moments.The couple homesteads in Joshua Tree, California. They pretty much renovated their entire house on their own. They dug their own well. Indeed, these are not people who are out of touch with normal life, although they've certainly had their brushes with the limelight. Olson was a central member of the Jayhawks, and Williams' struggle with multiple sclerosis was much publicized when A-list names like Lou Reed, Victoria Williams, and Pearl Jam convened in her honor for the first Sweet Relief benefit record.Those days have passed, though, and the couple go about making music that, while it doesn't set any charts on fire, is genuinely appreciated by a fair number of people. The Original Harmony Ridge Creekdippers (known as The Creekdippers) is a very loose, lo-fi way for Olson, Williams, and their friends to create music. ENJOY!!