The SiTTiNG DUcKS is an acoustic duo. It consists of Gerry McDonald and Jonathan Ashley. We perform a mix of old timey, country blues, primitive gospel and cajun songs. This set was recorded by Mark Lowrie live without amplification on 22 May 2011 at the beautiful Penny School Gallery & Cafe in Maldon Victoria Australia.
This photo shows us performing at a later gig with Clayton Jacobson sitting in on double bass. More recently we have invited Clayton to turn the SiTTiNG DUcKS into a trio. 

08 All My Tears

04 John Law Burned Down The Liquor Store

02 Reuben's Train

With the release of their fourth album, Paradise Hop, Pert Near Sandstone has managed to harness the raw energy of their famed live shows and inject it into 12 tracks of original material and a couple of originally arranged traditional songs sprinkled on top. The band’s trials and tribulations, encountered during life on the road as a Modern American Strigband, spill out in vivid detail on tracks like “Long Decline”, “Appalachian Girl” and “Solid Gone”. Wild-eyed, lightning fast tracks like “Reuben’s Train”, “Crossroads” and “Paradise Hop” place the band’s commanding technical prowess front-and-center, while a much more cerebral and introspective facet of the band’s songwriting shines through on tracks like “Save Me” and “Parse”.  Paradise Hop is a celebration of life in all of its glorious peaks and torturously painful valleys that leaves listeners with an acute sense of what it’s like to step into the beautifully twisted world of Pert Near Sandstone.

Ruben's Train

Outer Limits

In the last days of Rock' n' Roll's first wave, the Melbourne dance scene was ruled by instrumental bands. These rare tracks, recorded in 1964, demonstrate clearly that the Viscounts were among the best of the 'second tier' of local rock bands of the era. The Viscounts were. from left to right - Barry Johnston (Electric Bass), Lach Wilson (Tenor Sax), Geoff Sheldrake (Drums), Bill Pyman (Guitar) and Norm Holmes (Guitar, Tenor Sax and Banjo).

Outer Limits

The Viscounts 1964

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