Released in 2014, Arsenal of Love is the debut album of The Duke Street Liberation Army Band, a group of aged hippies who have played music together since the early 1970s.  The songs are more than varied - everything from R&R, R&B, folky love songs, & social justice finger-pointers, to wild old - style European Rants, to Country & Eastern music, to Pirate Sea Shanties, Mythical Blues, Tin Pan Alley, to mysterious hymns and I-won't-lay-down-and-die anthems - all original songs & all gathered here. 

Greg Engle - songwriter, vocals, acoustic guitars, mandolin, dobro, ukulele & Irish bouzouki 
John Terlazzo - songwriter, vocals, nylon-string guitar, Indian harmonium & Egyptian tar 
Steve Seyler - songwriter, vocals & piano 
Beth Landis - vocals 
Michael Statler - harmonicas & vocals 
Ryck Kaiser - violin 
Bob Hoke - electric lead guitar, lap steel guitar 
Rick Terlazzo - organ 
Roy Frush - drums & percussion 
Roy Smith - bass, fretless bass 
Doug Smith - recording engineer, Techno-Fakir 
Featuring 
Harmonies by the Ditty Devine Eunuch Choir 
and the Ever-popular Android Sisters 
AND 
the Rhythmic Renderings of The Roys 
With 
Extra-Celestial (above & beyond the Call of Duty) contributions from the DSLA Overseas Reserves: 
Donna Lipman - additional harmonies on "How Much is Enough?" and 
Karen Johnson - cellos on "What Your Beauty Does"
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12 I Raise My Glass To Thee (by John Terrazzo and Steve Seyler)

Austin singer-songwriter Greg Engle, a career diplomat, has led a life of constant travel.  He’s witnessed attempted coups, had lunch with Nelson Mandela, and seen two African dictators fall.  Four songs on his debut album, Take It Personally (2010), provide colorful accounts of his many years in Africa.  He won first prize in the 2011 Woody Guthrie Folk Festival Songwriting Competition.

Engle is a founding member of the East Coast-based Duke Street Liberation Army Band, which released its debut album, Arsenal of Love, in 2014.

In partnership with veteran Austin musician and producer Stephen Doster, Engle has performed and conducted songwriting workshops in Swaziland (2012) and Lesotho (2015) as part of the U.S. State Department's Arts Envoy program.

Engle's songs have played on radio shows around the U.S.
