Quartet Fresh from Trips to Idaho & Colorado

Austin, TX -- MilkDrive, the Austin alt-folk-progressive acoustic string band, has released its latest CD, a live album that captures the band's soulful, textural, multi-layer mix of rhythms, tempos, flavors, downbeats and improvisation; with fingers flying at "unbelievable" speed, original tunes that go beyond extraordinary and "impeccable" arrangements.

Scheduled is an Austin CD Release Show: 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 7, at Fiddler's Green Music Shop, 1809 W. 35th St. Cover is $10; information: www.fiddlersgreenmusicshop.com.

As MILKDRIVE LIVE '09 was independently released in mid-June, the quartet was in the midst of over a week's worth of performances in local clubs in Idaho and at the National Oldtime Fiddlers' Contest and Festival in Weiser, where three members met and two competed as kids 

Principal songwriter-multi-instrumentalist Noah Jeffries grew up playing bluegrass and gospel in Idaho and started writing amazing tunes at  the age of 14. He eventually got to Austin and joined up with fiddling champion-mandolin player Dennis Ludiker, a member of South Austin Jug Band that Jeffries had met long ago at the Idaho competition -- as well as Brian Beken, fiddler for South Austin Jug Band and The Gougers and a multi-instrumentalist himself; and swing/jazz bass player Matt Mefford.

For more information, see http://www.milkdrive.goingplacesmusic.com and http://www.myspace.com/milkdrive