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A tale of woe and hardship: DOWN RIVER has existed for many years in various forms. The majority of these songs were written betwixt the years of 2000 and 2004. In 2002/03, after recording numerous lounge room jams, we properly recorded 40 minutes of music, ready to emerge from the endless gloom to a world in dire need of some old timey redneck devil rock...only to have the fates conspire against us. First we had a car crash on the way back from laying down the drum and basic rhythm tracks, and then we lost the lot due to a computer rebellion of Terminator II proportions by the hard-drive which had all our music stored on it. Undeterred, we knocked out the music on this disc in a vastly shorter period of time, as if possessed by a gibbering madness, the Colonel set about recording, mixing, mastering, compressing, making sure the octane levels were right, and now here it is, after numerous delays, and many events to test our faith ,we present this collection of songs. 2006 is the