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For their third album, Ten Mile Tide teamed up with bluegrass heroes and friends Don and Marty Lewis (the sons of Ralph Lewis of Bill Monroe fame) in a serene Rhode Island based studio called Lake West Recording. The 11 original tracks, forged on the road and played live long before they hit the studio, celebrate the band?s last two and a half years of constant touring (including over 350 shows). The 1966 GMC bus, affectionately named ?Old Skoggins,? depicted on the album cover, served as the band?s home for over a year. The bus is a fitting symbol for the emerging independent band and an album rich with the stories that fill this chapter of Ten Mile Tide?s history. Stories include island adventures with Lobster fisherman off the coast of Maine, all night ?picks? with hillbillies in north Carolina, a bar room brawl in Washington D.C., frat-house beer bong challenges in Illinois, eating competitions to fill the tedium of off-days (Peeps, a gallon of milk, Cadbury Cream eggs, hot sauce, anchovies, etc.), drinking games and all-night jams in Boston, touring with their friends The Clumsy Lovers (and then covering their van in caution tape), a broken bus heater in the Montana winter, opening for their heroes (Dispatch) at Stanford, smoking with the Wailers in South Carolina, fireworks in a Wal-Mart parking lot in Wisconsin, their bassist mis-diagnosed with a brain tumor, playing in front of 1500 people in Utah, playing for 4 people in Nashville, being paid in coke and chicken wings in Atlanta (and trading the coke for a beat-up mandolin), breaking a piston in Columbia, SC, playing breakout performances at High Sierra and Wakarusa in the summer of 2005, hitting the top of the charts in Manhattan, KS, getting robbed in Manhattan, NY, being busted by a border patrol in Arizona, getting sponsored by clothing companies, getting tattoos from a fan in Arkansas, stripping for a bachelorette party, dealing with angry cops at every hour of the morning, girls who joined tour on the spur of the moment, the fiddle player smashing his finger after margaritas on a Maine ferry, showers in the bus stairwell/kinkos-bathrooms/lakes/rivers/ditches/truckstops/Walmart bathrooms, and countless loves come and gone. The new album captures the spirit of all of it and the details of some.