CD of Durango in fold out card case with lyric poster on Prima Records.

Durango is a career-defining release from the ever popular Coal Porters who are taking their Bluegrass inspired oeuvre to even wider horizons.


Let's Say Goodbye (Like We Said Hello)
No More Chains
Moonlight Midnight
I'm Not Going Away
One Is Way Too Many
Squeaky Wheel Gets The Oil
Pretty Polly
Like A Hurricane
Permanent Twilight
Roadkill Breakdown (Instrumental)
Lookin' For A Soft Place To Fall
Closing Time Genius
Sail Away, Ladies!

The album was produced by the legendary Ed Stasium, (Ramones, Phil Spector, The Smithereens, The Long Ryders, Gladys Knight, Mick Jagger, Jeff Healey) and recorded in Colorado USA April 2009 via the ‘Basement Tapes’ style with the musicians playing live and the band all looking at each other as they played…not a soul separated by glass or partitions.

Guest artists on the record are Peter Rowan, who sang and played guitar on his song “Moonlight Midnight”, and Tim O’Brien who played mandolin on “Roadkill Breakdown”.

Produced, engineered and mixed by Ed Stasium, Bayfield, Colorado USA

Neil Bob Herd: guitar, dobro, vocals
Sid Griffin: mandolin, harmonica, autoharp, vocals
Carly Frey: fiddle, vocals
Jeff Kazmierski: doghouse bass

Special guests-
Dick Smith: banjo, backing vocals
Tim O’Brien: mandolin solo on Roadkill Breakdown
Peter Rowan: vocals, guitar on Moonlight Midnight
Ed Stasium: backing vocals and brainwaves

No varmits or critters were harmed in the making of this album.