Long-time Freight favorites, Mitch Greenhill and Mayne Smith join two streams of American traditional music. Mitch began his career in Harvard Square’s coffee houses, focusing on blues and other African American guitar styles. Mayne’s home is in the Bay Area, where he developed his spine-tingling Anglo American country-style singing, as well as his dobro and pedal steel guitar technique. Over the years the duo has released two albums, Storm Coming (1979) and Back Where We’ve Never Been (1985).

Tonight, Mitch and Mayne revisit tradition and introduce originals with their trademark tight vocal harmonies and hot licks, delivering a wide range of material from mountain tunes to acoustic swing instrumentals in a style described by San Francisco Chronicle writer Phil Elwood as “vernacular music, the real American popular music that comes out of the people, out of the performer, not off the printed score or dial spinning record producer.”

Guitarist and vocalist Peter Spelman joins the duo, bringing an added dimension of musical virtuosity to the music. Peter is familiar to many from his years as a successful San Francisco club musician and for his work with Mitch in the group Flight Path.