The CasHank Hootenanny Jamboree at Buttermilk, last Thursday of every month



	Alex Battles presents... The CasHank Hootenanny Jamboree a monthly sing-strum-and-stomp-along dedicated to the music of Hank Williams, Johnny Cash & much more.
	BEST OF NYC BEST HOOTENANNY SERIES		CRITIC'S PICK

the last Thursday of every month
July 2004 - September 2009
@ Buttermilk in Brooklyn, NY

October 27, 2009

Dear friends,

After five great years, The CasHank Hootenanny Jamboree has come to an end. I'm sure we'll be back for visits at some time, but now it's time to go.

Thank you for all your love and support over the years. Special thanks to Andrew for helping me run it for the past two or three years. Thanks also to Gary, Jason, Vince, Forbes, Scotty, Alan, and Buttermilk.

I'll see you all further on down the trail.

Sincerely,

Alex Battles
Founder and Owner of The CasHank Hootenanny Jamboree

New York Magazine: Critic's Pick Highfalutin country-music fans will rejoice at this monthly jamboree where Johnny Cash and Hank Williams are the stars of the playlist. A stringent four-chord rule holds sway so joining the session can be as simple as singing/playing from your seat, or if you're a more seasoned instrumentalist, jumping onstage behind host Alex Battle. It all adds up to a convivial blur of expert fiddlers, plucky pluckers, and amateur crooners reprising "Ring of Fire" or "On the Road Again." Should you feel compelled to request something other than Cash or Hank, please stick to old standbys like "You Are My Sunshine" lest you be run outta town.

— Lindsey Weber, New York Magazine, Critic's Pick

The Village Voice, Best of NYC, Best Hootenanny Series: The last Thursday of every month, Buttermilk hosts the CASHANK HOOTENANNY JAMBOREE, "an acoustic classic country jam" where everyone is invited to play country songs from before 1970, preferably written by Hank Williams or Johnny Cash. Songs must contain four chords or less, so eager locals, filling the room with their banjos, fiddles, washboards, and tambourines, can follow along. The rowdy strumming, along with a pitcher of Yuengling, is enough to soothe a cowboy's heartache.

-Lori Cole, The Village Voice, Best of NYC 2005

They came from... well, I don't know where the hell they all came from, but they showed up--guitars, basses, banjos, fiddles, and mandolins in hand--with one purpose in mind: to sit around, have a few drinks, and bang out songs by two legends who need no last-name introduction: Johnny and Hank.

The CasHank Hootenanny Jamboree, held monthly in the platformed corner of Park Slope's Buttermilk Bar, is the brainchild of Alex Battles, who, after visiting several local old-time jams, "got tired of not knowing any of the songs." His solution: to create an open acoustic-jam gathering comprised entirely of "new" old standards--mainly, the songs of Johnny Cash and Hank Williams. That doesn't mean the rules are strict: more than one player (myself included) did other people's songs that Johnny covered.

Like all good impromptu jams, the event was light on precision and heavy on passion. There's a certain sloppy magic to watching a group of musical strangers frowning at each other, trying to figure out chord changes, only to fall suddenly into smiling, harmonious sync.

-Uncle Leon, Brooklyn Country