The Ill-Mo Boys have been playing together since 1985. Laugh and Grow Fat is their first recording in ten years and their first CD. In gathering the material for this album, the Ill-Mos have, for the most part, stuck a little closer to their home in Missouri. There are some nice tunes learned from fiddlers from all four corners of the state and points in between. They’ve also done some excavating through piles of old records and come up with some fine and spirited old songs by some of the early greats of country music. We hope you will sit back, kick off your shoes, and join us Ill-Mo style…while we laugh and grow fat…
Curtis Buckhannon – mandolins, banjomandolin, harmonica, vocals; Jim Nelson – guitar, vocals; Geoff Seitz – fiddle, vocals
Vigortone 2001
- Gone Indian
- Tie Hacker #1
- Farmer’s Daughter
- Saddle Old Kate
- John Short’s Tune
- Nancy Jane
- Going Across the Sea
- Laugh and Grow Fat
- All Around the Mountain
- Salty River Reel
- Married Life Blues
- Duck Shoes Rag
- I’m Rollin’ On
- Echoes of the Ozarks
- Little White Lies
- In the Pines
- Bob Kings’ Tune
- Jawbone
- Handsome Molly
- Salt River
- Little Dutch Girl
- 9th of January
- Texas Ranger
- Shoot that Turkey Buzzard