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David Hildebrand remembers:
Ginger and I met Jeff down near the Annapolis waterfront sometime during the summer of 1981 or maybe `82. I don't recall the circumstances, but somehow we ended up in our apartment back in Eastport with Jeff and his ukulele settled in the middle of the floor - he belted out Back Creek Crab. Quite a scene, given the relative size and hairiness of man and instrument. It might even have been that evening right after when we said we were planning on doing an album and asked if we could record it.
I have some photos somewhere around here of that recording session, the best of which is that of a Yamaha concert grand piano with empty cans of beer lined up on the outer, curvy edge, as the lid was up. Somehow, through the course of doing multiple takes (this album wasn't multi-tracked), it was decided that at the very end of each run through the song we'd crack a beer near a mic after saying, together: "Put a feeler on a peeler!" Then pull the tab on the can, then everyone said "Uh-huuuh." It took quite a few takes. I really hope the owner of the new recording space never hears this story nor sees the picture.
Not long after, National Geographic was in town doing some sort of documentary about the Chesapeake Bay. It was arranged to use this recording of Jeff's song in a scene featuring some shirtless, barefoot boys skittering around a dock trying to elude some aggressive, snappy crabs.
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