Music
Release Date: September 15, 2020
Label: Wooden Door Records
Moonshine stills surrounded North Carolina Songwriter Rob McHale’s farm in days past, now just the remnants of this legacy of late night distilleries and deliveries remain. Famous moonshiners like Junior Johnson and Willie Clay Call (The Uncatchable) drove their products all over this Carolina region in the most popular moonshine vehicle, the ’40 Ford Coupe. The car could carry up to 200 gallons of this popular liquid known as white lightning, hooch, corn, etc. on the winding back roads and hills of North Carolina. Go for a ride in the ’40 Ford Coupe on night deliveries in this title track.
This album is an historical compilation of previously recorded and now remastered songs from some of Rob’s previous albums.
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Release Date: March 2018
Label: Wooden Door Records
“IMEA Folk Album of the Year 2019 ” – Recorded in the North Carolina mountains with producer Chris Rosser, ( Tom Dooley and Friends 2016 and Fields 2014 ) Rob and his band mates returned for a balanced album featuring social commentary, history and love. Massachusetts artists Mark Mandeville and Raianne Richards made contributions along with Rob’s brother Pat featured on the harmonica, and a few other musical friends.
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Release Date: May 2016
Label: Wooden Door Records
Tom Dooley & Friends is is a reflective look at Appalacian and Midwestern history created for our friends at Whippoorwill ( historic ) Village, Ferguson, N.C., home of the Tom Dooley Museum.
Whippoorwill Village
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Release Date: June 2014
Label: Wooden Door Records
Fields is about things we have lost and things we have found, a brush with history, home and family. The CD takes you through the Civil War without choosing sides. It let’s you reflect on the past through an honest and open window. Also included among its ten tracks are a brief foray into Irish history and reflective songs that focus on chances, family and the environment – with good wishes to close out the disc
Michael Kornfeld – Acoustic Music Scene
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Release Date: June 2010
Label: Wooden Door Records
Point of view Folk with an Americana feel and a touch of romance
” A socially conscious writer with intelligent lyrics ” Randy Walker WSGE 91.7 FM
“McHale’s guitar is huge, his vocal is even larger” Christopher Anderson, Victory Music, Seattle,WA