Annotations by Michael Finnigan, 2011

Finnigan & Wood was a really terrific band with great vocals, great players, a lot of versatility, and tremendous energy. We were a very powerful live band, one of the best anywhere during our short time together.
These recordings represent where we were relatively early in that period. A few of these tunes later appeared on our Blue Thumb album, 'Crazed Hipsters,' but these renditions represent different performances, at a different time (usually in the early morning hours), in a different place, when it was just the band in the studio and Steve Barncard in the booth.

This is a high-fidelity recording of foghorns recorded near the Golden Gate Bridge. To aid in the safe travel of vessels as they pass under the Golden Gate Bridge, foghorns have been mounted on the Golden Gate Bridge since its opening in 1937.
United States Coast Guard, Waterways Management Branch sets the tones and timing pattern of the foghorns. Each foghorn has a different pitch and marine navigational charts give ships the frequency, or signature, of each foghorn.

The most recent effort of this lively quintet, now including New York based drummer Thomas Fujiwara.Michael Abraham continues to push the boundaries of genres. Reedmen Sylvain Carton and Mitch Marcus contribute challenging charts and solos and bassist George Ban Weiss holds the fort down with his never-miss bass drive.

... What's so special about these guys is their knack to push the envelope by going through journeys on each of the seven songs on their album. Mix up a bit of Medeski, Martin & Wood and Skerik with a Vernon Reid-type intensity and and you have one hell of a ride...

John Book, Music For America