Scroggin is a band of four friends featuring Chris Harris-Pascal on vocals, banjo and guitar, Tom Rowell on vocals, bass and mandolin, James Allen on guitar and dobro, and Dylan Slater on acoustic and electric guitar and mandolin. Blending bluegrass, country, folk and western swing they have been entertaining audiences (and upsetting bluegrass purists!) with their energetic live show for the last few years, including appearances at The National Folk Festival.

 

With ‘Scroggin 2 - In the Key of A’ the band sought to record some of their favourite originals, Manly Song, Warburton and Nathan Lions, a country song discrediting hegemonic masculinity, a ballad telling the story of the Victorian town Warburton, and a folk-rock number about binge-drinking respectively, throwing in the bluegrass standard Salt Creek for good measure. Quite coincidentally all the tunes ended up being in the key of A and thus the EP named itself.