Biographical notes.

Timothy Walker, a native of Great Britain, arrived in Canada in 1957. He worked in the seismic exploration field in Alberta before coming to the USA to study at Berkeley and, later, at Montana State University. From there he went on the road with his guitar, arriving in Aspen, Colorado where he became a ski enthusiast, Rugby player (he helped found the Aspen Rugby Club, celebrating their 40^th anniversary in September 2007), dog catcher, welder, marble sculptor, lineman, and tombstone installer to support his calling as a performer.

In Aspen he played music at the notorious "Red Onion" and other venues, where he often found himself sharing the stage with such folk music icons as John Denver, Linda Ronstadt, Judy  Collins, and Rosalee Sorrels.  He formed the enduring Sadie Green Sales Jugband after a string of temporarily successful bands—The Mountain Dew Jugband, The Piltdown Philharmonic Jug Band, and The Doctor’s Own Medicine Show And Marching Band, to name a few. In 1976 the Sadie Green Sales Jugband relocated to Tioga County, where Timothy and David and their respective families still reside.

David Driskell began clarinet lessons at age 9 in San Diego, California. When the family moved to Cincinnati, he studied music in the schools and performed throughout high school, both in competitions and in school musicals. As a teenager, he attended Aspen Music Festival’s summer camp for two years, studying under Earl Bates. As a high school senior, he attended Interlochin Arts Academy in Michigan. After high school he enrolled at Berklee School of Music in Boston, where he was inspired by Roland Kirk’s ability to play three saxophones simultaneously—a skill that David has since developed with clarinets.

        Spending only a semester at Berklee, he then traveled to Italy to work on clarinet and saxophone technique before enrolling at the University of Colorado to major in clarinet performance. By the time he was 21, he had joined Timothy in Aspen to form Sadie Green Sales. For the next few years the band, then comprised of three members, traveled across the country from Denver to L.A., Minneapolis to Huston, Kansas to St Louis to Chicago to Indianapolis to Pennsylvania and Florida.

 After moving to Pennsylvania, David apprenticed to learn piano tuning because he couldn’t stand to play music with out of tune pianos. As audiences soon discover, David is proficient on many instruments, including Bb and Eb clarinet, tenor sax, flute, penny whistle, tenor banjo, harmonica, washboard, musical saw, and slide whistle.