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Plate 68 formed in 1994, from the remnants of the critically acclaimed acoustic trio, from Portland Maine known as Scarecrow Assembly. Centered on the words and music of Craig Patterson, with assistance from his Lumpy Tater cohorts Jeffrey Deason and Rob Morse, as well as an everchanging cast of other talented musicians; Plate 68 explores the wide array of musical options available to the eclectic and adventurous listener, in an unveiled attempt at avoiding the mundane.

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 Plate 68 - Viola Liuzzo and the Jim Crow blues
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banjo, vocals -Craig Patterson.
bohran, bass, harmonica-Jeff Deason.
saxophone-Myron Samuels
vocals-Karen Mason

I watched a documentary on this and decided I had to write a song about her. The whole story is much more complicated than I could possibly ever wish to entirely get into song so I stayed focused on the basics. The car full of K.K.K. assasins was also occupied by an undercover member of the FBI. Following Viola's death a smear campaign was launched against her by whites from the north and the south who apparently felt threatened by a white woman who was willing to stand up against racism.
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Viola Liuzzo was a white woman from the south, but she lived in Detroit with her husband and her five children. She drove her Olds them eight hundred miles from Detroit to Selma, to give rides to them who was marchin' for the cause. But the K.K.K. caught up with her somewhere's along highway eighty, black man by the name of Leroy Moton at her side, and they shot her in her car and left her to die.