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John Freeman: Acoustic Guitar/Vocals
John teaches English at University of Detroit Mercy. His foray into entertainment came when at sixteen he played the hooligan sailor in Mark Biddle's "Daguerreotype Sloop." Since then he has been playing guitar and singing in local punk and rock bands. He started The Codgers with his friends Steve Cousins and Matt Balcer over many whiskeys at O'Halloran's Tipperary Pub in West Detroit in 2006.
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Eric Mazurak: Bass Viol / Tinwhistle / Backing Vocals
By day, Eric is a network security engineer for Campbell-Ewald advertising. He spends his spare time wrenching and restoring his collection of vintage scooters, and partying with the Detroit scooter club, The Rovers SC. He's previously played bass in Cleveland Pop-punk favorites "Dreyfus", toured on guitar with the Cincinnati-based "the Magnets" ska / reggae act, andplayed bass with Windsor's famed Oi! Band "the Lager Lads". (all now defunct) He's a huge 60's rocksteady / reggae fan, and is excited about his upcoming wedding in Jamaica this summer.
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Matt Balcer: Mandolin / Harmonica
Matt is a Art Director for a local advertising company. He enjoys the wind in his hair and a song in his heart. In his earlier years, he was known for sweeping many an Irish Lass off her feet, but as the years have worn on, he's found himself cold and alone wondering where the time and his looks went. He reads nothing but Mad Magazine, claiming it to be the only true unpoluted forum of American Literature still remaining today. One time he rescued an injured bald eagle by sewing a flag into a makeshift sling for its broken wing. The result made headlines as the most patriotic image yet taken.
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Steve Cousins: Pushbutton Accordion / Backing Vocals
Steve wants there to be a manditory cowboy hat law on the books by next year's election, because he's so concerned about the sun's effect on people's scalps that he wants to protect them from damage. He's out there day and night, fighting for your right to have a head free of melanoma. I don't think you really appreciate how altruistic the guy is - there's nothing in this for him, ok? Sure, he's purchased a lot of stock in cowboy hat manufacturing facilities, but investing in emerging American companies is more of a hobby on the side.
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Tim Bradley: Banjo / Backing Vocals
Tim is a self-described "Huegenot", and is studying hard for his bar exam to be a big talkin' city lawyer, like his hero: disgraced Detroit city mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick. He's also working hard at his new hobby which he calls "post-modern manscaping", even authoring a new book on the subject to be published this spring. Vanity Fair magazine has called him the nation's top authority on sculpted eyebrows. He's not ashamed to admit his distaste for mustaches altogether, however, and will openly castigate people in public sporting one be it swarthy Greek man or his bewhiskered wife.
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