Samples

Below is a small sampling of our work. Clicking on a title will bring up the sound clip.

Drowsy Maggie Productions:

Blue Sky (Julie Hirsh) - Julie Hirsh: vocals / John Mock: acoustic guitar, banjo / Kenny Vaughan: electric guitar / Robby Turner: pedal steel / Byron House: bass / John Gardner: drums / Produced by John Mock & Julie Hirsh

This Old House (Craig Bickhardt) - Craig Bickhardt: guitar & vocals / Janis Ian: background vocals / John Mock: cello arrangement / Carole Rabinowitz: cello / Byron House: bass / Produced by John Mock & Craig Bickhardt

If You Were Mine (Erin Thomas) - Erin Thomas: vocals / Lou Rubino: backing vocals / John Mock: guitars, mandolin, bodhran (percussion) / Stuart Duncan: fiddle / Byron House: bass / Produced by John Mock & Erin Thomas

The Butterfly (from the motion picture "Otherworld") - John Mock: guitar, tin whistle, concertina, percussion / Produced by John Mock

Who Needs A Hummer? (Thom Schuyler) - Thom Schuyler: guitar & vocals / Sam Levine: clarinet / Roy Agee: trombone / Russ Paul: banjo / Byron House: bass / John Gardner: drums / Produced by John Mock & Tom Schuyler

Take My Hand (Steven Young) - Steven Young: vocals / Vicki Hampton & Bob Bailey: backing vocals / John Mock: acoustic guitar / Kenny Vaughan electric guitar / Pat Coil: piano / Byron House: bass / John Gardner: drums / Produced by John Mock

Crossing the Heart (a motion picture by Steven Hood, starring Kris Kristofferson) - Conni Ellisor: composer, orchestrator, violinist / John Mock: classical guitar / Kenny Vaughan: electric guitar / Jeff Taylor: accordion / Danny O'Lannerghty: bass / Sam Bacco: percussion / Drowsy Maggie String Group / Produced by Conni Ellisor & John Mock

Wondrous Love (Conni Ellisor) - Conni Ellisor: composer, orchestrator, violin / Emily Taubl: cello / Drowsy Maggie String Group / Produced by John Mock & David Huntsinger

Marcie (Sylvia) - Sylvia Hutton: vocals / John Mock: guitars / Produced by John Mock & Sylvia Hutton

The Abbott's House (John Mock) - John Mock: composer, arranger, low whistle / Drowsy Maggie String Group / Produced by John Mock

The Keeper's Companion (John Mock) - John Mock: composer, arranger, guitar / Drowsy Maggie String Group / Produced by John Mock

The Fisherman & The Selkie (John Mock) - John Mock: composer, arranger, mandolin / Drowsy Maggie String Group / Produced by John Mock

John & Conni's work with other Artists:

Johnny Has Gone For a Soldier (James Taylor) - John Mock: tin whistle, low whistle

I Get Lost (Maura O'Connell) - John Mock: low tin whistle, guitar (fingerpicking part)

When You Are Old (Gretchen Peters) - Conni Ellisor: string arrangement

Ready To Run (Dixie Chicks) - John Mock: tin whistle, concertina, bodhran

Trouble In The Fields (Nanci Griffith & the London Symphony) - John Mock: arranger, orchestrator, tin whistle

Joan Of Arc (Darrell Scott w/ Emmylou Harris) - Conni Ellisor: string arrangement

Top Of The World (Dixie Chicks) - John Mock: string arrangement

Where've You Been (Kathy Mattea) - John Mock: guitar

Tuesday's Gone (Lynyrd Skynyrd - Live at Amsouth album) - Conni Ellisor: arranger, violinist

Blackberry Winter (Steve Seifert/The Nashville Chamber Orchestra) - Steve Seifert: dulcimer / Conni Ellisor: composer, orchestrator, violin

Heart Like A Sad Song (Trisha Yearwood) - Conni Ellisor: arranger, solo violin

What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life (Patrice Jegou) - Conni Ellisor: arranger, orchestrator

Ashoken Farewell (Jay Ungar/The Nashville Chamber Orchestra) - Conni Ellisor: arranger, orchestrator

Beloved Enemy (Gretchen Peters/The Nashville Chamber Orchestra) - Composer: Gretchen Peters & Conni Ellisor / orchestrator: Conni Ellisor

Inside Out (Conni Ellisor) - composed by Conni Ellisor & Steve Brewster / Chris McDonald: horn arrangement / Conni Ellisor: solo violin, piano

Dream Trilogy (Conni Ellisor) - Conni Ellisor: composer, orchestrator, violin, piano

We Three Kings (London Symphony) - Conni Ellisor: composer/arranger