In the ten years that Ida Red have been playing Old-Time Music as a group, Polo Burgiere, Nadine Marinelli, John Herrmann and Meredith McIntosh have spent a lot of time together at Barbiere, Polo & Nadine's home in Southern France, and at John & Meredith's Asheville home in the Appalachian Mountains. All these times, without exception, have been fine times. They are a kind of family. Together they have consumed a ton of tofu and garlic and homemade bread. They find a harmony together that is broader than the music, but the music clearly embodies their collective "cave man" attitude. What they serve up here is certainly not "haute cuisine". Nor should it be taken for "mom's home cooking". It's not so full of sugar and fat. It's more raw. It's more like one round ripe Ida Red apple.