The band's latest CD is the result of a collaboration with CBS News chief Washington correspondent and Face the Nation anchor, Bob Schieffer.

The band claims classic honky tonk and western swing as major influences, including country music giants Johnny Cash and Bob Wills.

Quinn comes from a punk/classical background; She was a founding member of one of Washington DC's early punk/new wave bands, Tru Fax & the Insaniacs and she studied for more than a decade with the classical guitar pioneer Sophocles Papas.

Bass player Geff King, a prolific songwriter who wrote many of the songs on the group's earlier CDs, left the band in 2006.

In 2006, the band began working with Bob Schieffer, recording the album Road Kill Stew and Other News.