Born June 31, 1877 in Pahrump, West Virginia, Algernon Otmer Duvall began his musical career on the vaudeville stage as end-man in Lew Dockstader's Minstrels. He fought in a bicycle squadron in Ypres during World War I, where he received a crippling dose of the Hun's mustard. Returning home, he made ends meet working at a sausage factory in Harrington Delaware from 1921 until 1989. He took up the banjo in 1991 as physical therapy for his pleurisy.He went on to master the alto kazoo at the age of 118. "Al" Duvall attributes his remarkable longevity to a daily dram of Hamlin's Quinsy Balsam.

He plays his old time ditties for us on banjo, kazoo, guitar, musical saw, and a collection of spittoons, frying pans and medicine bottles. The music is a mixture of old-timey, ragtime, sea shanty, Victorian parlor and jug band.

Recorded on wax cylinders and other lo-fi devices, these songs were meant to be written between 1900 and 1930; He just never got around to it back then.