Crowhugger, the band was named after Canal Street in Buffalo, the former entertainment district where the Erie Canal met the Great Lakes. Canal Street was known by the sailors (some of whom had been around the world on seagoing vessels) in its day as "the wickedest street in the world" - a place "where vice unbridled ran its course."

Canal Street is long gone, but our first gigs were down at the Buffalo Waterfront within sight of its former location. Among many other things, we do some Erie Canal songs and also a piece from the C&O Canal in Washington ("Otho's Song", which can be heard on the website listed above).