Tarbox Ramblers
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The Tarbox Ramblers are a musical group probably best labelled as
Adult Alternative or blues/folk revival; in the words of founder
Michael Tarbox, a "primitive blues and jug band". The original line-up
with Robbie Phillips (washtub bass), J. Place (harmonica), Mickey Bones
(drums, washboard and bones) and Michael Tarbox was formed in
Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1994.
The mid period group consisted of Tarbox (vocalist and guitarist),
Daniel Kellar (violinist), Johnny Sciascia (upright bass fiddle), and
Jon Cohan (drummer and percussionist). Since 2003 Nashville based
musician, Scott mcewen plays (upright bass fiddle) and (percussion)
with the Ramblers. Expressing the need to follow the musical traditions
of hillbilly music and Delta blues reinterpreted towards the modern
world, they have been compared to Wilco and Cassandra Wilson.
Originally a Cambridge-area bar band, the Tarbox Ramblers were
signed by Rounder Records in 1998, and their first album was released
in 2000. In summer 2001, Robert Plant contacted the group, to secure
them as his opening act for his Boston appearance, and was impressed
enough to ask them to continue touring with him. They made the BBC's
list of top CDs in 2002.
Tristram Lozaw, a reviewer from the Boston Herald, described the group as follows:
"If the Rolling Stones had happened 10 years earlier, hailed from
Memphis and been produced by Ike Turner, they might have sounded like
The Tarbox Ramblers. The way the Ramblers lay down their backroads grit
and raw hillbilly-rock jive, you're unlikely to hear a more genuine
blast of sandpaper rhythm and roots."
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