Musician and writer from Southeastern Ohio. Played and recorded with numerous bands including the Wailin' Elroys, Bram Riddlebarger & His Lonesome Band/Lonesome Self, the Redtails, the Dragline Brothers, the Heartlanders, Zeb Dewar & the Working Poor/the Hoover Administration, Seth Riddlebarger, 3 Speed Rusty, Woody Pines & the Lonesome Two, and Justin Gordon. Currently at work on a few novels. Written seven other books of poetry and fiction. The latest, a new poetry chapbook entitled "Chez Filthy", was published in April 2009 with JK Publishing.
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DISCOGRAPHY/BOOKS:
Bram Riddlebarger & The Wailin' Elroys
• On The Bum- 2007 (Rhythm Bomb Records- RBR 5657)
Bram Riddlebarger & His Lonesome Band
(S/T) EP- 2006 (Redtail Records- RTR 015)
• “The Detonation Combination”- 2006 (Redtail Records- RTR 014)
• "Attack Of the One Man Bands"-comp. 2007 (RockNRoll Purgatory- RRP 020)
Bram Riddlebarger
• “Back To You”- 2001 (Redtail Records- RTR 003)
• “Baptism Days”- 2003 (Redtail Records- RTR 007)
• “Sneeden’s Hotel”- 2005 (Redtail Records- RTR 012)
• Aquabearlegion.com, Volume 1- Online Compilation January 2005
Wailin’ Elroys
• “Wailin’ Elroys” EP- 2003 (Independent)
• “Cheap Motel” CD- 2003 (Independent)/2004 re-released on Rhythm Bomb Records (RBR 5619)
• “Perfect For Parties”-2004 (El Toro Records & Rhythm Bomb Records Highlight Album)
• “Live at the Blue Gator” CDR- 2004 (Redtail Records- RTR 010)
• “The Demo-Mite Sessions” CDR- 2004 (Redtail Records- RTR 011)
• Aquabearlegion.com, Volume 1- Online Compilation January 2005
• Smokin’ Shutdown 8- “Heroes, Art, Hot Rods, Kustom Kulture & Rock n Roll” DVD-2004
• Wailin’ Elroys/Ghostwriter- 7inch split vinyl record- 2005 (RockNRoll Purgatory- RRP 012)
• “Route 33” CD- 2005 (Rhythm Bomb Records- RBR 5642)
• “Hot Rodders Paradise” CD Sampler- 2006 (Rhythm Bomb Records- RBR 5635)
• “Outcasts of Sobriety: Punkabilly Blend” CD compilation- 2006 (RockNRoll Purgatory/Raucous Records- RRP 018)
• “On The Bum” CD- to be released May 2007 (Rhythm Bomb Records- RBR 5657)
• numerous other comps.
Dragline Brothers (formerly the Redtails)
• “The Redtails”- 2001 (Redtail Records- RTR 001)
• “The Dragline Brothers”(S/T)- 2006 (Non-Prophet Records)
Woody Pines
• "Woody Pines & the Lonesome Two" (2007)
BOOKS:
• Volatile Substance (1993-out of print)
• Poem 3AM (2000)
• Messages From The American Trashcan (2005)
• Southeastern Nowhere (2005)
• The Archetypal Apostolic Apocalypse: Apex Of An Anti-Movement (2006)
• The Way It All Must End (2006)
• Belly Up For Fun (2006)
• Chez Filthy (2009 JK Publishing)
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On our Kizmiaz rds CD compil.,you can find Decheman,King Automatic,Bud Mcmuffin, Urban Jr,reverend Beatman,Venus Fly Trap one girl band,Garage Kid,Mr Bonz, Feeling of Love,Sheriff Perkins,Miss Ipi,Wasted Pido,Mr Verdun,D66,Rotor Jambreks, Dead Elvis & Birds Are Alive rds. 17 tracks=13 unreleased ones,2 live ones:Urban Jr & Beatman,2 rare ones:Dead Elvis & Feeling of Love. The CD is a cardboard-box with a silk-screen painting sleeve+insert & an inside booklet with a 4 pages long drawing by Nicolas Moog(AKA Mr Verdun) on it. 666 limited & numeroted ed. We could not have done it in a better way!
Tomorrow I am going to pick my nose and wipe it on the clouds above Athens. Then I will bake the earth's population with a colossal burst of methane gas that will seal up the atmosphere like an enormous dutch oven. Stay tuned for that...