And bandleader Mark Rubin on the tenor National, tenor banjo, acoustic guitar, occasional 2nd fiddle & lead vocals.
Other friends show up and play from time to time like Joe Cordi on piano and Silas Lowe on Mandolin.
Influences
Anything ever recorded with twin fiddles and lap steel guitar.
Milton Brown, Jesse Ashlock, Floyd Tillman, Cliff Bruner, Ocie Stockard, Cecil Brower, Bob Dunn, Wanna Coffman, Tex Williams, Tommy Duncan, Bob Wills, Leon McAullife, Banjo Ikey Robinson, Tampa Red, Dallas String Band
Sounds Like
Milton Brown & his Musical Brownies, Cliff Bruner's Texas Wanderers, Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys, Adolph Hofner & the Pearl Wranglers, The High Flyers, The Tune Wranglers, The Light Crust Doughboys
We're a mostly acoustic, hot fiddle swing band with string bass, lap steel, guitar and tenor banjo accompaniment much like the pioneer bandleaders Milton Brown and his Musical Brownies, Cliff Bruner's Texas Wanderers and the Tune Wranglers.
Our repertoire comes, as it did back then, from old-time fiddle breakdowns, tin pan alley ballads, hot jazz foxtrots, gut bucket blues, minstrel show routines and the requisite waltz. We seem to play quite a few Floyd Tillman numbers as well.
I played "Ill Have Somebody Else"(-bonus track)on the newly GRAMMY nominated cd, Willie and the Wheel (Willie Nelson and AATW)!!!!!BRAND NEW SONGS UP TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and the band just got on reverbnation..check it out..www.reverbnation.com/therubyjaneshow
"Ticklin' The Strings" by Sweet Hollywaiians
Amazing Japanese hot string band playing 1920's, 30's, 40's style hawaiian, swing, calypso, blues, italian music and originals,featuring vintage instruments.3 songs with Robert Armstrong and Tony Marcus(from Robert Crumb and His Cheap Suit Serenaders)
"The Sweet Hollywaiians have probably the best feel for this 20's music of any string band working today. They manage the rare feat of sounding relaxed even when their playing is hot, are top notch musicians with tasteful arrangements and a full, rich, warm sound.Plus, they have a nice gamut of tunes, from King Nawahi to Giovanni Vicari to Bobby Leecan. See them live, if you can, for an unforgettable experience. If you can't, buy their Cds!" ~ Terry Zwigoff
Hey, Im posting new videos today! New pictures too!
And TUESDAY July 14, the band will be filming a performance for the tv show at SAXON PUB! Be in the audience for the tv show 4:30 to 6!!!!!!!! Ruby Jane
Hello, it's me, Ruby Jane. I am a 14 year old fiddler, songwriter. I have some songs posted that are fresh out of the studio..not mastered and pretty close to finished mixing. Let me know if you like the new songs..be one of the first to hear, even before they are released!Thanks! Ruby Jane
The folks at Violins Etc can take an average-to-poor sounding bass or violin and make it sound, well, a lot like the tracks on this site. check em out. And next time yer headed out for a Top Notch burger, to Buddy's Place or LaLA's, or anywhere down good old Burnet Rd., be sure to bring your stringed instrument for a tune-up at Violin's Etc.
Mark Rubin & his Ridgetop Syncopators
Hey, hope you are doing well......i've got a busy couple of months coming up. I'm touring the UK for the first time in June with Kevin Montgomery, and then right back to New York for a show at the Lincoln Center on the 29th with the Texas Playboys.
I hear my name is originally English.........."All-sup"-meaning everyone raise their glasses and drink up!!! It took me 75 years, but i'm finally making there.
Anyway, here is a video about the tour, and with some footage from last year in Crete at Songs in the Sun-Crete--you can see it on youtube here www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWCZkbJM3rg, or by going to my myspace.
Take care, and hope to see you soon.
Tommy
