ghosts of US primitive landscape; graveyard gospel, trance sounds, sweet melodies chronicling confusions in love. affectionate resonance of stringband. secret affiliation with english balladry, fascination with sinners for whom no god is enough. flat-affect chronicles recant lostness and chaos in the rural states. murder tales play a role.
band changes, road tolls souls. turning from backwater refrain: new strains unabashed brazen. shows with southern boys mcewen / bass, cosenza / drumkit. new thing! secret flourishing, voices multiply. songs: hymns and blues bidding goodbye adieu for now...
PRESS
ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "The Tarbox Ramblers go down into the deep reaches of their frontman’s collective American Gothic psyche, and dredge up the ghosts, the faded photographs, the myths and texts of a time that may never have existed in the popular consciousness… starkly beautiful textures that are drenched in sepia-toned images, and black and white newsreels from the focal point of the ravaged human heart... a slash and burn affair that holds its secrets close, and offers its dirty treasures abundantly."
THE WASHINGTON POST: “A sound that is at once reminiscent of the past yet wholly original... Their chemistry, akin to a force of nature, is undeniable... This is a band that demands to be seen again.”
THE NEW YORKER: “The band's debut album is filled with early-twentieth century blues and back-country music. Between the string bass, drums and slide guitar, you won't know what hit you.”
MOTHER JONES: "Grimy, thrilling noise"
ALL THINGS CONSIDERED: "Homemade rock 'n' roll with a dose of rattlesnake venom and gospel-drenched howling. The Tarbox Ramblers' second album delves even deeper into raw roots music than their first."
DISCOGRAPHY: Tarbox Ramblers, Rounder A Fix Back East, Rounder Four From The West (EP)
Sang the Satan mantra in Indiana WHILE playing slide guitar. Thank you Michael Tarbox you helped me find a happy place in the bible belt. Now come back to MA I want to learn Third Jinx Blues.
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