This Cambridge, Massachusetts-based foursome picked up some of the Delta's dirt and dark mystery when they traveled to Memphis to make this album, their second, with legendary Southern producer Jim Dickinson. Some tunes, like "The Shining Sun" and a...more.
On the surface, a modern quartet bringing old-time music into the next century isn't exactly cause for excitement. Yet there's a lot going on inside the music of the Tarbox Ramblers. The gritty guitar work brings to mind...more.
Where folk revivalists too often take a neutered, pedigreed approach, the Tarbox Ramblers prefer a mongrel mix with plenty of growl and bite. Much of the material on this Boston quartet's debut album comes from the Mississippi Delta, with the...more.
Michael Tarbox and his band, the Tarbox Ramblers, go to the very roots of rock and bring forth new green shoots from the many branches of early American music. Blues, Black Spirituals, Bluegrass, Honky Tonk. It's all in there. Tarbox...more.
I heard about the Tarbox Ramblers through word of mouth. Michael Tarbox and company have yet to make it out here to Arizona, so his band is relatively unknown outside his New England home base. That's too bad, because this...more.
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