Tarbox Ramblers | 
 enlarge
| Artist: Tarbox Ramblers
Label: Rounder Select
Category: Music
List Price: $16.98
Buy Used: $2.94
You Save: $14.04 (83%)
New (19) Used (20) from $2.94
Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 80351
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 682161905129
EAN: 0682161905129
ASIN: B00004S548
Release Date: April 25, 2000
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: Most orders shipped within 24 hours. All items include original artwork and packaging. We ship FIRST CLASS International/Domestic for single disc orders. Satisfaction Guaranteed!
| |
| Tracks:
| • | Jack of Diamonds - Tarbox Ramblers, Traditional | | • | Honey in the Rock | | • | Third Jinx Blues | | • | Columbus Stockade | | • | The Cuckoo | | • | Oh Death - Tarbox Ramblers, Traditional | | • | No Harm Blues | | • | St. James Infirmary - Tarbox Ramblers, Primrose, Joe | | • | Down South Blues - Tarbox Ramblers, Traditional | | • | Stewball | | • | Shake 'Em on Down | | • | Jug Band Music |
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com's Best of 2000
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 the muddiest of Delta blues; the dancing fiddle offers the appeal of string-band music; the rhythms add the buoyancy of jug-band booziness; and the whole band reinvigorates all of these classic styles with a decidedly modern energy and experimental edge. --Marc Greilsamer
Amazon.com
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 music's bluesy spirit reinforced by Michael Tarbox's unvarnished vocals and the slash of his slide guitar. Yet fiddler Daniel Kellar sounds like he was borrowed from a traditional string band, while the stand-up bass and stripped-down percussion recall the rhythms of skiffle or jug-band music. The Ramblers' dynamic blows the dust off standards such as "The Cuckoo," "St. James Infirmary" and "Stewball," but what's most encouraging for the band's future are a couple of atmospheric originals: "Third Jinx Blues" and "No Harm Blues." What the Pogues did for traditional Irish music, the Tarbox Ramblers could do for traditional American. --Don McLeese
|
| Customer Reviews:
 Magnificent April 29, 2006
no so-called "pen name" available (Boston, MA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
As ferocious, relentless, stomping blues records go, you can't do much better than this one. The question of whether it is or is not "authentic blues" is irrelevant: It's great music, which is what counts.
Around 1997 I used to go see these guys on Thursday nights at the Green Street Grille in Cambridge, MA. They were great: Like a freight train with no brakes. Absolutely riveting. They sounded like this record. It's a magnificent record. You should really buy it right now.
And as noted in other reviews, they own "St. James Infirmary".
 Tarbox Ramblers fertilize & aerate roots music March 13, 2004
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's unique vocal style, the arrangements--even the flavor of the production--all work together evoke the early days of pop music recording (without the dust and scratches) and bring new life to classics we should all be familiar with. Get the disc, go see these guys live. The experience is like a history lesson you can dance to. And stomp. And holler. Have a good time!
 Better live January 1, 2003
D. H. Richards (Silver Spring, MD USA)
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
Saw this band in Somerville Ma and with a few beers and friends they were awesome. I am afriad this is a case of a great live band just not translating well in the studio. The songs lack energy and sound emotionally flat.
A must see live but the disc is essential only for die hard fans
American Delta revisited July 25, 2001
Michael Ferreter (Chicago, IL United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Michael Tarbox and bandmates take decades-old songs and re-invent them with a new verse, or new tempo, or whatever they choose. The sound (gravelly vocal, bluesy guitar, upright bass, fiddle) feels like it was dredged up from the ooze of the Mississippi Delta. Keep in mind though, they are from Boston! The tunes sound familar, because its the sound of America in the 1920s and 1930s. A solid debut and a great, unique sound.
Incredible live show July 17, 2001
Jason (Northern Kentucky)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
When I tell people about the Tarbox Ramblers' unorthodox-sounding lineup (slide guitar, upright bass, fiddle, and inventive percussion), they're as incredulous as I first was when I saw them get up onstage. I've now seen the band twice in Newport, KY, and they get better each time I see them. This time, we made sure they came out for at least one more song (they were the opening act), and they returned to perform a blistering version of "Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down." While the CD is absolutely incredible (and, in my case, signed by the band), they need to be seen live to be fully appreciated. I'm heading down to hear them whenever they're in town.
|
|
|
