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Jawbone Railroad

About Me

Playing all your favorite hits from the 20's and 30's, Jawbone Railroad is a personal attack on the forces that would slick-up and corporate-ize acoustic music. Driven by the string-busting guitar and banjo work of Blaise Arsenault, the relentless bass anchor of Suzanne Ford, and the rustic mandolin musings of Walt Burns, the trio is developing a reputation for remaining surprisingly tight in the heat of battle--a perception that is no doubt aided by their efforts at obscure song selection. (So then you guys won't know when we get it wrong.)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 30/03/2007
Band Members: Walt Burns- mandolin, guitar, banjo uke, Suzanne Ford- bass, Blaise Arsenault- guitar, banjo
Influences: Foghorn Stringband, Cannon's Jug Stompers, Bo Carter, Mississippi Sheiks, Gid Tanner and the Skillet Lickers, bourbon, Jimi Hendrix, two-feet of fresh powder, native cutthroats, Bach, railroad baseball teams, Memphis Jug Band, The Leake County Revelers, Hollow Rock Stringband, Fuzzy Mountain Stringband, full-bodied amber ales, The Kentucky Ramblers, The Georgia Crackers, New Lost City Ramblers, The Monroe Brothers, Tommy Jarrell, R. Crumb, D.L. Menard, The Original Carter Family, Reeltime Travelers, The Horseflies, waking up in Montana
Sounds Like: Decent beer enjoyed on the tailgate of a '66 Chevy pickup at a fiddler's convention in a little town backed up against a sizeable range of mountains.
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Future gigs at Starky's

For anyone who missed the news, last Thursday morning a substantial gas leak in Boodles Restaurant in beautiful downtown Bozeman, resulted in a massive explosion. Five businesses were completely destr...
Posted by on Sun, 08 Mar 2009 16:35:00 GMT

Jawbone CD at Cactus and CDbaby

Just wanted to let everyone know that our new cd "Bear On Easy" is now available at Cactus Records and online at CDBaby. It will be up at iTunes any day now, as well. If you don't already have yoursel...
Posted by on Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:50:00 GMT

A little bit of polish, but not too much

Tomorrow the JBRR pulls into Basecamp studios for a go at an actual studio recording. That's right, the wacky pandemonium that is Jawbone Railroad without the usual screaming babies, barking dogs and ...
Posted by on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:16:00 GMT

Piggys all done

Well folks, you were probably as surprised as we were to find Bar3 shut their doors earlier this week. We want to thank them for the opportunity to play there every week for the past year. It was a go...
Posted by on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:12:00 GMT

Jawbone Railroad live on KGLT 91.9 FM on 5/19!

The band is going to be on KGLT Radio (91.9 FM Bozeman, 89.5 FM Livingstion, 98.1 FM Helena) tomorrow, May 19th, on the 9-12 Saturday morning bluegrass show from 11:00 to 11:45 with Rik James. All you...
Posted by on Fri, 18 May 2007 15:40:00 GMT