Member Since: 4/2/2007
Band Website: dirtroadmolly.com and banjofrailer.com
Band Members: Mike Jarboe: fiddle, blues harp....
Sue Mead: fiddle, guitar....
Julie Duggan: clawhammer / frailing banjo.....
Jim Mead: guitar....
And various swell bass players (Thanks, guys! We love our bass players!)
Influences: Tommy Jarrell, Fred Cockerham, Bruce Greene, the Grateful Dead, Kilby Snow, the New Lost City Ramblers, a host of gospel performers, the Chicken Chokers, Clark Kessinger, Ernie Carpenter, Bruce Molsky, Jay Ungar, Molly Mason, Steve Arkin, J.P. Frailey, John Salyer, Jacques Lewin, Brian Sullivan, Richie Stearns, Judy Hyman, Rayna Gellert and Uncle Earl, Ray Alden, Ambrose Verdibello, etc., etc., etc....
Sounds Like: Appalachian string band music by a part-time garage band string band. Or something. We do a few jug band-type tunes and throw in a little Grateful Dead, some Wilson Pickett and a Patti Page tune.
Record Label: We have our own mini-studio.
Type of Label: None