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About Me

"Citico sends you back to a time when music was simpler, and honest. With Appalachian mountain flavor and true Tennessee charm, this trio will put a smile on your face and get your toes a tappin.' This is the real deal." - Michael Buffalo Smith, GRITZ Magazine --------------With their carefully crafted, heartfelt renditions, Citico must be making its forebears beam proudly through the heavens. - DIRTY LINEN MAGZINE -------------Citico has performed it's pre-bluegrass, old time style of traditional music at the 2004 Riverbend Festival, The Mountain Makin's Festival, Ocoee River Days, Laurel Theatre, and other venues in the Southeast. Most of Citico's songs are local to the Southeast Tennessee-North Georgia highlands and reflect the fiddle and banjo tunes, ballads, and blues that were heard around Chattanooga one hundred years ago.

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Music:

Member Since: 9/21/2005
Band Members: KEN PARR: fiddle, mandolin, banjo, voc MATT DOWNER: guitar, banjo, fiddle, kazoo, voc RON WILLIAMS: banjo, mandolin, slide, voc
Influences: Eldia Barbee, Lowe Stokes, Gid Tanner & The Skillet Lickers, pre-WWII "hillbilly" recordings of Southern Traditional Music, and Southern Blues and Jug Band music.
Sounds Like: 1925 - back in the hills and valleys of Southeast Tennessee and Northwest Georgia. Bourbon and Branch Water, 'shine and sawdust, sweat on the strings and rosin on the bow...
Record Label: ASP Records (Chattanooga TN)
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

sonny's place thursdays

hey folks- we hope you'll come out to Sonny's Place fine tex-mex eatery on Thursdays, have a taco, drink a beer and listen to the old-time sounds of Citico and the New Binkley Bros. best of all...
Posted by Citico on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:28:00 PST

New Video and New Songs right here at Citico

Goddam a bear! We've got a video posted here of Citico performing at this year's Riverbend Festival - playing Roughneck Blues. (for a video of Citico perfoming in a headbanger's heavy metal bar - mixu...
Posted by Citico on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 09:10:00 PST

live cd - caffeine show 12-9-05

hey hey - thanks to all who came out to the caffeine show on dec. 9. we now have the entire show available on cd as recorded that night live to a minidisc via a stereo microphone sitting o...
Posted by Citico on Mon, 19 Dec 2005 11:50:00 PST

Pine Breeze Recordings Reissued

From 1975 to 1981, Ron WIlliams (banjo) of Citico SB, field recorded traditional musicians from around Chattanooga with his students from Pine Breeze Center. 8 LPs were released of old time...
Posted by Citico on Sun, 25 Sep 2005 07:29:00 PST