Member Since: 13/04/2008
Band Website: that would be this one
Band Members: Well, it's more of a consortium anymore, rather than a band...The original OPB was me, Lorna, and Max Parker, shortly joined by the great strat licks of my oldest buddy Jeff Green to float between Max and my acoustic guitars, and Lorna's sweet vocals. Three part harmony was the hallmark, I'll try to get some of that on the site. Fuzz Foster and Jim Mhoon joined us on bass and drums, and Dave "Doc" Ervin ..boards, squeezebox, and melodica...I'll try to get some of those tunes on the site as well.On the acoustic songs I've put online first, it's mainly me on Takamine acoustic and dobro, with Scott Thile, from the original Nickel Creek, on acoustic bass, and Clayton Campbell formerly of the Kentucky Opry on fiddle. On Someday Soon, it's all the original OPB'ers with Doc Ervin tickling the keys. Ozark Lullaby, which I wrote for Lorna when she "politely" told me I wasn't writing any SONGS for a female vocalist, and she was on her way over to Kentucky to rectify it, was written by the time she got here, and features Jeffrey Leon Green on lead, and the rock steady bass of Fuzz Foster, our Stax Records Museum representative at large.So it's a lot of wandering in and playing a little, which, I think, is still the way to pull it off.....
Influences: Bonnie Raitt, Ry Cooder, Joni Mitchell, Levon Helm and the Band, Kelly Joe Phelps, Lowell George, Little Feat, and Fred Tackett, the Ozark Mountains their own self, Stephen Stills, Leo Kottke, The Wild Tchoupitoulas ("gonna stomp some rump, I say hey now"), Dave Brubeck, Reggae proper, Whitewater creeks proper, the Little Red River, Fog, the Buffalo National River, Rocks, the Mulberry River, Jose's, Georges Majestic Lounge, the Swingin' Door, Arkansas, Oregon ,and anyone who plays, like they mean it...
Sounds Like: the eternal, ubiquitous question..."Hey, what kinda music do ya'll play..."