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The Electric Rag Band

About Me

The Electric Rag Band is a guitar driven rock band that draws on many styles of American music of the last 100 years. Blues, Ragtime, Rockabilly, Hillbilly, Punk and everything in between. They play hard and they engage the crowd. The song structures and the playing are a bit more complex than your average modern rock band. They don't fit easily into any established genre. They are never boring or formula. The band is currently working on their forth CD due out this summer.

Influences range from country blues artists like Blind Willie McTell and Big Bill Broonzy to newer acts like The Reverend Horton Heat and The Gourds.

They have opened for:
Johnny Winter
Billy Joe Shaver
The Derailers
The Paladins
Split Lip Rayfield
Junior Brown
Bugs Henderson
Dale Watson
Deke Dickerson
Hot Club of Cowtown
Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band
Little Charlie and the Nightcats
Charlie Musslewhite
Southern Culture on the Skids
Th' Legendary Shack Shakers
Dash Rip Rock
Kim Lenz and her Jaguars
Charles Brown
Luther Junior Johnson
Nick Curran
Scott Biram

Discography:
The Electric Rag Band -- 1996
Too Tight -- 1998
...finest ingredients -- 2001
New CD due in the summer of 2009
...finest ingredients charted on the American Freeform Roots Chart -- Third Coast Music
Radio play on Roots Radio programs all over the world.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/9/2006
Band Website: www.ragband.com
Band Members:

Pat Cook -- Guitar, Slide Guitar, Banjo, Vocals

Shane Stewart -- Bass, Vocals, Harmonica, Drums

Daniel Cook -- Drums, Guitar

Sara Bowersock -- Guitar, Banjo

Karen Harmon -- Fiddle


Influences: Blind Willie McTell, Big Bill Broonzy, Blind Blake, Roy Smeck, Blind Boy Fuller, Robert Johnson,Lonnie Johnson, Reverend Gary Davis, Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Williams, Carl Perkins, The Texas Playboys and Bob Wills, Uncle Dave Macon, The Holy Modal Rounders, Woody Guthrie, Doc Watson, Chuck Berry, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Band, Hot Tuna, Dick Dale, The Ventures, Split Lip Rayfield, The Gourds, The Squirrel Nut Zippers, The Old 97s, Old Crow Medicine Show, The Bad Livers, The Asylum Street Spankers, The Stray Cats, The Paladins, Preacher Boy, Th’ Legendary Shack Shakers, Southern Culture on the Skids, The Reverend Horton Heat, Junior Brown, Uncle Tupelo, Son Volt, Wilco, Gillian Welch (and Dave Rawlings), Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams, Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Little Walter, Elmore James, Scott Joplin, and most everything else we ever listened to (if they sing and play melodies that are in tune and have a decent sense of timing).
Sounds Like: Lots of stuff, but not like most stuff.
Record Label: ERB Records
Type of Label: Indie

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