Member Since: 31/01/2005
Band Website: http://www.dirtminers.com
Band Members: Raph Worrick plays guitars and sings, and makes the stuff up. Most of the time Ron Rost is abusing the organ and related instruments, but sometimes Wayne Reiss beats the piano, hard. Matt Rogalsky plays bass and all kinds of other stuff. Karen Ferguson Laundon wails on fiddle and accordion, and sings real nice too. Jeff Labossiere keeps everything together from behind the drumset; unless of course Pete Bowers or Russ Lawton is sitting back there.
Plus the odd surprise visitor now and then....
The Dirtminers play a bunch of barely functional old junk exclusively.
Some places we've played:VT:
Higher Ground, Red Square, Radio Bean, Great Falls Club, Town Hall Theater, Briggs Carriage, The Art House, Monkey House, Vergennes Opera House, Metronome, Long Trail Festival, Lake Champlain Maritime Festival, OC Octoberfest, Hyjinx Festival, Skinny Pancake, On The Rise, Langdon Street Cafe, Flying DiscONT:
The Grad Club, The Tranzac, Wolfe Island Grill, Paddy's PubPQ:
The Black Sheep Inn, Centre St. AmbroiseNY:
Lakeside Lounge, The Baggot Inn
Influences: "Immature artists imitate, mature artists steal."- Lionel Trilling
Sounds Like: TRex playing Gram Parsons. Tom Petty playing Elvis Costello. Brian Eno playing Frank Zappa. Gillian Welch playing Led Zeppelin. Slim Cessna playing Cat Stevens. Devo playing Warren Zevon. Morphine playing Graham Parker. Or was it the other way around?
Record Label: Animalville Records