Tarbox Ramblers


The Tarbox Ramblers are a musical group probably best labeled as adult alternative or blues/folk revival; in the words of founder Michael Tarbox, a "primitive blues and jug band". The original line-up with Robbie Phillips, J. Place, Mickey Bones and Michael Tarbox was formed in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1994.
The mid period group consisted of Tarbox, Daniel Kellar, Johnny Sciascia, and Jon Cohan. Since 2003 Nashville based musician, Scott McEwen plays with the Ramblers. Rob Hulsman joined in 2003 and toured and recorded with the band through 2005. Expressing the need to follow the musical traditions of hillbilly music and Delta blues reinterpreted towards the modern world, they have been compared to Wilco and Cassandra Wilson.
Originally a Cambridge-area bar band, the Tarbox Ramblers were signed by Rounder Records in 1998; their eponymous debut album was released in 2000. In summer 2001, Robert Plant contacted the group, to secure them as his opening act for his Boston appearance, and was impressed enough to ask them to continue touring with him. They made the BBC's list of top CDs in 2002.
Tristram Lozaw, a reviewer from the Boston Herald, described the group as follows:

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