Split Lip Rayfield

Editor's Review:

Dirty mountain folk alt-country. I can imagine a band that consists of acoustic guitar, mandolin, banjo and an apparently homemade, stand-up travel-case bass playing on a broken-down front porch in Oroville, or maybe at a county fair, complete with square dancing, or perhaps at The Blue Room. In true alt-country fashion, there are no drums here; the rhythm duties are shared by crisp acoustic strums and bass slaps. The band boasts simple hoe-down melodies and chorus group singing (that’s the country equivalent of hair metal gang vocals). And they rock like you wouldn’t believe. They sing of love and deceit, drinking, driving and the work-till-you-bleed ethic. Check them out when they hit The Blue Room on August 21^st with locals Robots Hate Cowboys…a fight just might break out.

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Record Label Bloodshot Records Released August 2001

Tracks Movin’ to Virginia Record Shop Never make it Home Thief Love Please Come Home Used to Call Me Baby PB22SS Kiss Of Death Drink Lotsa Whiskey Mister River It’s No Good Dime Store Cowboy Day the Train Jumped The Tracks