Jazz Articles about Tarbox Ramblers

Tarbox Ramblers: Tarbox Ramblers

by Ed Kopp
June 1, 2000

The Tarbox Ramblers’ music so strongly evokes the rural South, it’s hard to believe these guys hail from Boston. The Ramblers are a primitive Americana outfit with deep blues roots. On this rustic-sounding debut, the Ramblers generate an aural trail mix consisting of old-time country blues, traditional obscurities, a jug band stomper, some spirituals, and two scruffy originals.With fiddle, upright bass, crude drums and percussion, electric slide and various other guitars, the group takes elements from country blues, ...