Split Lip Rayfield

Split Lip Rayfield
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Styles: Alternative Country-Rock, Progressive Bluegrass, Americana, Alternative Country
Group Members: Jeff Eaton, Wayne Gottstine, Colin Mahoney, Eric Mardis, Kirk Rundstrom
Biography: The Kansas-based post-punk progressive bluegrass outfit Split Lip Rayfield was comprised of vocalist/banjoist David Lawrence, guitarist/dobroist Kirk Rundstrom, and one-string bassist Jeff Eaton, whose instrument was fashioned from the gas tank of a 1965 Ford. An outgrowth of the group Scroat Belly (though ...Read full biography
Never Make It Home
Released: 2001
Label: Bloodshot
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The high-speed, nearly reckless playing and themes of murder and booze are still there, but Never Make It Home also finds Split Lip Rayfield evolving to a more mature, complex approach that calls to mind ...Read full review
Should Have Seen It Coming
Released: 2004
Label: Bloodshot
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Once you get past the fact that bassist Jeff Eaton's instrument was once the gas tank from a pickup truck, these days Split Lip Rayfield aren't particularly far removed from what an ordinary bluegrass ...Read full review
More Split Lip Rayfield albums: Main Albums (8)
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