Things evolved, and to not be pinned to the somewhat UN-RIGHTEOUS Bluegrass Band name (now featuring forbidden drums), they stumbled on an old Folkways recording of this straw hat Kentucky hillbilly picker named Rufus Crisp. Crisp croaked in ’55 and SOMEHOW the band thought it “cool” to pay homage to this relatively obscure clanky folk character…so avoiding infringement, Rufus Krisp was their new name.
OMG, this 2-inch video tape of the bands 2 TV Specials
weighs 25 pounds!
Robert, Eric and Roger in one of the zillions of gigs the boys did zigzagging America with questionable routing.
Robert, Eric and Roger in one of the zillions of gigs the boys did zigzagging America with questionable routing.
Second Epoch of Rufus Krisp
Moses Swindler took this awesome promo shot in his olde timey tourist studio in Estes Park. He knew his stuff and he captured these guys so well. Jaime Kibben with a fiddle cause the piano wouldn’t fit, snazzy Robert Anderson and mando, dapper Spencer Bohren and bone, Kraig Kole and his spankin’ new washboard, “Col” Rob McLerran from the civil war front, and vested jug boy Eric Holle and his trusty 5-string.
Rufus Krisp Selects
HOGBACK COUNTRY — Eric Holle
FIRST BANJO PICKER ON THE MOON — Robert Anderson
How to pick just a few songs from this prolific group of writers. We start with a bluegrass breakdown Eric wrote and named after himself “Dakota Hogback” which he took from a Colorado front range geologic feature. Could become a bluegrass traditional classic, here with a very odd bluesy break midway. Careful it’s hot.
Such a VERY clever song that was actually heard by an astronaut who was one of only 12 humans to have walked on the moon — and while he does not play banjo, Charlie Duke “LOVED IT!!!”
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