Electric Rag Band "...Finest Ingredients"
The Electric Rag Band is a guitar driven rock band that draws on many styles of American music of the last 100 years. Blues, Ragtime, Rockabilly, Hillbilly, Punk and everything in between. They play hard and they engage the crowd. The song structures and the playing are a bit more complex than your average modern rock band. They don't fit easily into any established genre. They are never boring or formula. Their new CD, "The Esoteric Ramblings of" was released February 12.
Influences range from country blues artists like Blind Willie McTell and Big Bill Broonzy to newer acts like The Reverend Horton Heat, The Gourds, and the Black Keys.
The tunes are more complex than any three-chord rock ditty, and they combine a rich mix of blues, Americana, rockabilly, ragtime, country, folk and straight-up rock 'n' roll.
- Tulsa World
ERB's intoxicating blend of sounds is fermented in the history of all American music, from Piedmont blues (also called East Coast blues) to punk rock. It's drinking music. It's dancing music. It's thinking music.
- Tulsa World
"The Electric Rag Band is the coolest band I've heard come through these parts in a long, long time."
- Colorado Springs Independent
"For those of you like me, that really appreciate the roots - I mean the old original versions of old old tunes that really have paved the way for everything in '96, this is an entire album of those great old tunes, by people like Lonnie Johnson, Blind Blake, Blind Boy Fuller, Kokomo Arnold, and others .... The Electric Rag Band - that belongs in your collection."
- John Henry -- KMOD's Smokehouse Blues Show
"Cook's vocals are suitably rough and ragged, and his guitar work is solid and sure handed, up-to-date with just a whiff of the old-timey."
- John Wooley -- The Tulsa World
"At last a new, original approach to the Blues!
- Joe Brennen -- OBS Back Beat
"This is a pleasing eye-opener for those who think blues has to be loud and
electric. Recommended.
- Chicago Kerry -- The TBC Blue Notes
".. an enthusiastic dive into this project may be educational and rewarding."
- Chad Bonham -- Urban Tulsa
"It's highly academic and fascinating."
- Thomas Conner -- Tulsa World