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It would be way too simple to call Dry Branch Fire Squad a bluegrass band. They play bluegrass, certainly, but they infuse it with mountain gospel harmonies and an intimate knowledge of Appalachian folk melodies until it would seem to be something else again, a sort of natural extension of the old-time string bands, not slick and showy like most contemporary bluegrass, but rustic and creaky and perfectly executed for believability rather than speed. But that's not all. Frontman and multi-instrumentalist Ron Thomason's amazing and hilarious song introductions, which range over all manner of political, social, and cultural themes in his disarming hillbilly accent, make DBFS a kind of cross between a hot string band and Alan Lomax doing standup comedy while an ethnomusicologist does sly commentary on the side. Thomason's fractured monologues are so alluring that the songs they introduce, which are brilliantly played and impeccably selected, seem almost like commercials when they finally appear. Dry Branch Fire Squad simply has to be heard live to be fully appreciated, which is why this two-disc concert set is the perfect place to sample this one of a kind band. Thomason here is wry, subtle, charming, and wickedly funny as he skewers big government, rural perceptions, uptown folk music, and all manner of other targets, while the songs themselves, which include three written by Gillian Welch ("Orphan Child," "Miner's Refrain," "By the Mark"), a Merle Haggard standard ("Lonesome Fugitive"), and a Grayson & Whitter classic ("He's Coming to Us Dead"), are given stellar performances that border on definitive. If Comedy Central and the Smithsonian got together to sponsor a traveling old-time music show, that show would sound something like Dry Branch Fire Squad, a truly unique American band.
© Steve Leggett /TiVo
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Carter Stanley, ComposerLyricist - Eric Bickel, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - DAN RUSSELL, Banjo, AssociatedPerformer - Ken Irwin, Producer, Recording Producer - Dry Branch Fire Squad, MainArtist - Ron Thomason, Mandolin, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Andy Edelstein, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Toby Mountain, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Charles Leet, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Mary Jo Leet, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Adam McIntosh, Guitar, Tenor, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2002 Rounder Records
DAN RUSSELL, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Ken Irwin, Producer - Dry Branch Fire Squad, MainArtist - Ron Thomason, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Charles Leet, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Mary Jo Leet, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Adam McIntosh, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2005 Rounder Records
Gillian Welch, ComposerLyricist - DAN RUSSELL, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Ken Irwin, Producer - Dry Branch Fire Squad, MainArtist - Ron Thomason, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Charles Leet, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Mary Jo Leet, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Adam McIntosh, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2005 Rounder Records
DAN RUSSELL, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Ken Irwin, Producer - Dry Branch Fire Squad, MainArtist - Ron Thomason, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Charles Leet, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Mary Jo Leet, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Adam McIntosh, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2005 Rounder Records
Bill Monroe, ComposerLyricist - DAN RUSSELL, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Ken Irwin, Producer - Dry Branch Fire Squad, MainArtist - Ron Thomason, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Charles Leet, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Mary Jo Leet, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Adam McIntosh, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2005 Rounder Records
DAN RUSSELL, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Ken Irwin, Producer - Dry Branch Fire Squad, MainArtist - Ron Thomason, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Charles Leet, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Mary Jo Leet, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Adam McIntosh, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2005 Rounder Records
DAN RUSSELL, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Ken Irwin, Producer - Dry Branch Fire Squad, MainArtist - G.B. Grayson, ComposerLyricist - Henry Whitter, ComposerLyricist - Ron Thomason, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Charles Leet, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Mary Jo Leet, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Adam McIntosh, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2005 Rounder Records
DAN RUSSELL, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Ken Irwin, Producer - Dry Branch Fire Squad, MainArtist - Ron Thomason, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Charles Leet, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Mary Jo Leet, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Adam McIntosh, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2005 Rounder Records
Gillian Welch, ComposerLyricist - David Rawlings, ComposerLyricist - DAN RUSSELL, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Ken Irwin, Producer - Dry Branch Fire Squad, MainArtist - Ron Thomason, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Charles Leet, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Mary Jo Leet, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Adam McIntosh, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2005 Rounder Records
DAN RUSSELL, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Ken Irwin, Producer - Dry Branch Fire Squad, MainArtist - Ron Thomason, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Charles Leet, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Mary Jo Leet, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Adam McIntosh, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2005 Rounder Records
DAN RUSSELL, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Ken Irwin, Producer - Dry Branch Fire Squad, MainArtist - Alvin Pleasant Delaney Carter, ComposerLyricist - Ron Thomason, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Charles Leet, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Mary Jo Leet, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Adam McIntosh, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2005 Rounder Records
DAN RUSSELL, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Ken Irwin, Producer - Dry Branch Fire Squad, MainArtist - Ron Thomason, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Charles Leet, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Mary Jo Leet, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Adam McIntosh, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2005 Rounder Records
Bruce Phillips, ComposerLyricist - Eric Bickel, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - DAN RUSSELL, Banjo, AssociatedPerformer - Ken Irwin, Producer, Recording Producer - Dry Branch Fire Squad, MainArtist - Ron Thomason, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Andy Edelstein, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Toby Mountain, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Charles Leet, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Mary Jo Leet, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Adam McIntosh, Mandolin, Tenor, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2002 Rounder Records
DAN RUSSELL, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Ken Irwin, Producer - Dry Branch Fire Squad, MainArtist - Ron Thomason, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Charles Leet, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Mary Jo Leet, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Adam McIntosh, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2005 Rounder Records
Traditional, ComposerLyricist - DAN RUSSELL, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Ken Irwin, Producer - Dry Branch Fire Squad, MainArtist - Ron Thomason, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Charles Leet, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Mary Jo Leet, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Adam McIntosh, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2005 Rounder Records
DISC 2
Traditional, ComposerLyricist - DAN RUSSELL, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Ken Irwin, Producer - Dry Branch Fire Squad, MainArtist - Ron Thomason, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Charles Leet, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Mary Jo Leet, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Adam McIntosh, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2005 Rounder Records
DAN RUSSELL, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Ken Irwin, Producer - Dry Branch Fire Squad, MainArtist - Ron Thomason, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Charles Leet, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Mary Jo Leet, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Adam McIntosh, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2005 Rounder Records
Gillian Welch, ComposerLyricist - David Rawlings, ComposerLyricist - DAN RUSSELL, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Ken Irwin, Producer - Dry Branch Fire Squad, MainArtist - Ron Thomason, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Charles Leet, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Mary Jo Leet, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Adam McIntosh, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2005 Rounder Records
DAN RUSSELL, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Ken Irwin, Producer - Dry Branch Fire Squad, MainArtist - Ron Thomason, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Charles Leet, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Mary Jo Leet, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Adam McIntosh, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2005 Rounder Records
Bill Monroe, ComposerLyricist - DAN RUSSELL, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Ken Irwin, Producer - Dry Branch Fire Squad, MainArtist - Ron Thomason, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Charles Leet, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Mary Jo Leet, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Adam McIntosh, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2005 Rounder Records
DAN RUSSELL, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Ken Irwin, Producer - Dry Branch Fire Squad, MainArtist - Ron Thomason, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Charles Leet, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Mary Jo Leet, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Adam McIntosh, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2005 Rounder Records
DAN RUSSELL, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Ken Irwin, Producer - Dry Branch Fire Squad, MainArtist - Elizabeth Anderson, ComposerLyricist - Clarence Anderson, ComposerLyricist - Ron Thomason, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Charles Leet, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Mary Jo Leet, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Adam McIntosh, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2005 Rounder Records
DAN RUSSELL, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Ken Irwin, Producer - Dry Branch Fire Squad, MainArtist - Ron Thomason, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Charles Leet, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Mary Jo Leet, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Adam McIntosh, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2005 Rounder Records
Traditional, ComposerLyricist - DAN RUSSELL, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Ken Irwin, Producer - Dry Branch Fire Squad, MainArtist - Ron Thomason, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Charles Leet, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Mary Jo Leet, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Adam McIntosh, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2005 Rounder Records
DAN RUSSELL, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Ken Irwin, Producer - Dry Branch Fire Squad, MainArtist - Ron Thomason, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Charles Leet, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Mary Jo Leet, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Adam McIntosh, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2005 Rounder Records
DAN RUSSELL, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Ken Irwin, Producer - Dry Branch Fire Squad, MainArtist - Ron Thomason, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - H.W. VanHoose, ComposerLyricist - Charles Leet, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Mary Jo Leet, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Adam McIntosh, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2005 Rounder Records
DAN RUSSELL, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Ken Irwin, Producer - Dry Branch Fire Squad, MainArtist - Ron Thomason, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Charles Leet, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Mary Jo Leet, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Adam McIntosh, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2005 Rounder Records
Bill Monroe, ComposerLyricist - DAN RUSSELL, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Ken Irwin, Producer - Dry Branch Fire Squad, MainArtist - Ron Thomason, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Charles Leet, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Mary Jo Leet, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Adam McIntosh, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2005 Rounder Records
Album review
It would be way too simple to call Dry Branch Fire Squad a bluegrass band. They play bluegrass, certainly, but they infuse it with mountain gospel harmonies and an intimate knowledge of Appalachian folk melodies until it would seem to be something else again, a sort of natural extension of the old-time string bands, not slick and showy like most contemporary bluegrass, but rustic and creaky and perfectly executed for believability rather than speed. But that's not all. Frontman and multi-instrumentalist Ron Thomason's amazing and hilarious song introductions, which range over all manner of political, social, and cultural themes in his disarming hillbilly accent, make DBFS a kind of cross between a hot string band and Alan Lomax doing standup comedy while an ethnomusicologist does sly commentary on the side. Thomason's fractured monologues are so alluring that the songs they introduce, which are brilliantly played and impeccably selected, seem almost like commercials when they finally appear. Dry Branch Fire Squad simply has to be heard live to be fully appreciated, which is why this two-disc concert set is the perfect place to sample this one of a kind band. Thomason here is wry, subtle, charming, and wickedly funny as he skewers big government, rural perceptions, uptown folk music, and all manner of other targets, while the songs themselves, which include three written by Gillian Welch ("Orphan Child," "Miner's Refrain," "By the Mark"), a Merle Haggard standard ("Lonesome Fugitive"), and a Grayson & Whitter classic ("He's Coming to Us Dead"), are given stellar performances that border on definitive. If Comedy Central and the Smithsonian got together to sponsor a traveling old-time music show, that show would sound something like Dry Branch Fire Squad, a truly unique American band.
© Steve Leggett /TiVo
About the album
- 2 disc(s) - 28 track(s)
- Total length: 01:27:35
- Main artists: Dry Branch Fire Squad
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Rounder Records
- Genre: Blues/Country/Folk Country
© 2005 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc. ℗ 2005 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
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