Artist: Split Lip Rayfield: mp3 download Genre(s): Other Discography: Should Have Seen It Coming Year: 2004 Tracks: 16 Never Make It Home Year: 2001 Tracks: 14 In The Mud Year: 1999 Tracks: 16 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 instrumental role was fashioned from the accelerator cooler of a 1965 Ford. An offset of the mathematical group Scroat Belly (though it didn't take long for them to outlive the dance orchestra that spawned them), the trio debuted in 1998 with a self-titled LP issued on the Bloodshot label. In the Mud followed a year after; by this time, isaac Bashevis Singer and mandolin player Wayne Gottstine had expanded the batting order of magnitude to four-spot pieces and Eric Mardis had replaced Lawrence on banjo. The new millennium saw the release of a third base military campaign, Never Make It Home, which arrived in stores in late 2000. After trinity eld of touring, which byword the mathematical group opening for everyone from Del McCoury to Nashville Pussy, Split Lip Rayfield recorded and released a fourth long-player, Should Have Seen It Coming, in 2004. In early 2006, Rundstrom (world Health Organization had likewise released a few solo records) was diagnosed with crab. He continued to perform with the band for months as he fought and underwent intervention, only Rundstrom in the end succumbed to the disease in February 2007, just around a workweek afterwards playacting what would be his final establish. |