Although the Electric Rag Band was formed in 1994, the history of the band goes back much further. Drummer Johnny Walker and guitarist Pat Cook along with harmonica player John Boffer and bassist John Madix formed The Johnny Walker Blues Band in 1987. The Band became a staple in the Tulsa Blues scene with their straight-ahead Chicago Blues, Delta Blues, and Blues-Rock styles. In 1990, the band was voted Tulsa's Best-Unsigned Blues Band. They received great critical acclaim from Tulsa's blues fans and fellow musicians. They opened shows for people like Charley Musslewhite, Little Charley and the Nightcats, and Charles Brown. In 1993, the band felt it had run it's course and disbanded. In the interim, guitarist Pat Cook began getting interested in Ragtime and it's influence on the Piedmont guitar styles of Blind Blake, Blind Boy Fuller, and Blind Willie McTell. The concept of doing this style of music in an electric three-piece band was born. So in 1994, he convinced his former bassist John Madix and drummer Johnny Walker to form The Electric Rag Band. Although they were skeptical at first, as the style developed, it was obvious they were on to something. That year the band was named Tulsa's Best-Unsigned Blues Band once again. The Band also released a cassette in 1994, titled "American Folk Music". They became regulars in the Tulsa live music scene. They have opened shows for people ranging from Chicago Blues Guitarist Luther Jr. Johnson to the rock bands like Dash Rip Rock. The band released its first CD, The Electric Rag Band, in June of 1996 to a lot of anxious fans. The CD received great reviews and radio play all over the world. Their second CD, Too Tight, was released in April of 1998. It also received great reviews and lots of radio play. Since then the band has opened for guitar slingers Johnny Winter and Bugs Henderson and roots bands like The Paladins, Deke Dickerson, Kim Lenz and Her Jaguars, and Southern Culture on the Skids. The current lineup consists of Pat Cook on Guitar and Vocals, Johnny Walker on Drums, Shane Stewart on Bass, and Karen Naifeh on Violin/Fiddle. The bands infulences have continued to expand into all sorts of roots music -- from Gypsy, to Celtic, to Hillbilly -- but the band really rocks -- no cookie cutter stuff. The band released their third CD, ...finest ingredients, in November of 2001. The disc charted in February and March of 2002 on the Freeform American Roots Chart. The band is playing shows regularly in Oklahoma, and doing some limited touring in the US.