The Electric Rag Band Bio
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. The band is working on their fifth CD.
It should be out next spring.
Influences range from country blues artists like Blind Willie
McTell and Big Bill Broonzy to newer acts like The Reverend Horton Heat and The Gourds.
They have opened for:
Johnny Winter
Billy Joe Shaver
The Derailers
The Paladins
Split Lip Rayfield
Junior Brown
Bugs Henderson
Dale Watson
Deke Dickerson
Hot Club of Cowtown
Scott Biram
Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band
Little Charlie and the Nightcats
Charlie Musslewhite
Southern Culture on the Skids
Th' Legendary Shack Shakers
Dash Rip Rock
Kim Lenz and her Jaguars
Charles Brown
Luther Junior Johnson
Nick Curran
"The Electric Rag Band is the coolest band I've heard come through these parts in a long, long time."
- Colorado Springs Independent
"Every band thinks it's a 'roots' band, but The Electric Rag Band has a pedigree even chemical stump-remover
couldn't extract."
- Tulsa World
"The last three times I saw you guys, I got blisters on my feet."
- Becky
"In this self-released CD, the band reinterprets these classics for the
end of the 20th century, but doing it with respect and affection, and
that's good."
- Blues Review
"...a full range of great tunes to inspire you."
- Blues Review
"It works."
- Blues Review
"If you haven't forgotten that these old blues were meant for good times,
this is a band you should check out."
- Living Blues
"These three guys hail from Tulsa OK, but listening to their record you get
the feeling they REALLY live in the back of the Yazoo Warehouse."
- Smitty Ray Barlow
"They win fans wherever they play by blending old favorites that could
appease any crowd with original vibrance that compels the listener with a
groove to move.
- Infinity Press
"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