Tarbox Ramblers frontman
MICHAEL TARBOX

Saturday, April 24, at 7:30
GiG Performance Space, 1808 Second St., Santa Fe
"A force of nature." —Washington Post

TICKET OPTIONS:
1. $15 advance, $20 door. General Admission. Tickets at Lensic Box Office, 988-1234.
2. $100 VIP PACKAGE. 2 tickets, artist CD, acknowledgment from stage. Helps fund K-12 programs. Call 473-5723 to reserve.
3. FREE for SW Roots Music members. Call 473-5723 at least 3 days in advance to reserve.

Inhabiting a crossroads where Appalachian music, ancient blues and gospel come together in powerful, unexpected combinations, the Tarbox Ramblers are left-field traditionalists whose rough-hewn, direct, old-soul approach makes for startlingly good original songs, as was abundantly apparent when we booked the band for a glorious appearance at the Thirsty Ear Festival in 2005. Robert Plant caught the group's live show and asked them to open his tour dates right on the spot; he later tapped them as backing band for a set with Alison Krauss at The Rock Hall of Fame's Leadbelly Tribute. Tarbox shows are drenched with thickets of gorgeous backwater guitar, waves of percussion in call-and-response drum-and-vocal songs, and timeless lightning-in-a-bottle laments. For his solo gigs, frontman Michael Tarbox strips it down even further, his gritty guitar and sourmash vocals honing in on each song's essence.