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Country Kinship: liberal biography
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When cousins Ron and Tim was young, playin’ guitar on the porch of their daddy’s trailer by Harlin Creek in the Ozarks, Ron says “We can make money doin’ this in the big city…Californy”. Tim says ‘That hog ain’t got slop”. But, eventually (now in their sixties) they are found on the stage of a small beer bar in Banning (hoping 25% of all tabs is over $100), they finally made it to the big city…
More believable:
Ron and Tim played in the professional circle in the lower desert for years, never crossed paths somehow. Through their acquaintance with Jack…they got together one time to prepare for a gig and declared “This is going to work” and immediately started playing as Country Kinship.
Ron is a one take wonder…knocked it out of the park with awesome vocal chops on almost every song first time through in the recording studio.
All songs on the album “Echoes” were done with minimal takes due to financial constraint.
Country Kinship is a trio…multiple vocal/mandolin and additional guitar tracks were added to “Echoes” for enhancement, special thanks to Eric Cutshall for excellent lead guitar work.
Trio is one of the most demanding configurations musically, all three pieced need to be tight and full, we have been pulling off four hour shows comfortably using allot of harmony.
We love playing and have played for a little gas money in the past…paid our dues. We continue to seek venues to showcase our talent at a reasonable rate.
Jack musicality and accuracy on drums are such that even if Tim lands on the wrong bass fret, it still sounds good…hence inspiration for Tim saying “With Jack, I can fall off the horse and keep riding”.
Tim’s young professional career was in LA/OC dives with the Joshua Tree Band. This included stints at a Hawaiian bar with country music (downtown LA), where Blacks came from miles to hear the Blues (after 11PM). With this trio, he played bass with many of the best (and worst) drummers out of Musician’s Contact in Hollywood at that time…
When cousins Ron and Tim was young, playin’ guitar on the porch of their daddy’s trailer by Harlin Creek in the Ozarks, Ron says “We can make money doin’ this in the big city…Californy”. Tim says ‘That hog ain’t got slop”. But, eventually (now in their sixties) they are found on the stage of a small beer bar in Banning (hoping 25% of all tabs is over $100), they finally made it to the big city…
More believable:
Ron and Tim played in the professional circle in the lower desert for years, never crossed paths somehow. Through their acquaintance with Jack…they got together one time to prepare for a gig and declared “This is going to work” and immediately started playing as Country Kinship.
Ron is a one take wonder…knocked it out of the park with awesome vocal chops on almost every song first time through in the recording studio.
All songs on the album “Echoes” were done with minimal takes due to financial constraint.
Country Kinship is a trio…multiple vocal/mandolin and additional guitar tracks were added to “Echoes” for enhancement, special thanks to Eric Cutshall for excellent lead guitar work.
Trio is one of the most demanding configurations musically, all three pieced need to be tight and full, we have been pulling off four hour shows comfortably using allot of harmony.
We love playing and have played for a little gas money in the past…paid our dues. We continue to seek venues to showcase our talent at a reasonable rate.
Jack musicality and accuracy on drums are such that even if Tim lands on the wrong bass fret, it still sounds good…hence inspiration for Tim saying “With Jack, I can fall off the horse and keep riding”.
Tim’s young professional career was in LA/OC dives with the Joshua Tree Band. This included stints at a Hawaiian bar with country music (downtown LA), where Blacks came from miles to hear the Blues (after 11PM). With this trio, he played bass with many of the best (and worst) drummers out of Musician’s Contact in Hollywood at that time…