NORTHAMPTON – Boston favorites the Tarbox Ramblers made a wee jaunt down the Pike in mid-December for a full night of rootsy American music at the Iron Horse. With a wide grin and his hat cocked askew ...

Too many revivalists try to re-create the romanticized “purity” of southern blues and folk and end up instead with something overdistilled and flavorless, emptied of the existential dread that’s ...

When the Tarbox Ramblers begin playing, a lot can happen quickly. That’s because they can take audiences to a place where Appalachian music, ancient blues and gospel come together in powerful, ...

Taking listeners to a place where gutbucket blues, hillbilly music and gospel come together in powerful and unexpected combinations, The Tarbox Ramblers are left-field traditionalists whose ...

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The Tarbox Ramblers' second album approaches like a thunderhead, a big, ominous rumble of guitars and drums, and when the tumult is joined by the deep, gritty voice of Michael Tarbox, it's as if the ...

The Tarbox Ramblers surely play a heartfelt brand of old-timey music. On record, the Boston quartet can pass for something Alan Lomax discovered in a Delta field half a century ago. And the Ramblers ...

STOCKBRIDGE - Somewhere at the intersection of blues, folk, jug band stomp and the spare-tire-voodoo of Tom Waits lies the work of the Tarbox Ramblers, the Boston-based road warriors who have been ...

The need for transcendence is what drives our passion for music. The exuberance in being lifted to another place through song is both invigorating and addictive -- all it takes is an open mind and a ...