Artist: Split Lip Rayfield
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Should Have Seen It Coming
Year: 2004
Tracks: 16
Never Make It Home
Year: 2001
Tracks: 14
In The Mud
Year: 1999
Tracks: 16
The Kansas-based post-punk progressive bluegrass getup Split Lip Rayfield was comprised of vocalist/banjoist David Lawrence, guitarist/dobroist Kirk Rundstrom, and one-string bassist Jeff Eaton, whose instrumental part was fashioned from the accelerator tank of a 1965 Ford. An branch of the mathematical grouping Scroat Belly (though it didn't pick out long for them to outlive the dance orchestra that spawned them), the trio debuted in 1998 with a self-titled LP issued on the Bloodshot label. In the Mud followed a year later; by this time, isaac Bashevis Singer and mandolin player Wayne Gottstine had expanded the batting order to four-spot pieces and Eric Mardis had replaced Lawrence on banjo. The new millennium saw the release of a third base military campaign, Never Make It Home, which arrived in stores in belated 2000. After trinity days of touring, which saw the numerical group possible action for everyone from Del McCoury to Nashville Pussy, Split Lip Rayfield recorded and released a fourth long-player, Should Have Seen It Coming, in 2004. In early 2006, Rundstrom (world Health Organization had likewise released a few solo records) was diagnosed with cancer. He continued to perform with the band for months as he fought and underwent intervention, only Rundstrom in the end succumbed to the disease in February 2007, just around a workweek later playacting what would be his final establish.
