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About Blasting Caps
Product Description Quickdraw String Band's Blasting Caps is a welcome addition to the traditional music canon, and makes for a fine addition to any acoustic music lover's library. And the packaging too, is lovingly crafted, fed one-by-one through an old letterpress printer. This band is as endearing as they are energetic, as adaptive as they are consistent. Pick up this album; you will love it. Review Blasting Caps is a great romp through some great tunes that you've probably never heard anything like before. --Ian Chant, Whats Up! Magazine My favorite kind of music played very well, with passion. --R. Meme, RadioMeme Quickdraw String Band has managed to blend a myriad of influences into standard old-time music, playing and honing a sound all its own. --Carey Ross, Cascadia Weekly About the Artist Emerging from the acoustic string band tradition, Quickdraw String Band plays a repertoire of Country Blues, Honky Tonk, and Folk Song sung from a cross-breed of backgrounds. Their mighty bassist, Robert "Goldtooth" Ray, brings the honky tonk and most of the country blues to the table. Dave Maguire's mandolin and Matt Novak's guitar eat it up while returning Goldtooth's favor with shots from any cannon, traditional, cover, or original. August 2005 saw the release of Quickdraw's debut CD release, Blasting Caps. Their style often defies categorization into any singular acoustic genre, but is definitely solidly grounded in acoustic tradition. This is exactly what makes them completely unique. Goldtooth often states that nobody else is doing what Quickdraw is doing musically, and if they are, "they ain't doing it quite like us." It is the strong and varying backgrounds of all three members that make the combination so intriguing and distinct. Dave has played in Cajun and Punk-influenced bands in the past, and is currently playing with the local Bellingham bluegrass band, Feed and Seed. Matt, schooled in the piano as a teenager, transferred to the guitar and learned well how to drive a fiddle tune as well as write a song, which has earned him a name as a solo act. Goldtooth, though strongly schooled and raised in Appalachian tradition, brings a strong Blues and Swing influence to the table, and is the frontman for his Swing band, Goldtooth Deluxe.
