Meet the Rincon Ramblers

Jon Wilcox
[Jon Wilcox] Jon Wilcox on mandolin, bouzouki, guitar, and vocals, brings a strong background in American and Celtic folk styles to the group. He has recorded 2 solo albums on the Folk-Legacy and Sierra/Briar labels as well as 7 CDs with Marley's Ghost, which he co-founded in 1986 and still performs with regularly. His first solo CD, Still Life, was released in February, 1999 on the Sage Arts label.

Phil Salazar
[Phil Salazar] Fiddler-vocalist Phil Salazar comes from a family of classical musicians and is a celebrated "newgrass" fiddler in his own right. Having produced 5 CDs on Flying Fish, including 2 with the Acousticats, he has performed and recorded with John McEuen, Kate Wolf, Nick Gravenites, the Cache Valley Drifters, Laurie Lewis, Richard Greene, Mark O'Connor, and many others. . Phil's recently released Tribute To Jerry Garcia is already receiving fine accolades.

Bill Flores
[Bill Flores] Bill Flores is an eighth-generation Californian and a second-generation steel guitar player. The band's "gee-whiz" multi-instrumentalist, he is proficient on dobro, pedal steel, banjo, guitar, saxophone, and accordion,among others. His tatses run from traditional folk and R&B to jazz, Norteno, and Hawaiian. He has toured Europe with various blues and zydeco bands. He and Danny Wilson are also part of "The Lowly Sidemen", the instrumental supoport for the female vocal trio, The Tatters.

Danny Wilson
[Dan Wilson] Danny Wilson is an accomplished guitarist and mandolin player- bringing several of his compositions to the band's repertoire- but with the Ramblers his resonant bass guitar sets the groove within which it all rocks and swings. He has toured with John McEuen's String Wizards, Big Mama Thornton, Pat Flynn (Newgrass Revival), Danny Wheetman (John Denver, Marley's Ghost), and numerous country, bluegrass, and electric bands. He appeared on the Grammy-nominated This Land is Your Land with Arlo Guthrie in 1998. He and Bill Flores are also part of "The Lowly Sidemen", the instrumental supoport for the female vocal trio, The Tatters.

Jack Joshua
[Jack Joshua] After 20-plus years of playing bass (4-, 5-, and 6-string bass guitar, fretless bass guitar, acoustic bass guitar, string bass, electric upright bass, synth bass) in the most modern of contexts, Jack Joshua says he is being brought "back to the basics". Over the last few years he has been drawn to and playing more folk music, delta blues, New Orleans jazz, traditional country, western swing, Irish jigs, and reels, Negro spirituals, the real roots of American music. Jack Joshua has been heard in many musical situations: In concert halls, night clubs, and recording studios all over the west coast, and with Victoria Williams, Mary Murphy and Paul Keim, Cyrus Clarke and the bands "California Colored Cowboys," "Zydeco Mofos," and "Jack Joshua and the Hoshuas." and "The Tatters."


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