Manager John Lomax III brought in dulcimer master David Schnaufer and, adding drummer David Kennedy and steel guitar player Sam Poland, the Cactus Brothers hit the road. Tramp, equally adept at fiddle, mandolin, and guitar, earned his stripes as a member of the Kendalls' touring band. The trio of Paul Kirby and the Golemon brothers had been playing music together since grade school, Kirby the son of songwriter Dave Kirby (writer of "Is Anybody Goin' to San Antone") and the Golemons the sons of songwriter Guy Golemon. Dropped from the Capital EMI roster, Walk the West subsequently transformed itself into the Cactus Brothers. It wasn't long before the popularity of the Cactus Brothers surpassed that of Walk the West, which was having trouble with the expectations of its West Coast label. With Walk the West cohort Will Golemon (banjo/guitar) in tow, the four soon started gigging around Nashville and the Southeast, playing acoustic sets that offered more of a traditional country sound than the country-rock that Kirby et al. After touring for the better part of a year in support of Walk the West's self-titled 1986 debut album, vocalist/guitarist Paul Kirby and bass player John Golemon joined with multi-instrumentalist Tramp to play at a friend's funeral. All rights reserved.Originally a side project for several members of Nashville's popular Walk the West, the Cactus Brothers eventually overshadowed their alter ego to take on a life of their own. Tightrope is available now on CD, as a limited-edition two-LP colored-vinyl set and digitally.Ĭopyright © 2021, ABC Audio. The album also features a cover of the 1972 Temptations chart-topper “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone.” Appice reveals that the reason Cactus brought the song into its repertoire was that Warren actually played on the original track as a teenage session guitarist.Īfter playing the song in concert, and getting a great reaction from fans, Carmine says the Motown classic wound up being the first track Cactus recorded for Tightrope, adding that “it came out fantastic.”Ĭactus recently debuted a music video for the album’s title track that you can watch on YouTube. Tightrope is made up mainly of new original songs, and boasts a diverse mix of tunes that includes heavy rock, 12-bar blues, melodic rock and atmospheric power ballads. And I think everybody that participated really, really did great parts…So I think we’ve really updated the Cactus sound.” “I tried to create different drum tracks with each song. Rounding out the lineup are frontman Jimmy Kunes and harmonica player Randy Pratt, who’ve been in Cactus since the group was relaunched in 2006.Īppice, the only original Cactus member still in the band, tells ABC Audio that he thinks Tightrope features some of the best tunes the group has ever created. Cactus, the hard-rock band co-founded in 1969 by Vanilla Fudge drummer Carmine Appice and bassist Tim Bogert, has just released a new studio album called Tightrope.Ī follow-up to 2016’s Black Dawn, Tightrope is the group’s first to feature new guitarist Paul Warren and bassist Jimmy Caputo, who respectively replaced co-founder Jim McCarty and Pete Bremy in 2017.
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