Live Music - The Rifters
St Bernard Bar - No cover
The Rifters are a band playing their own brand of southwestern
folk-country Americana and whatever-else-they-feel-like music, based in
and around Taos, New Mexico.
The Rifters are Rod Taylor
(guitar, mandolin, vocals), Don Richmond (guitar, mandolin, fiddle,
banjo, pedal steel guitar, dobro, harmonica, vocals), and Jim Bradley
(bass, vocals). Putting out more music than it seems should be right
for three guys on stage, the Rifters employ a wide range of acoustic
and electric instruments, combined with soaring three-part harmonies, to
provide a mesmerizing variety of music from driving blue-grama-grass to
ethereal desert beauty. The years of playing to the dance crowds in
their northern New Mexico homeland has given their music a toe-tapping
rhythm that is engaging and undeniable. With a pedigree of bands like
Hired Hands, the Rounders, and South by Southwest among them, the
Rifters are truly a musical voice of their region of high desert vistas
and mountain majesty.
