Hard driving, witty, eclectic, and honest, the music of the Red Stick Ramblers is inseparable from their way of life and the rich Louisiana culture that first inspired them.
The Red Stick Ramblers will play Fermilab tonight, July 14, at 8 p.m. Tickets will be available at the Lobby Box Office starting at 7 p.m. Prices are $25 for adults and $13 for ages 18 and under.
Their fifth album, My Suitcase Is Always Packed, is as much a travelogue as a sound recording, complete with audio snapshots of relentless all-night dances, laid back campfire sessions, dusty honky-tonks, and raucous family reunions.
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It is the fullest flowering so far of the Ramblers' unique hybrid of Cajun, country, stringband, and swing influences —a sound marked by a daring willingness to experiment with mixing different elements, rather than simply progress through a laundry list of genres from song to song.
