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The Ruminants currently have no studio releases, but offer free recordings from various venues, rehearsals and jam sessions to patrons of their live shows!
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Music for music's sake.
It's why Mike and Todd first climbed on a stage in the Alberta badlands, to bash out a blend of dirty western ballads and provoking pop for an appreciative audience of drinkers, thinkers and dancers. When the last mandolin solo ended, and the rhythm section rumbled to a halt, The Ruminants handed free recordings of their songs to those who asked — as they have at every show since, the stack of no-price discs disappeared in seconds. With free comes the freedom to play for the joy of it, not to pursue popularity. People like free, and we like to play: we'd offer sandwiches, but CDs are easier to stuff inside a guitar case.
With drum-man Ron Burland adding his creative back beats to the guitar, bass and mandolin foundation, The Ruminants are a band capable of fading to a melodic whisper, or leaving your nerves on edge with freight-train tempos. Less than a year since inception, it's a sound still under construction — and it probably always will be.
As FFWD magazine in Calgary put it, “The Ruminants only use country music as a jumping point to whichever genre suits their fancy at that particular moment.”
Amen to that — it's called music for music's sake.
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