2015 LA Peach Festival Friday Night Concert Dash Rip Rock

Dash Rip Rock is the legendary New Orleans trio known for high-octane roots rock. The New York Times says Dash Rip Rock combines “fluency in American roots music with a robust dose of punk-rock spirit.” SPIN praises Dash Rip Rock as “undeniably the South’s greatest rock band.” In 2012 Dash Rip Rock was honored to be inducted into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame.

DRR is known for tight musicianship, high energy live shows, and songs of raw insolence and longing that are sometimes cut with whimsy. Bill Davis, DRR's founder and frontman, is a songwriter known for his blistering guitar work. For over 20 years the band has amassed a loyal, diverse following. The wide tent of their cross-genre fan base includes aficionados of rock, roots-rock and Americana as well as rockabilly, country, and punk fans. DRR has released 17 records that have been hailed as underground classics.

DDR tours extensively and headlines numerous clubs, festivals, and roots listenting rooms. Dash Rip Rock has toured with The Cramps and also shared stages with The Ramones, Jerry Lee Louis, No Doubt, Black Crowes, Lou Reed, The Replacements, Reverend Horton Heat, the Circle Jerks, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, and countless others, at times playing up to 250 shows a year. DRR's music has been featured on the RockBand video game and their single “Let's Go Smoke Some Pot” is a longtime cult radio hit.

DRR latest album was the critically acclaimed Black Liquor that was released on Alternative Tentacles Records in 2012. Louisiana made and recorded at the infamous Studio in the Country, Black Liquor effortlessly melds rock, swamp, and garage influences into one blistering guitar album with a haunting and quirky indie country ballad and pop voodoo paean rounding it out.

Bill Davis of DRR is currently writing and recording demos for their new album to be recorded in early summer. Davis is the founder, lead guitarist, lead vocalist, and songwriter of Dash Rip Rock. 

WASHINGTON POST
“What lifts Dash Rip Rock’s album a head above most Southern rock is
Davis’s ability to write songs that do more than sell beer on
Saturday night.”

CREATIVE LOAFING
“Their roots sound’s supercharged with energy and an overdose of
irreverence, delivered with crunchy swagger.”

TWISTED SOUTH
“The progenitor of cowpunk, band leader Davis has always had a way
with twisting the images of deep south life….”

OFFBEAT MAGAZINE
“Sporting some of Bill Davis’ hardest-hitting songs—and boosted by
the best production the band’s had since its early-’90s alliance with
the late Jim Dickinson—Black Liquor is the album where the band
rocks out in earnest.”

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