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- Sid
Griffin
- Music journalist, Gram Parsons officianardo,
singer-songwriter, guitarist - Sid Griffin has
many hats. He will perhaps always be remembered
as "the one with the sideburns" from
The Long Ryders, a band from Los Angeles who were
at the vanguard of the Paisley Underground
explosion which threatened but ultimately failed
to take over rock music in the early eighties.
When The Long Ryders collapsed in a heap in late
1987, Sid took time off to think about his future
before forming The Coal Porters with his old
'Ryders pal, Greg Sowders. When marriage brought
him to England he brought the band name with him
and though his name has been the only constant in
the line-up he continues to play his brand of
rootsy, country-rock and bluegrass, and with
Western Electric is beginning to spread his
musical wings.
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