A boat sailing on a river surrounded by tall, misty mountains

The Dry Bed String Band
Michael Kim Roos: vocals, guitar, harmonica
Rocco Bernardini: bass, backing vocals
Hercules Hagedorn: drums, percussion
Jacques Barniers: banjo, jaw harp
Joey K: mandolin, ukelele, backing vocals
Billy (The Kid) Beaumont: dobro

Special Guest
Pancho Villacruz: electric lap slide

Amazon Reviews

richard

5.0 out of 5 stars
I love this album.

Reviewed in the United States
July 25, 2011

“This is the thinking man's roots music and I don't know why Mike Roos hasn't been featured on Trans-Atlantic Sessions. His material has everything - courage, humour, emotion. All the tracks on this album are excellent but I especially like Holy Slow Train and Plato's Slave Boy. Spread the word Mike Roos is Ace!”

outsiderart on Amazon

5.0 out of 5 stars
singular and special

Reviewed in the United States
April 20, 2011

“personal; elemental; a little bit blue-grass, a little bit folk, a little bit rock, a lot of sly, a lot of care; seriously good mix of vocals and musicianship, sound and sense -- enjoy the surface effect, then return for the layers of allusions in the words, the emotions in the music.”

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Recorded in Blue Ash, OH, 2007-2010.

Words, music, recording, and production by Michael Kim Roos.

Vocals, guitar, banjo, mandolin, dobro, electric lap slide, harmonica, keyboard, jaw harp, and drum programming by Michael Kim Roos.

Copyright © 2010 by Michael Kim Roos

“We are like Plato’s slave boy,
We hear the echo of a music we seem to have always known, somewhere far below the waves of oblivion that have covered it over.”
—Peter Craven

This collection of songs is for Minsun Kim, my Asian princess, who, in one way or another, inspired all of it
…and more.

Click on song title for lyrics