From their website -
RognboB are Roger Ellithorpe and Bob Iltis.
We live, write and perform songs in rural Southern Illinois. Our tendency is to be silly and have a good time with our
music. We do not intend to offend but this is a difficult endeavor when purposely making fun of everyone.
Roger likes to write poetry and plays guitar, mandolin, and occasionally a banjo. Bob likes to compose and plays too
many things including the guitar, mandolin, souzaphone(tuba), and anything else that makes sound. |
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 Roger, the mail carrier and Bob, the farmer, write and perform their own works - like Calling
in Well, the title tune of their CD and Redneck and Big Diesel Wines, an interesting ad campaign piece for a more robust wine
meant for the over the road trucker.
RognboB twist familiar tunes into pretzels. "Erie Canal" becomes
"Root Canal". "Hot Rod Lincoln" morphs into Cold Dead Chicken.
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Hicks and Ticks is an ode to summer in Southern Illinois and the flora, fauna and humidity that residents know and love.
They also cover folk songs from Lou and Peter Berryman, Micheal Smith, Chuck Brodski and the Billys (among others).
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Rog and Bob's - Sort of a Biography Lifted from Their Website
Roger and Bob met sometime in 1988 at a Wednesday evening jam session at Patrick Sweeney's organic vegetable farm.
Since then they have performed together and with other musicians and vegetables. Their first musical group was called
The Eklektiks. It was first a trio with June McIlwain and later expanded to a quartet adding Jane Reh. This group
did complex vocal arrangements and was nearly accapella. This quartet also cooperated with Billy and Mark Bowden on
a CD called "Accoustically Inclined".
Sometime in 1993 Rog and Bob began performing as a duo and
cooperatively writing new material. Our first release was an original yodeling song called "Mostly" which
appeared on a CD celebrating Makandafest in 1998. This can be heard (complete with broken guitar string) at Carbondale
Nightlfe's (entertainment weekly) website www.carbondalerocks.com
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