- Love Tractor
Love Tractor is an
alternative rock band fromAthens, Georgia . The band was formed in 1980 by guitarists Mark Cline and Mike Richmond. The band played their first few gigs with no bassist and a drum machine, but bassist/multi-instrumentalist/artist Armistead Wellford and drummer Kit Schwartz were added early on. Along withThe B-52's , Pylon and R.E.M., Love Tractor is considered one of the founding members of the Athens alternative rock scene. Love Tractor originally performed only instrumental material.The band first signed to
DB Records . Later, the original lineup (with several different drummers replacing Schwartz) recorded for RCA and Razor and Tie Records. After a breakup that lasted several years, the band re-formed in 2001 and recorded the CD 'The Sky at Night' for Razor and Tie. [ [http://www.onlineathens.com/cgi-bin/rockathens/stories.cgi?/stories/030101/roc_0301010013.shtml Love Tractor plows into the future]Rock Athens March 01, 2001]References
Besides being rooted in Byrds-like jangle-pop, Love Tractor almost sounds like the Grateful Dead..if the Dead knew what they were doing... in the great tune "We All Loved Each Other So Much" form 1987's "This Ain't No Outer Space Ship" album.
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