| 词条 | Rank and File (band) |
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| name = Rank and File | image = | caption = | image_size = 250 | background = group_or_band | origin = | genre = Alternative country, cowpunk, post-punk, new wave | years_active = 1981–1987 | label = Slash, Rhino | associated_acts = The Dils The Nuns True Believers | current_members = | past_members = Chip Kinman Tony Kinman Alejandro Escovedo Slim Evans Bobby Kahr }} Rank and File was an American punk rock band established in 1981 in Austin, Texas by Chip Kinman and Tony Kinman, a pair of brothers who had been members of the seminal California band The Dils. The band were forerunners in combining the musical rawness and Do It Yourself punk aesthetic with the style and ambience of country and western music, helping to create a subgenre known as cowpunk. After releasing three albums, the band terminated in 1987. HistoryFormationIn 1981, the brothers Chip and Tony Kinman split up their influential political punk band The Dils, based in Carlsbad, California, and departed for the East. After a brief time in New York City, the brothers landed in the musical mecca of Austin, Texas, to start a new band.[1] There they joined forces with guitarist Alejandro Escovedo of The Nuns to form Rank and File.[2] Recording historyRank and File released three albums—two on prominent Los Angeles label Slash Records and a third on the offbeat, retro-oriented Rhino Records. The band's debut album, Sundown, was released in June 1982 on Slash Records. A second Slash album, 1984's Long Gone Dead, included a cover version of a tune by Lefty Frizzell and made use of traditional country instrumentation such as a steel guitar and fiddle.[1] Chicago Tribune music critic Tom Popson emphasized the band's employment of "a lot of Johnny Cash-style rockabilly guitar lines" as part of that particular project.[1] The band's third and final full-length release, the eponymous album Rank and File on Rhino Records, marked a move from traditional country to more pop-oriented country-tinged fare, which the band deemed "a little easier for the normal person to pick up on".[1] Guitarist Chip Kinman later recalled the difficulty the band had at the time of its launch, during which "people were grossed out" by the band's heavy-on-the-country, light-on the punk sound.[1] "We'd go into New Wave clubs, and no one was playing country music. We'd play those songs, and we'd never get asked back," Kinman remembered.[1] Stylistic trendsettersWhile continuing to espouse their personal political views, the Kinmans saw their new band as a more entertaining departure from the intensity of hardcore punk, embracing the sound and cultural ambience of country music, albeit with a post-punk spin. In a 1986 interview with Flipside magazine, bassist Tony Kinman emphasized the band's willingness to shatter stylistic preconceptions to become trendsetters:
The band appeared on PBS's nationally broadcast country music showcase Austin City Limits.[4] Later projectsThe Kinmans' next project was the synthpop, guitar and drum-machine based, Blackbird. They would return to the cowpunk subgenre with another band, a minimalistic three-piece band called Cowboy Nation that released its debut album in January 1997 on Shock Records from Australia.[5] In 2018, The Kinman brothers reunited for Chip's new band Ford Madox Ford. Released by Porterhouse records, Ford Madox Ford's debut album "This American Blues" features Chip on vocals and guitar, Matt Littell on bass, S. Scott Aguero on drums, Dewey Peak on lead guitar and Tony Kinman as producer. Alejandro Escovedo formed the True Believers with his brother Javier, before launching a solo songwriting and recording career. Tony Kinman died on May 4, 2018.[6] Discography
References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 Tom Popson, "Rank And File: Country-pop Outfit Scrubs The Country," Chicago Tribune, April 17, 1987. 2. ^The band name is sometimes rendered as "Rank 'N File", see for example Martha Ross O'Meara, "Rank 'N File", Flipside, whole no. 49 (Summer 1986), pp. 14–16. 3. ^Martha Ross O'Meara, "Rank 'N File," Flipside, whole no. 49 (Summer 1986), pg. 16. 4. ^{{cite web|url={{Allmusic|class=artist|id=p20067/biography|pure_url=yes}}|title=Rank and File AMG biography|accessdate=2008-05-18}} 5. ^Richie Unterberger, "Chip Kinman," Interview of January 1997, www.richieunterberger.com/ 6. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/music/2018-05-04/tony-kinman-1956-2018/|title=Tony Kinman 1956-2018|website=Austinchronicle.com|accessdate=8 May 2018}} External links
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