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Coordinates | 28°1′0″N153°24′0″N |
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Name | The Tractors |
Background | group_or_band |
Origin | Oklahoma, United States |
Genre | Country |
Years active | 1988-present |
Label | Arista Nashville, Audium, Boy Rocking |
Associated acts | Bonnie Raitt |
Url | http://thetractors.com |
Current members | Steve Ripleyother official and unofficial contributors |
The Tractors is an American country rock band composed of a loosely associated group of musicians, headed by guitarist Steve Ripley. Under the band's original lineup, The Tractors was signed to Arista Records in 1994, releasing their self-titled debut album that year; the album went on to become the top-selling album of 1994, even though it only produced one Top 40 hit on the Billboard country charts. To date, the band has followed up with five more albums.
Since their foundation, most of the band's original members have moved on to separate projects, although they often collaborate with frontman Ripley on The Tractors' more recent recordings. Ripley is the only official member of the group; he has stated that The Tractors is more of a "state of mind", with the original lineup comprising Ron Getman (electric guitar, slide guitar), Jamie Oldaker (drums), Walt Richmond (bass vocals, keyboards), Steve Ripley (guitar, lead vocals), and Casey van Beek (bass guitar, baritone vocals). All five members had previously been backing musicians for other notable artists, including Eric Clapton, Bonnie Raitt, Linda Ronstadt, and Leonard Cohen.
By 1990, the group was signed to Arista Records, a newly-formed record label based in Nashville, Tennessee. That album was soon followed by a Christmas album called Have Yourself a Tractors Christmas. The band's members, except for Ripley, soon departed for other projects, although they and Ripley remained close friends, and made cameo appearances on subsequent albums. Ripley, along with several other musicians, released the next Tractors album, Fast Girl, on Audium Entertainment in 1998. After Fast Girl, the Tractors left Audium as well, and soon formed its own label, Boy Rocking Records. In 2009 "Trade Union" was released on E1.
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