Sietse, Joe and Mary Ann have been playing music together since the mid 1980’s. They recorded 2 songs for the Dutch compilation album « Holland Billy » with their band « The Greyhounds ». In 1991 they formed « The Ranch Girls & Ragtime Wranglers, female harmony vocals backed up by guitar, upright bass and drums and toured intensively around Europe and the USA.
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| A year after the last Ranch Girls album, in 2002, one of the Ranch Girls quitted and Miss Mary Ann continued alone. In this same period Miss Mary Ann moved to the UK. Travelling from the UK to Holland sometimes was impossible when gigs came in at the last minute. The Ragtime Wranglers always say « yes » to a promoter so that’s when we started to play live with the instrumental trio.When you ask their influence and the music they want to play, they all will answer: early Country, Hillbilly, Western Swing, Rockabilly, Blues, Rhythm & Blues, Jazz and everything in between. The Ranch Girls were influenced by early duet-singing, Miss Mary Ann is rockabilly hooked and the Ragtime Wranglers like all but go wild for rocking instrumentals.In the Ragtime Wrangler’s opinion pop-songs without vocals are a forgotten art form. It has been a while since the charts were filled with instrumentals. Some favourite artists ??? Too many to mention! We like rereleases on Bear Family, Charly, Ace, White Label to name a few and more obscure stuff. | |
| The band recorded their first song without vocalists for the Ranch Girls’EP in 1993: Joe Maphis’ song « The Rocking Gypsy ». This song appeared to be a much requested song and is still in the band’s repertoire. In April 1995 the first Ragtime Wranglers solo-product was released on our own label « Home Brew Records ». The A-side is the second recording of « The Rocking Gypsy », the other side is « Road Stop » by Jimmy Day. | |