Our current CD is now SOLD OUT!

Released on LSF Music, this CD includes many

original songs and some of our favorite Bluegrass tunes.

We are currently in the studio working on our next project. Look for it soon.

The Not Too Bad Bluegrass Band is:

Brian Lappin: Banjo & Vocals

Doug Harden: Mandolin & Vocals

Greg Norman: Bass & Vocals

Kent Todd: Fiddle, Guitar & Vocals

Brady Stogdill: Guitar & Vocals

Song List with MP3 samples

1. Rundown Highway Ends - Kent Todd (Make Me Loud Music) - 2:56

2. Red Clay Halo - Gillian Welch/David Rawlings (Irving Music, Inc., Cracklin' Music - BMI) - 3:09

3. Butcher Boy - Traditional - 3:00

4. Say I Do - Ronnie Bowman (William Franklin Publishing - BMI) - 2:28

5. Third Day At The Festival - Brian P. Lappin (Flat-Head Music) - 3:16

6. Where Did Our Love Go? - Kent Todd (Make Me Loud Music) - 4:37

7. Take This Hammer - Birchfield/Osborne (Sure Fire Music - BMI) - 3:05

8. Long Black Veil - Dill/Wilkin (BMI) - 4:30

9. You're The One - Jimmy Haley/Doobie Shea (BMI) - 2:27

10. I'll Take The Blame - G. Stacey/L. Certain/J. Clackly (Buna Music -BMI) - 3:11

11. Carter's Blues -  A.P. Carter (BMI) - 3:01

12. Long Lonesome Road - Kent Todd/Brady Stogdill (Make Me Loud Music/Broken String Music) - 3:41

13. I'll Go Steppin' Too - T.James/J.Organ - 2:58

14. Train 45 - Traditional - 0:36

Not Too Bad Bluegrass Band

Butcher Boy CD

After 17 years of playing throughout Bloomington the Not Too Bad Bluegrass Band has gathered up a collection of originals and covers to commit to aluminum. Despite their name, NTBBB are pretty good. Brain Lappin's banjo carries each song across his back like a mule, pushing along with baritone melodies and double-time finger picking. Their take of Gillian Welch and David Rawlings' "Red Clay Halo" reeks of the earthy feel of the original, sounding every bit as haunting. On the traditional "Butch Boy," the country gothic is fed through an early morning air, slowing down for a nice dip in the album before the pace quicken for the next ten songs. Fiddle and guitar player Kent Todd offers two pieces, "Where Did Our Love Go" and "Lonesome Road." Both sound like they were picked from dog-eared Hoosier songbooks. While the former is a broken-heated lament, "Lonesome Road" picks up like a dusty wagon heading into the open plains. Possibly hard to distinguish from other bluegrass groups, the NTBBB often seven-person membership offers enough entwined weaving to keep them ahead of most. Their commitment to continue for nearly twenty years is a statement for any local band to take heed of.

Audibles  The Herald Times 

Oct. 26, 2001

By David Coonce

 Not-Too-Bad Bluegrass Band, Butcher Boy. 

It would be tempting to use the band’s name as a quick review of them. But it wouldn’t really be accurate. The NTBBB are actually a pretty good bluegrass band, and on their debut CD they prove as much, traversing a wide history of the style, from the Cater Family (“Carter’s Blues”) to the band’s own compositions. The group’s playing is very good, the arrangements are solid and uncluttered and the five vocalists work well together. Not too bad indeed. Sorry, I gave in to temptation.

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