Dash Rip Rock

Dash Rip Rock is the legendary New Orleans trio known for their high-octane roots rock. SPIN says Dash Rip Rock is “undeniably the South’s greatest rock band.” The New York Times calls Dash Rip Rock “skillful musicians with a penchant for getting reliably wild….” No Depression raves that DRR’s recent albums prove that Dash is “one of the greatest bands working today.” In 2012 Dash Rip Rock was honored to be inducted into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame.







Dash Rip Rock has long been celebrated for tight musicianship, high energy live shows, and songs of raw insolence and longing that are sometimes cut with whimsy. Bill Davis, Dash Rip Rock’s founder and frontman, is a songwriter known for his blistering guitar work. For over 20 years the band has amassed a loyal, diverse following. Dash Rip Rock’s rhythm section is bassist Patrick Johnson alongside drummer John Value.

Though Dash Rip Rock is an infamous live powerhouse who is often credited with founding the musical genre known as “Country Punk,” Dash has always been a roots-based band inspired by a variety of styles. The wide tent of their cross-genre fan base includes aficionados of rock, roots-rock and Americana as well as rockabilly, country, and punk fans. DRR has released 16 records that have been hailed as underground classics. Bill Davis started the band in the mid ’80s, and DRR was first signed to 688 and then Mammoth Records.

Dash Rip Rock has shared the stage with The Ramones, Jerry Lee Lewis, Lou Reed, The Replacements, No Doubt, the Circle Jerks, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Black Crowes and countless others, at times playing up to 250 shows a year and touring with acts like the Cramps and The Reverend Horton Heat. In 2010 Dash Rip Rock’s song “Johnny Ace” was featured in the hit video game Rock Band. Bill Davis also appears in the 2011 documentary Outside Industry: The Story of SXSW.



WASHINGTON POST

“What lifts Dash Rip Rock’s album a head above most Southern rock is Davis’s ability to write songs that do more than sell beer on Saturday night.”

CREATIVE LOAFING

“Their roots sound’s supercharged with energy and an overdose of irreverence, delivered with crunchy bar band swagger.”

AUSTIN CHRONICLE

“…no one can replace Bill Davis. He’s the brains behind Dash’s brawn, a barroom poet with a wicked sense of humor and a shameless knack for a good lick.”