Guitarist John Parker Compton and violinist Robin Batteau were playing the coffeehouse circuit together in Cambridge during the late '60s before forming the band Appaloosa. Also including bassist David Reiser and cellist Eugene Rosov, Appaloosa was signed to Columbia Records in 1969, and had an LP on the shelves before the year was out. The Cambridge folk-influenced founding duo followed up their band's self-titled album with the 1970 recording, Compton Batteau in California, before going their separate ways; Compton recorded a solo album, To Luna, the following year, and resurfaced in the '90s with some new recordings, while Batteau went on to play in a duo with his brother David Batteau, before joining the late-'70s band Pierce Arrow, then working as a studio musician. ~ Joslyn Layne, Rovi