Tiger Moth
Biography
With their energetic mixture of traditional English country dance music, reggae, blues, rock roll, jazz, and world music, Tiger Moth, and its successor Orchestra Super Moth, helped to spark a new wave of British trad rock bands in the late '80s. During the six years that it was together, the group rocked the traditional British world with a style of electric music that the Free Press review called, "zany, lively, danceable, and fun." Tiger Moth originated as the English Country Blues Band, a group formed by melodeon wiz Rod Stradling shortly after leaving Old Swan Band in the early '80s. The band changed its name after switching to a more-electric approach. The original members -- guitarist Ian A. Anderson, formerly with Hot Vultures and later the editor of Folk Roots; hammered dulcimer player Chris Coe; and bass guitar and banjo player and vocalist Maggie Holland; in addition to Stradling -- were subsequently joined by electric guitar and synthesizer player Jon Moore, drummer/percussionist John Maxwell, and keyboards and melodeon player ian Carter. ~ Craig Harris, Rovi
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