Ikes Road

In 2003, the early days, Ed took a trip to Johnny's farm with Dee and Uncle Cliff. Ed and John played around with the keyboard and guitar and recorded 2 songs that Ed had been playing for a while, "Amazing Grace" and "The Battle Hymn of the Republic". We had a lot of fun, John made a copy on cassette for Ed, and that was pretty much it. It was intended to just be a small family get-together.

Well, the following year, Bob came back from Alaska and was living with Ed (they're brothers), and Bob was talking about how he used to sing karaoke in Fairbanks in order to have something to do during the long winter nights up there. He did joke about how he and a friend of his changed the words on songs when they were singing. Ed remembered a changed song he had read in "Mad Magazine" when he was a teenager, "Guillotine" and started singing the parts that he remembered. Jokingly, I suggested that we go visit Cousin John and record them. So, off to Wellsboro we went. While we were up at John's Farm on Ike's Road, Bob came up with the idea of calling ourselves, "The Ikes Road Band". Well, we recorded his song, You're 63, You're Desperate, and You're Mine, and played around creating several new songs in the same vein as Guillotine and we also recorded Electric Chair, Cyanide and Mustard Gas. as well as several normal songs found on our first CD. We decided that this was a lot of fun, spending time together, making music, and just gabbing. After a few more trips to Wellsboro, we had enough music to fill a CD, and Ed got carried away and made a bunch of CD's with a photo of Ike's Road on the front and just called the CD, "Ikes Road". We passed copies of the CD out to family members knowing that they have to take them, and listen to them at least once. Well, Aunt Delores raved over our music and that pretty much gave us the push to make more.

On the CD, Ed took a couple of Bob's poems and set them to music. His best is Your Flowers performed by Bob, and Ed and John did their best to make Bob happy with The Bird House.

Last updated July 18, 2007