Bodeco

Bodeco
OriginLouisville, Kentucky
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MembersRicky Feather
Jimmy Brown
Gary Stillwell
Gene Wickliffe
Freddie Wethington

Bodeco is an American rock band formed in 1984 in Louisville, Kentucky by guitarist, singer and songwriter Ricky Feather and drummer Brian Burkett. It later grew into a full band, with its most famous line-up featuring Feather, Burkett, guitarist Wink O'Bannon, bassist Jimmy Brown and multi-instrumentalist Gary Stillwell. Only Feather, Brown and Stillwell remain from that version.

Titled after a portmanteau of "Bo Diddley" and zydeco, the quintet typically plays a fast-paced country- and blues-tinged rock and roll. The band has recorded four studio albums, including the November 2009 release of "Soul Boost", and a live album.

Bodeco has had a considerable impact on the Louisville music scene, finding a place at No. 80 on WFPK's "top 1000 albums of all time"[1] and inspiring Trouser Press to dub them "[o]ne of the most underappreciated combos in the early-to-mid-'90s indie roots-rock movement".[2]

  1. ^ 2000 WFPK Radio Louisville's top 1000 of the best albums ever Archived 2014-03-09 at the Wayback Machine hosted at Timepieces.nl. Accessed November 10, 2007.
  2. ^ Woodlief, Mark. Bodeco Trouser Press. Accessed November 10, 2007.