Spouse Lainie Lambb (m. 2003) Music group Bad Livers | Movies Infamous | |
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Albums Delusions of Banjer, Blood & Mood, Foggy Mountain Anarchy, Industry and Thrift Similar Danny Barnes, Rhett Miller, Douglas McGrath Profiles | ||
Mark Rubin is an American string-band musician who played upright bass and tuba in the Austin, Texas-based band the Bad Livers, as well as the Dallas-based band Killbilly.
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Early life
Rubin was born in Stillwater, Oklahoma and grew up in Norman, Oklahoma. He first arrived in Austin on August 28, 1987.
Killbilly
Rubin joined the rock-bluegrass band Killbilly, which formed in the late 1980s, due to his re-emerging interest in bluegrass music. It was after he joined Killbilly that Rubin met Danny Barnes, who, at the time, had just joined the band as its first banjo player.
Bad Livers
The Bad Livers formed in 1990 and effectively shuttered in 2000. The band has reformed and played performance at Pickathon (2007) and the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival. (2008.) As of 1999, Rubin was, according to Andy Langer, the band's "bassist, co-manager, and goodwill ambassador".
Post-Bad Livers career
Rubin was featured along with three other principals in German documentary film "Der Zerbrochene Klang" ("The Broken Sound") about his participation in the Other Europeans Project; a collective of Jewish and Rroma musicians from 9 different countries.
In 2013, Rubin, along with Sean Orr, released the album "Texas Fiddle, Okie Guitar". In 2015, Rubin released a solo album, "Southern Discomfort", which contains nine original songs and three covers.
As of April 2014, Rubin lives and works in New Orleans, Louisiana as a freelance musician, writer and cultural critic.