River Cow Orchestra was born on the banks of the Missouri River during a Brother Iota concert at Cooper\'s Landing outside Columbia, Missouri. We had enlisted our previous bass player, Don McCarter to fill in for our usual guitar player, Don Rolling,and we had added a violin player, Michael Lagrega. The band we were opening for, C3 also had several guys filling in for regular band members. Brent Bowman and I realized that in order to play regularly we were going to have to hook up with some new folks and start another project. Don R. was coping with a new baby and Ryan Jones, our regular bass player was having to travel quite a bit. So we decided that Brother Iota would continue on when its members were available to play as a band, but Brent and I would start, and he asked me for a name here, and I said River Cow Orchestra, because we\'d just seen an unfortunate bovine floating by in the flood stage river. So here we are with bass man Allan McGinty, trumpeter E. E. Pointer, keyboards, flute and sax man Brent Bowman, and me, Greg Field on drums and theremin. Every song on \"Emerging\" is totally improvisational--no charts allowed. It\'s a peculiar mix of fusion, rock, jazz, and experimental music that\'s raw and fresh and recorded live in the parking lot of the SGI Center off of Broadway in Kansas City, Missouri. I think if you listen to it you\'ll buy it. I did.
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