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Fiddleworms are 'Putting Pieces Back Together' After Years Away from Music |
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By CHRIS WELCH
Entertainment Writer
The Huntsville Times - 09/22/05
In the mid-1990s, the worms were hopping. The Fiddleworms, that is. Working out of Muscle Shoals and taking their name from nightcrawler catfish bait, the Fiddleworms built a big following with their original rock music, adopted stage personae like Splash Fiddle (Russell Mefford) and Wolf Fiddle (Scott Kennedy) and traveling to gigs in an orange limo.
In '96, major record labels were interested and the band was on the verge of making it big when Chris Quillen, the founding guitarist of the band, tragically died in an auto accident on Memorial Day weekend. Rob Malone filled in admirably, and the group released an album, "Yellowhammer," played festivals all over the South and even shared the stage with the likes of Santana, Govt. Mule and the Allman Brothers Band. Still, the grief of Quillen's death remained over the group like a fog and things were never quite the same. By the end of 1998, the group - Mefford, Kennedy, Malone, Matt Ross and Chalmers Davis - had scattered across the South and the Fiddleworms were history. Now, they're back. |
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After Almost a Decade, the Fiddleworms are Back with 'Year of the Cock' |
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By Terry Pace
Entertainment Editor
The Times Daily 09/22/05 FLORENCE -- After almost a decade of subterranean silence, the 'Worms are wiggling their way back to the surface. The rock 'n' rollers known as the Fiddleworms -- a local group once hailed as one of the best unsigned bands in the country -- have regrouped, repopulated and revitalized themselves for a full-throttle musical encore. "It's a great feeling, man," Fiddleworms founder Russell Mefford said during a break in band rehearsals this week. "We put it away for a while because so much happened, and the feeling really wasn't there -- but now, we're back, and it feels just right." |
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