Festival set
Edom Art Festival
Edom Art Festival Grounds · 8287 FM 279, Edom, Texas
An East Texas String Band Oddity
The Scrips
Danceable lo-fi Americana Sparse melodic drone-folk
On the calendar
Upcoming
The next places to hear or find The Scrips. Confirmed details are filed here; older dates move into the band history.
Outdoor set
The Forge — Outdoor Stage
The Forge Bar & Grill · 1589 FM 279, Ben Wheeler, Texas
Music
The songbook
Songs to read, play, and follow through the archive, with lyrics, chords, recordings, and set-list traces.
History
Band history
Shows, recordings, posters, photographs, and the ephemera left behind by an East Texas string band.
Field Notes
Everything else
Stories, observations, social fragments, and other trails worth following deeper into the archive.
Time
This 2019 single preserves an original song from a live KSIJ performance. Rather than polishing away the setting, the release keeps the radio-session character intact: a compact document of the repertoire as it sounded in the room and in that particular moment.
Music for the stand
Songbook selections
Lyrics, chords, sources, and small histories from songs The Scrips play. Useful at a show, at a kitchen table, or anywhere a tune needs following.
The light shelf favors quick fiddle tunes, bright harmonies, and the band’s warmer originals.
The dark shelf favors modal drones, hard stories, and songs with a little trouble in them.
Angeline the Baker
A bright old-time fiddle tune with a compact chord sheet for playing along.
Read + playMarybelle
An old-time-shaped story of a wrongful prison term and a reunion at the county fair.
Read + playTwo Loves
A Chapel Sessions original carried forward through years of playing.
Read + playJune Apple
A quick-moving tune from the working repertoire and the current video archive.
Read + playBanks of the Ohio
A riverside courtship turns into one of the old songbook’s starkest confessions.
Read + playAngeline
A darker, droning original preserved in rehearsal fragments and set lists.
Read + playFront Porch
A spare Chapel Sessions song with modal edges and a long life in the set.
Read + playShip and Anchor
A maritime tale of pursuit, storm, and wreckage, released live as “Ships.”
Read + play