The RFD

about

Dan and I (Fred) worked for Bell Telephone Laboratories in the late 1960’s. Dan was playing guitar in the stage band which entertained some 2,000 engineers each month in an auditorium which was very large and had superb acoustics. I joined the band several months later to play bass and banjo. At the same time, I was playing banjo in a Dixieland band called the Dixie Doodles. Dan and I started meeting during lunch times to “jam” on current folk rock songs, both of us playing guitar. It was a lot of fun. Later we discovered Russ as he was playing guitar in a “practice room.” He played in a style made famous by James Taylor and also Simon and Garfunkel. We began “jamming” together during lunch times, and began performing at the Bell Labs auditorium with a group called the Leather Suede. Our guitar styles greatly complimented each other. After a year of this, I began writing songs which were more Christian folk rock than the songs we had been performing up to that time. Russ, Dan and I broke away and formed our own group, RFD (Russ, Fred and Dan). We began to give concerts at Bell Labs, and churches in the Chicago area. One day we gave a concert at a large hospital, and became acquainted with Debbie. After that, we began giving larger concerts in auditoriums and also served as an opening group for “well known bands” doing concerts in the Chicago area. Eventually, we got a drummer (Larry) and a manager (Bob) to help arrange concert schedules. We became quite well known in the ar

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albums

Lead Me Home

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Dave Found a Bag of Pop, Volume 2

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stempel cd

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RIVERMAN FOLK SAMPLER 1

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Yoga Records Label Sampler

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Yoga Records Label Sampler 2010

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2008 Riverman Music Folk Sampler Vol.1

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Rising From Death

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More Road Songs

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Secret Santa (Part 3): Captain Sisko

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Riverman Music Folk Sampler vol.1

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THE WINDMILLS OF YOUR MIND W/ BRANDON MCMAHON - LOS ANGELES, 21.10.21

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