The Meat Purveyors Biography

The Meat Purveyors are an Alt country bluegrass band from Austin, Texas. The Meat Purveyors consist of Bill Anderson (an Austin Music Hall of Fame inductee) on guitar, Jo Stanli Walston on vocals, Cherilyn DiMond on upright bass, and Pete Stiles on mandolin. Founded in 1996, the band released five records on the Bloodshot label between 1998 and 2006. Bill Anderson and Jo Walston (who had previously collaborated as members of the band Joan of Arkansas) initated the formation of The Texas Meat Purveyors, and quickly drew Cherilyn DiMond, Pete Stiles and Nora Floyd into the project. In the spring of 1997, the Texas Meat Purveyors played a showcase at South By Southwest. A representative from Bloodshot Records was on hand, and after the showcase he offered the band a recording contract and they accepted. At this point, the band renamed themselves "The Meat Purveyors", to avoid infringing on the use of "Texas Meat Purveyors" by an actual meat purveying business that was also operating in Austin, Texas. In late 1997, the band released their first album on the Bloodshot label, Sweet in the Pants. In the summer of 1999 the band released More Songs About Buildings and Cows. However, by New Year's Eve 1999/2000, the band went on hiatus, announcing that they had broken up for good.

 

In September 2001, the Meat Purveyors regrouped and by the end of that year they released the new album, All Relationships are Doomed to Fail. In the summer of 2004, the Meat Purveyors released Pain by Numbers, their fourth album on the Bloodshot label. The Meat Purveyors released their most recent Bloodshot album, Someday Soon Things Will Be Much Worse!, in the summer of 2006.