Skid Roper


Skid Roper is an American musician, most active in the 1980s and early 1990s. He has recorded with several groups including the surf band The Evasions but is best known for his work with Mojo Nixon between 1985 and 1989.
With Nixon, Roper was mainly a percussionist and also played mandolin, banjo, harmonica and other instruments.
Since parting ways with Nixon in 1989, Roper has released three solo albums. The first two albums had a much stronger country influence and were considerably less raucous than his work with Nixon. Roper also formed a surf band called Skid Roper and the Shadowcasters.
Roper's latest CD, Rock and Roll Part 3, was released in 2010. Ten years in the making, Roper plays the guitar, mandolin, organ, harmonica, percussion and whistling, sings each track and wrote all but one song.
In 2012 Roper contributed new music to volume ten and in 2013 to volume eleven of the compilation album series Staring at the Sun. In 2012 Roper became a member of the Hi-Tones, the backing combo for Andy Rasmussen, playing drums and mandolin on the 2013 album High & Lonesome: The Rise and Fall of Hilo.

Discography

Solo
  • Trails Plowed Under
  • Lydia's Cafe
  • Rock and Roll Part 3
With The Evasions£
  • Son of Surf!
With Mojo Nixon
  • Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper
  • Get Out Of My Way!
  • Frenzy
  • Bo-Day-Shus!!!
  • Root Hog Or Die
  • Unlimited Everything
With Action Andy and the Hi-Tones