The Robber Barons were an alternative country band based in San Francisco, California (U.S.). Its members included Alex Holderness on bass, Nik Edwards on electric guitar (as well as banjo and accordion), Kevin Johnson on acoustic guitar, Jeff Kingman on drums, and William Earl on electric guitar, with Edwards, Johnson, and Earl sharing vocal duties. The Robber Barons's first extended-play release was Watch It Burn. They released two full-length albums, 2004's Dragging the River (Homewreckords) and 2006's Kerosene Communion before splitting in mid-2009.
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“We live by our imaginations, by our admirations, by our sentiments. The child walks amid heaps of illusions, which he does not like to have disturbed. The boy, how sweet to him his fancy! how dear the story of barons and battles! What a hero he is, whilst he feeds on his heroes! What a debt is his to imaginative books!”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)