小简介
Tarnation由Paula Frazer成立于1992年，他们的作品主要由4AD出版。最初Tarnation只有Frazer一个人，1993年负责*夏威夷吉他的Brandan kearney加入，同年Brent Johnson也加入了Tarnation。不久之后Michelle Cernuto, Lincoln Allen ，Matt Sullivan相继加入了Tarnation，使乐队实力大增。1993年，在Kearney的厂牌Nuf sed Records下发行了他们的第一张专辑I’ll Give You Something to cry about。1995年，在完成了专辑Gentle Creatures的录制之后Cernuto, Allen 和Sullivan三人离开了乐队，同年4AD发行了这张专辑，这张专辑中包含了一些I’ll Give You Something to cry about中的一些重新制作的歌曲。很快，Frazer就协同吉他手Alex Oropeza负责贝斯和*夏威夷吉他的Bill Cuevas和鼓手Joe Byrne重组了Tarnation。
1997年，贝司手Jamie Meagan 加入了乐队，一行人开始录制专辑Mirador
1997年，在Mirador发行之后乐队就解散了，Frazer 开始了他的个人巡演生涯，Orapeza和Byrnes组了新乐队，名字叫做Broken Horse
The country art band Tarnation was essentially a vehicle for Paula Frazer, a talented singer and songwriter who returned to roots music only after a successful foray into 1980s post-punk. Frazer was born and raised in Sautee Nacoochee, GA, a tiny community located in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains, where as a child she sang in her fathers church choir, developing a remarkably adept soprano. At the age of 14, the Frazers moved to Arkansas, where she began performing with local jazz groups.
After graduating high school, Frazer relocated to San Francisco, where she followed a stint in a Bulgarian womens choir with tenures in a number of area punk groups, most notably the all-female Frightwig. In 1992, she formed Tarnation with former S.F. Seals members Lincoln Allen and Michelle Cernuto, along with steel guitarist Matt Sullivan. Setting their dark ballads and love songs against a stark, ominous backdrop dominated by reverb-soaked guitars, Tarnation debuted in 1993 with Ill Give You Something to Cry About. In 1995, they issued Gentle Creatures, their first LP for the arty British label 4AD. Shortly after the records release, Allen, Cernuto, and Sullivan left the group and were replaced by guitarist Alex Oropeza, drummer Joe Byrnes, and bassist/lap steel player Bill Cuevas.