Culpepper Express

THE BAND'S NAME COMES FROM A TIME TOWARDS THE END OF THE CIVIL WAR WHEN A BAND OF REBELS, LED BY COLONEL CULPEPPER, STOLE A LOCOMOTIVE FROM A UNION TRAINYARD JUST OUTSIDE OF PHILADELPHIA. A UNION TROOP TRAIN PULLED IN RIGHT BEHIND THE REBELS AND THE LOCALS BEGAN CALLING THE CHASE THE "CULPEPPER EXPRESS".

THE GROUP BEGAN WITH RICK SECOY AS A SIDEWALK MUSICIAN IN DOWNTOWN ELIZABETHTOWN, KY. RICK WAS THEN JOINED BY JEFF ALSIP AND THEY BECAME A DUO CALLING THEMSELVES "THE POET AND THE SCOUT".

THE PAIR THEN PICKED UP VARIOUS OTHER MUSCICIANS AND PLAYED AT THE BRANDENBURG SENIOR CENTER UNDER THE NAME OF "THE MEADE COUNTY ENFORCERS".

SHORTLY AFTER THE BRANDENBURG GIGS, DANNY ECKARDT AS DRUMMER AND DIXON WATFORD ON THE BASS GUITAR JOINED THE GROUP WITH THE NAME OF "CULPEPPER EXPRESS".

THAT WAS ALMOST TWO YEARS AGO.

THE BAND HAS SINCED BEEN JOINED BY ACOUSTIC GUITARIST AND SINGER JAMES STROUD.

CULPEPPER EXPRESS RELEASED THEIR FIRST ALBUM, TITLED" CULPEPPER EXPRESS" IN FEBRUARY 2017.