Dexter Romweber

A unique, firebrand talent of American roots music, Dexter Romweber is best remembered as the leader, guitarist, and vocalist with the Flat Duo Jets, a two-man band who fused rockabilly, country, blues, jazz, surf, exotica, and other influences as they roared through their performances with enough energy to power a small city. Though Romweber was generally more interested in passion than precision, he was an inspired guitarist and songwriter with an appetite for music of all sorts (and a fine judge of cover material), and the Flat Duo Jets' self-titled debut album, issued in 1990, was a vital outline to his creative world view. After the breakup of the Flat Duo Jets, Romweber continued as a solo artist with eclectic efforts like 2004's Blues That Defy My Soul before he teamed with his sister Sara Romweber to launch the Dexter Romweber Duo with 2009's Ruins of Berlin.