The Meat Purveyors were an American alternative country bluegrass band from Austin, Texas, United States.
The Meat Purveyors consist of Bill Anderson[1] (an Austin Music Hall of Fame inductee[2]) on guitar, Jo Stanli Walston on vocals, Cherilyn diMond on upright bass, and Pete Stiles on mandolin.
The Meat Purveyors have a wide range of influences, as evidenced by the variety of artists that they pay tribute to in their recorded covers, including songs by Ronee Blakley, Nick Lowe, ABBA, Foreigner, The Human League and Ratt.
[4] In Austin, Texas, during the summer of 1996, Bill Anderson (now in Austin's Captain Beefheart-influenced Churchwood[5]) and Jo Walston (who had previously collaborated as members of the band Joan of Arkansas) initiated the formation of The Texas Meat Purveyors, and quickly drew Cherilyn diMond, Pete Stiles and Nora Floyd into the project.
In September 2001, the Meat Purveyors regrouped, and by the end of the following year they released the new album, All Relationships are Doomed to Fail.