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anyone in the photos. A few months later he got an email from Billy Schorling, who used to frequent Dizzy Duncan’s. He said he thought the band looked familiar. A couple of weeks later he saw their photo on a New Jersey club owner’s Facebook page and quickly told Knight the news. The band, now known as The Bad Land Band, was an eclectic group, described by lead vocalist Rich Gulya as “electric bluegrass.” The photographer is still unknown, but lead guitarist Richard Verge suspects it may have been New Jersey Stage his brother who lived near the club and was a semi-professional photographer. His brother died at a young age, so we may never know for sure, but it’s possible his camera and film may have been sold. Knight thinks it’s very possible Richard’s brother was the photographer, since many of the images feature him. Most of the time, it is more difficult to learn who the photographer was than to learn who the people in a photo are because the camera is pointing away. “In the case of The Bad Land Band, we September 2014 pg 62