DESCRIPTION:
The Central Park Sheiks were a mixed influence band that formed in the early 1970s and released a single LP, Honeysuckle Rose.

The band members included Bob Hipkins (Dobro, Trumpet, Vocals), Matt Glaser (Violin), Richard Lieberson (Guitar, Vocals), Bert Lee (Guitar, Vocals), John Caruso (Bass) and Gary Burke (Drums).

The style they are most often associated with is urban and western acoustic swing music, but they played a great deal of country and folk inflected tunes, as well as original music by Hipkins, Lee and Lieberson.

The band toured many colleges in the Eastern seaboard during their years together, and had a very successful final performance at New York's Loeb Student Center in New York. While not widely known outside of the eclectic music scene, the band achieved notoriety in Japan.