Trusty was a punk

Punk rock

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...

 band that formed in Little Rock, Arkansas

Little Rock, Arkansas

Little Rock is the capital and the largest city of the U.S. state of Arkansas. The Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 699,757 people in the 2010 census...

 in 1989. The band moved from Little rock to Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....

 in 1992. They disbanded in early 1998.

The Little Rock Years

In 1989, the original Trusty line-up released the "A Name to Depend On" 7" on Soma Records. They followed this up with their self-titled first LP on Truant Records out of Memphis, TN. Truant pressed only 1,000 copies of the record, but it was re-released on CD with bonus tracks on Truant as The Paul Years - A Trusty Retrospective. In the Spring of 1992, the band recorded their "Cockatoo" 7" with Josh Bentley (of The Big Cats and Substance) on bass, before relocating to the Washington D.C. area.

In 1994 and again in 1999, the original four members of Trusty reunited and played shows in their hometown of Little Rock AR. This lineup (Bobby Matthews, James Brady, Bircho, and Paul Bowling) reformed in 2004 for work on a CD featuring two new tracks and a collection of unreleased out-takes called "SUGAR SMACK" released on Max Recordings.

The D.C. Years

Between 1992 and 1996 Trusty worked to gain respect and recognition from the established D.C. punk rock scene. In the Summer of 1992 Trusty (now residing in Washington D.C.) recorded the "Kathy's Keen" 7", on De Soto Records with their original drummer Bircho. In the Fall of 1992 with new bassist Brad Long

Brad Long

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 (formerly of the Memphis

Memphis, Tennessee

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 hardcore band Sobering Consequences) and steady drummer Jim Schaffer (formerly of Washington D.C. based band Senator Flux)Trusty continued touring and writing songs for their upcoming full length CD Goodbye Dr. Fate

Goodbye, Dr. Fate

Goodbye, Dr. Fate is an album by the punk rock group Trusty, and released by Dischord Records in Washington, D.C..Less cryptic than The Fourth Wise Man, which the group recorded two years later, Goodbye is lighter, with a more conventional pop sound. The title is presumably a reference to the comic...

 as well as several Compilation CDs. Goodbye Dr. Fate was completed in the Winter of 1994 and released in the Spring of 1995. After extensive touring, Trusty released another full length CD in 1996 named The Fourth Wise Man also on Dischord Records

Dischord Records

Dischord Records is a Washington, D.C.-based independent record label specializing in the independent punk music of the D.C.-area music scene. The label is co-owned by Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson, who founded Dischord in 1980 to release Minor Disturbance by The Teen Idles...

 and continued to tour within North America & Europe.Four years after their move from Little Rock, Trusty became the first band not originally from Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....

 to be signed by Dischord Records

Dischord Records

Dischord Records is a Washington, D.C.-based independent record label specializing in the independent punk music of the D.C.-area music scene. The label is co-owned by Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson, who founded Dischord in 1980 to release Minor Disturbance by The Teen Idles...

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In early 1998 Trusty disbanded. Bobby Matthews now sings and plays guitar in the Memphis-based band Dragoon, along with former Grifters members Tripp Lamkins and Stan Gallimore. Jim Schaffer has been playing drums with the Baltimore punk rock band National razor

National Razor

National Razor is an American punk rock band that formed in 1998 in Baltimore, Maryland. Influenced by Stiff Little Fingers, The Clash, the Ramones, they experimented with New Wave and hardcore...

since 2002.
Coming Full Circle

In 2008 Trusty signed with Record Label DC-Jam Records to re-release their first songs ever recorded. The CD is appropriately titled "DEMO".