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| | Member since | April 28, 2009 |
| Website | http://raywoodruffmusic.wordpress.com/ |
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| Location | Fredericksburg, VA |
| Members | Ray Woodruff |
| Influences | Billy Bragg, Richard Thompson, Ledbelly, Nina Simone, The Clash, Lightnin' Hopkins, The Pogues, Tom Waits, Eric Bogle, Django Reinhardt, Pete Seeger, The Kinks, Norman Blake, Kelly Joe Phelps, Old Blind Dogs, The Jam, Woody Guthrie, Van Morrison, Tracy Chapman, The Watersons, The Marx Brothers, Monty Python, George Mackay Brown, TS Elliot, WH Auden, Ernst Hemingway, Richard Linklater, Joseph Brodsky, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Wislawa Szymborska, Italo Calvino, Blind Blake, Jared Diamond, Terry Gilliam, Charles Baudelaire, Loudon Wainwright III, Stanislaw Lem, Philip K Dick, Joan Armatrading, Howard Zinn, Townes Van Zandt, Studs Terkel |
| Artist Biography: |
Ray Woodruff is an eclectic acoustic folk musician who likes to steal the shiny bits from various musical styles and use them to build on a foundation of country blues and the traditional music of the British Isles. Combining unique, lyrical and improvisational guitar work with a literate blend of historical and contemporary lyrical settings, he creates rambling, striving, searching stories that focus on sudden moments and single lives. Many of the characters in those stories are contemporary, working within the normal folk music frame of love, lost love and politics. But Ray's strong belief in history informing the present tends to enter into a number of his stories as well. A 14th century Italian artist can represent a modern artist's search for relevance. A traveling dancer during the great depression can voice the current struggles to get by. A worker pounding spikes on the Transcontinental Railroad can comment on the scams, swindles and fortunes of our era. His strong belief in improvisation means that no two performances come out quite the same - the intensity, the delivery and the guitar work shifting to adapt to the moment.
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