Fredericksburg Songwriters' Showcase Ray Woodruff

ray woodruff 02 2014

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 lyrics, 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 travelling dancer
during the great depression can voice the current struggles to get by. A
worker pounding spikes on the Transcontinental Rail road 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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