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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