Ralph Carney
San Francisco, CA
About
I am a multi-instumentalist,but mainly a sax and clarinet guy...i mess around on keys, lap steel, uke, and ethnic do- dads, was born in Akron Ohio in da 1950's...i have been playing professionaly since 1978 when my first band "Tin Huey" got a record deal with Warner brothers. I have since recorded and toured with "the B52's,Tom Waits" was in the Tom Waits "in concert" film "BIG TIME" and I have done countless recording sessions over the years with Oranj Symphonette,Jonathan Richman,Danny Cohen, Jim White, Victoria Williams, Galaxie 500, Elvis Costello,Chuck Prophet,Penelope Houston,Marc Ribot, Swollen Monkeys, "Carney,Hild,Kramer", Daeved Allen,Allen Ginsburg, Kathy Acker,Clarinet thing,Steve Yerkey,Tipsy, William Buroughs.I am on the new "Harry Smith Project" box set and the upcoming Tom Waits "Orphans" box set..although I didn't get no money from them!!! and countless others...(i will fill them in later) I have 3 solo records out, "Ralph Sounds" "I like you(a-lot)" and "this is Ralph Carney!" my current band'"Carneyball Johnson"HAS A NEW C.D.!! it is now available at C.D.BABY.COM p.s. yes, I am Patrick Carney's(the Black Keys) uncle!!!! ....also,until we have the paypal thing going on our website"carneyballjohnson.com" you can write to us at "cbjinfo@akroncracker.com" and you can buy one there..... my biggest influence was THE FAT BOYS!! and then after that,ELVIS,the Beatles, Sun Ra, Devo,Captain Beefheart, Pere Ubu,all of the "Nuggets" bands.all "real" world music, not the new age kind....Morton Feldman,Bartok,Doc Boggs,Johnny Dodds, Hary Carney, Johnny Hodges, Coleman Hawkins, Albert Ayler,Jimmy Rodgers, the Memphis jug band,Rahssan,Roland Kirk!!!!!!,Danny Cohen.... Sol Hoopii, the Dillards, the Residents,Carl Stallings, Spike Jones,Ornette Coleman, Weather Report(the early stuff) Miles,Dylan,Roxy Music, Eno, Lester Young,Earl Bostic,Desmond Dekker, Bob Marley,Patsy Cline,Television,Talking Heads,Stravinsky,Django,Pharoah Sanders,Robert Wyatt, Duke Ellington,Soft Machine,Family, Eric Dolphy,John Coltrane,Mahler,Yma Sumac,louis armstrong, Can, the Shaggs, all song poem artist's(more later, you get the picture)
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