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Lewis Ray Cammarata
11+ albums
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"Slip and slide along the wild and wily blues highway with talented guitarist Lewis Ray Cammarata. Fun, fast, and at times furious, his playing's up and down the blues-music map, nodding in the direction of Ry Cooder as well as surf maestro Dick Dale, Tom Waits, and even moody soundtrack man Ennio Morricone." Courtesy of the editors at Download.com FROM NOWHERE'S-VILLE TO HELL ON EARTH Commonly referred to as the armpit of the east coast, Baltimore in truth is but the left pit, Newark, NJ being the right. Growing up in the post war, neo-suburban row houses of East Baltimore, Lewis Ray Cammarata, like most of his fellow Baltimorons, viewed the Ed Sullivan debut of The Beatles as the godhead of escape; learn to play guitar, get women, amass untold riches, and eventually move into a house that wasn't connected to nine others. From 1964 through 1974 he honed his skills as a guitarist in innumerable bar bands. It wasn't until 1975 that he came to the realization that, the early drug fueled days of pre 1970 distortathon, psyche fests aside, the last four years spent studiously slumming through the banality of top 40 clubbing from Boston to Flint, MI, to Cocoa Beach, FL, to Columbus, OH., descended into a suspension of musical adventurousness, setting in like a blanket of West Baltimore steel smelting smog. The explanation for this was quite simple: He was now making a living at playing music. Upon arriving in Los Angeles in 1975, the onset of the burgeoning Punk Rock/ New Wave