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Artist
Ray Bonneville
12+ albums
bluesfolkcanadasinger-songwriterBlues artist
about
Ray Bonneville (Born Raymond J. Bonneville on 11 October 1948) is a French Canadian American musician, singer and songwriter. Born in Canada, and raised in the United States, Bonneville is a folk and blues-influenced musician strongly influenced by the music of New Orleans, Louisiana. Bonneville calls himself a North American. Born in Canada, he moved to the Boston area in his early teens where he started playing guitar and harmonica. His career have seen him playing music throughout the world. Being a dual citizen allows him the freedom to live between Montreal, Canada and Austin, Texas. Bonneville is a distinctive artist, a man who cooks up a deep groove, blending a unique percussive electric guitar style, a weathered voice, and soulful rack harmonica into image provoking songs that can be believed. His thumb pulses and thumps, his index finger hooks and brushes out a melody, and his hand slaps the guitar for a snare-like effect. He sometimes uses a slide, always plays through a Fender tube amp, and brings his foot down on an amplified piece of plywood on the floor for added percussion. It is a powerful and visceral sound with a lot of forward momentum. "When I first heard good blues and country music I was very young, but I felt a deep stirring excitement within, which told me right then what to do with my life," says Bonneville, remembering his introduction to roots music in the Boston area during the early to mid 1960s. Over the next decade, Bonneville honed his sou
