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Richard Ray Farrell & Steve Guyger
2+ albums
bluesacoustic bluesharmonica blues
about
Richard Ray Farrell Some people live to make money and some people make money to live. Some people are music lovers, some people are amateur musicians, and then again some people live and breathe music. They are the "real deal", so to speak. Richard Ray Farrell is one of them. He has not only mastered the art of singing and playing the blues - he has literally "lived" the blues for years and years. Born in Niagara Falls, New York in 1956, Richard Ray left his hometown only two weeks after graduating from high school and backpacked his way through Europe, not knowing at the time that music would be his destiny. More than thirty-five years on the road as a traveling blues musician was to give him substantial credentials as a top-notch talent in the world of the blues. Richard Ray started as a street musician or “busker” in Paris, France in 1975. Totally fascinated with the music of Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson and other legendary blues players, Richard played for hours on end in the halls and tunnels of the Parisian “Metro” subway, scraping out a living as a musician, literally a "po' boy long way from home.” Little by little, Richard worked his way up from the subways andstreets of cities throughout the continent, eventually forming his own band and going on to perform on some of the largest and most prestigious stages in Europe, together with some of the true giants of traditional American blues music. In 1978, Richard received an offer to front a blues-rock band in Spai
