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Artist
ralph gean
12+ albums
countryrock n rollguitar-pickin teabagfolkacoustic
about
Ralph Gean has been writing, performing and recording his own unique variety of off-beat Rock, Rockabilly and Country songs since the late 1950s. As an early ‘60s contemporary of first-wave Rock n’ Roll acts like Roy Orbison and Glenn Campbell, Gean achieved a measure of regional success in Texas, cutting several 45s and receiving vigorous support from local radio. Unfortunately, just as he was rising to what was sure to be national stardom, The Beatles stormed America, and the “British invasion” that followed all but eliminated the market for Gean’s home-grown Rock n’ Roll, causing his career to fall-apart almost overnight. In the three topsy-turvy decades that followed his brief brush with rock-stardom, Ralph Gean experienced all of the following: he tried his hand at both college and stage-acting; moved to Utah, joined a Mormon splinter-sect and became a polygamist (living in a desert shack with multiple wives); had several children; was excommunicated from the Mormon church; held a seemingly endless series of menial jobs; got divorced; sought treatment for depression; became homeless (earning food money by playing his guitar on the street); got involved with an illegal counterfeiting ring (which was busted by the feds); fronted a number of short-lived Rock, Rockabilly and Country acts in the Utah/Wyoming area; and finally became the live-in caretaker to the millionaire heir to a mining fortune in Denver, Colorado. Throughout all of this, Gean continued to write and recor
top songs
albums
a star unborn
Boyd Rice Presents: The Amazing Ralph Gean - His Music, His Story
The Amazing Ralph Gean - His Music, His Story
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Boyd Rice Presents: A Star Unborn or what would have been if what is hadn't happened: the amazing story of: Ralph Gean
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You Can't Beat Gas!
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Boyd Rice Presents: Ralph Gean - A Star Unborn
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The Amazing Ralph Gean: His Music, His Story
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The Unscratchable Itch: A Tribute to Little Fyodor
His Music, His Story
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The Amazing Ralph Gean - His Music, His Story (The Sun Sessions)
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Multicolored Jam / Sea of Heartbreak