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Ralph White: bio
Ralph White
"What longtime Austinite
and former Bad Liver Ralph White puts on albums and onstage is so
mind-boggling and vast, it forces those of us in the description
business down a treacherous path" (Darcie Stevens, Austin Chronicle)
"White was a member of well-loved
punk bluegrass outfit Bad Livers, but his solo work is possessed of a
much more lonesome spark, exaggerating the implied drone at the heart of
the music of Dock Boggs and The Stanley Brothers...White plays wooden
six-string banjo, violin, button accordion and kalimba and his voice has
a high, eerie quality to it...extremely psychedelic"
(David Keenan,
The Wire UK)
One of our foremost instrumentalists and
a true hidden American treasure, Ralph White has taken the back roads
in his inspired pursuit of the ancient roots of music. The
"folk/noise/avant-whatever genius" (Joe Gross, Austin Statesman) has
made many strange travels as an itinerant musician and laborer. Thus
his intimate, nuanced musical language has slowly revealed itself, along
a path that meanders from the apple orchards of British Columbia to the
villages of Zimbabwe and Namibia, from the lonesome moors of Ireland to
Australia, Brittany, Peru, Louisiana and beyond. There is also the
influence of White's hometown of Austin, Texas, a rich musical
crossroads in and of itself.
