B Gale: acoustic guitars 7 or 6 string archtop, classic or flattop, mandolin, mandola, violin (except Blue Tango) or bass guitar. Electric guitar, midi controller, percussion and instrumentation on 'Blue Tango' by guitar midi controller. Stella: John Dana, bass.
Influences
The sounds of nature and sounds of people, in actual fact, playing musical instruments. I imagine that our distant ancestors found their voices to speak and their voices to sing at about the same time. Music must have been integral to their understanding of the meaning of life, as it is to us. The human voice is the greatest instrument but we always sought others. We have been inventing them every since that earliest time.
Ever musical sound tells me something: to know and to do or to try; to know not to do or not to try. Honest sounds speak for themselves.
Sometimes it is composition while you wait (an improvisation):
Select 'HQ' in the player lower right menu for stereo.
Welcome, this page tells you something about yours truly as a musician. It is also tells of world musicians I have encountered whom I believe have something interesting to say.
I have spent much of my musical life as a working musician in support of other's projects, especially the last twenty years, and for now have only a small thread of my own music to offer. Some of the musicians who have joined me here have large, even huge projects to present, some are long time friends, others are recent discoveries, either way there is great talent. After a thirty five plus year career playing music for a living (you play because you must even if the living is humble), never having had a day gig; paying a whole mess of dues: club gigs, stage gigs, symphony gigs, opera gigs, orchestra pit gigs (way too many Broadway type shows), studio gigs, road gigs, sometimes (but not for so long) too few gigs; standing in the shadows holding up someone else's star, the so described celebrities, the definite want-to-be-s, the likely never-to-be-s, I am finally getting back to where I started (and would have stayed all along if they hadn't found out I could read their music and be beguiled by their paychecks, such as it all was), back to playing the music in my own heart and mind. I am free at last!
Ruby Jane and Mark O'Connor: Virtuosos of the American Fiddle: http://www.poptech.org/blog/mark_oconnor_and_ruby_jane_smith_virtuosos_of_american_fiddle
Ruby Jane Article in New York Times!! http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/26/who-do-these-guys-think-they-are/ AND Check out the new pictures and video! Let me know what you think! Ruby Jane
GRACIAS POR ACEPTARNOS BENNYGALE, ES UN PLACER COMPARTIR CONTIGO ESTE ESPACIO. TE INVITAMOS A QUE VISITES NUESTRA PÁGINA. ENCONTRARAS TEMAS DE ECOLOGÍA SOCIAL, INDÍGENAS DE HOY, CONSUMO RESPONSABLE, SALUD INTEGRAL, PSICOLOGÍA Y EDUCACIÓN. Y NOS DEJES TU COMENTARIO, QUE ES MUY VALIOSO PARA NOSOTROS.
Hey Benny, Thanks for your comment..I have several guitars but, the hand made ones right now are by Gabriele Ballabio (Italy) www.liuteriaballabio.com and Jimmy Foster (New Orleans) www.fosterguitars.com
Actually it is and I hate the pop song on my site. But its strictly to show my voice for the time being while I work on my demo. Did or do you work with Stefan?
