my biggest influence was THE FAT BOYS!! and then after that,ELVIS,the Beatles, Sun Ra, Devo,Captain Beefheart, Pere Ubu,all of the "Nuggets" bands.all "real" world music, not the new age kind....Morton Feldman,Bartok,Doc Boggs,Johnny Dodds, Hary Carney, Johnny Hodges, Coleman Hawkins, Albert Ayler,Jimmy Rodgers, the Memphis jug band,Rahssan,Roland Kirk!!!!!!,Danny Cohen.... Sol Hoopii, the Dillards, the Residents,Carl Stallings, Spike Jones,Ornette Coleman, Weather Report(the early stuff) Miles,Dylan,Roxy Music, Eno, Lester Young,Earl Bostic,Desmond Dekker, Bob Marley,Patsy Cline,Television,Talking Heads,Stravinsky,Django,Pharoah Sanders,Robert Wyatt, Duke Ellington,Soft Machine,Family, Eric Dolphy,John Coltrane,Mahler,Yma Sumac,louis armstrong, Can, the Shaggs, all song poem artist's(more later, you get the picture)
I am a multi-instumentalist,but mainly a sax and clarinet guy...i mess around ..s, lap steel, uke, and ethnic do- dads, was born in Akron Ohio in da 1950's...i have been playing professionaly since 1978 when my first band "Tin Huey" got a record deal with Warner brothers. I have since recorded and toured with "the B52's,Tom Waits" was in the Tom Waits "in concert" film "BIG TIME" and I have done countless recording sessions over the years with Oranj Symphonette,Jonathan Richman,Danny Cohen, Jim White, Victoria Williams, Galaxie 500, Elvis Costello,Chuck Prophet,Penelope Houston,Marc Ribot, Swollen Monkeys, "Carney,Hild,Kramer", Daeved Allen,Allen Ginsburg, Kathy Acker,Clarinet thing,Steve Yerkey,Tipsy, William Buroughs.I am on the new "Harry Smith Project" box set and the upcoming Tom Waits "Orphans" box set..although I didn't get no money from them!!! and countless others...(i will fill them in later) I have 3 solo records out, "Ralph Sounds" "I like you(a-lot)" and "this is Ralph Carney!" my current band'"Carneyball Johnson"HAS A NEW C.D.!! it is now available at C.D.BABY.COM p.s. yes, I am Patrick Carney's(the Black Keys) uncle!!!! I just recorded some tracks with them in Ohio, the record will be out in April of 2008.also, 2 spoken word recordings that I composed and played all the music, "the Stauffenberg cycle" readings by Ira Cohen music by me and "Really Creeley" readings by the late Robert Creeley with music by me, are available for downloading at 10 bucks a pop @ www.parisrecords.net.....I jut recorded and did a live film score with Black Francis, for the silent film"Der Golem" the record and maybe a dvd of the movie and score, will most likely be out sometime in 2008!!. I have a wonderful wife and daughter and live in a groovy neighborhood in S.F. life is good!!
....also,until we have the paypal thing going on our website"carneyballjohnson.com" you can write to us at "cbjinfo@akroncracker.com" and you can buy one there.....
hi ralph...was thinking of you yesterday as i was listening to 'i like you...alot.' that is one of my daughter's favorite albums. mine, too. thanks for all the songs...and inspiring her to morph her voice at times...wish you could hear our sing-a-long. so much fun! wishing you well and hope your fruit is as musical as always. a new drawing...'in the garden'...
We are finally ready to start promoting my 'I Surrender' single with my album, 'Ella Trip' coming right after -yey!! What d'ya think to the video teaser?
"DJ Monkey …soul-stirring, excitingly edgy music…just disturbing (read ‘mind-f**king’) enough to demand attention. There is a whole spice rack of auditory flavors here, served up like fractured poetry on a collection of intensely listenable Hallmark cards from Hell." Bill Margold, Cinema Seen, L.A. X..Press
EVENTS' PROGRAM @ KÜNSTLERHAUS STUTTGART
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5. November 2009, 15 Uhr
Michael Parsons: "Walk" performance somewhere in the city (precise informations will come later)
5. November 2009, 19 Uhr
Keith Rowe: Konzert und Gespräch / at the gallery
7. November 2009, 19 Uhr
The Great Learning - Paragraph 7, Dirigent: Jean-Jacques Palix / at the gallery
Ekkehard Ehlers: "Innocence" Konzert / at the gallery
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4 track EP, titled Call Signs, it provides the perfect introduction to
the band prior to the release of their debut album, Grappling Hooks, in
early 2010.
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