MUSIC,MUSIC,MUSIC!!!
Playing guitar & mandolin with...
The SUN BLEACHED SKULLS (with my friends Rob Smith & Ken Workman)& Pancho & Lefty (with my son-in-law Greg Harris) from time to time.
I am a something of a pack rat! I collect GUITARS,vintage fans,vinyl,old music magazines,and looking around the house I see I'm starting to accumulate a selection of cowboy hats as well.
Some things that intrigue me are - Lincoln Town Cars (although I don't currently have one),family history, music trivia and history,the unexplained, and life in general...
Music
In no particular order...
All the Sun Records guys (JOHNNY CASH, Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, Elvis ,Jerry Lee Lewis,Charlie Rich, etc.), Hank Williams, BUDDY HOLLY and the Crickets, GRAM PARSONS, CHRIS HILLMAN, The Beatles, THE BYRDS, Robert Johnson,The Rolling Stones, Ian Tyson, Bob Dylan, Clarence White, Steve Earle, TOM RUSSELL, Fred Eaglesmith, James Burton,Townes Van Zandt, EMMYLOU Harris, Rodney Crowell, Steve Young, Waylon Jennings,Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Buck Owens, John Hiatt, Linda Ronstadt, Ronnie Hawkins, Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran,The Everly Bros.,The Louvin Bros., Willie P. Bennett, Ray Charles, Van Morrison, Muddy Waters, Lucinda Williams, The Maddox Bros & Rose, Flatt & Scruggs, Bill Monroe, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band,Jim Lauderdale, Jimmie Rodgers, Wilf Carter, Blue Rodeo, Murray Mclauchlan, Gordon Lightfoot, Kevin Welch, The Band, Roy Buchanan, Eric Clapton, J.J.Cale,Chris Smither, Johnny Rivers, Gary Stewart, Joe South, a lot of pedal steel players (Speedy West, Sneaky Pete, Buddy Emmons,Al Perkins,etc. etc)...good Lord there's soooo much more!
Movies
Old silent stuff...Buster Keaton, William S. Hart...old B&W stuff...Audie Murphy westerns...all the Die Hards...The Graduate...Cool Hand Luke...Birdman of Alcatraz...Ed Wood films...Deliverance...The Shawshank Redemption...Walk The Line...The Last Picture Show...anything with Vincent Price and Peter Lorre...John Wayne westerns...
Television
Coronation Street...Law & Order + Law & Order SVU...All In The Family...The Fugitive(the original not the remake)... the original Star Trek...Leave It To Beaver...Austin City Limits...The Twilight Zone...Holmes on Homes...I guess I don't watch a lot of TV...hate most reality type shows...
Books
lots of biographies & historical stuff...anything by Colin Escott...Angela's Ashes...No Depression magazine,Oxford American magazine...I'm blanking...I'll add more later
Heroes
in no particular order...Audie Murphy, Buddy Holly, Wilf Carter, Chris & Gram, Don & Phil...
About me: I was born Raymond Austin Harris on May 6/1960 in Bowmanville,Ontario although I spent my early years living in the country near Shawville, Quebec - and later mostly in Ottawa with a few return trips to Shawville along the way.
I am father to 3 (count 'em!)lovely daughters - twins Holly & Angela who are now 27 and Forrest who is 17. Thanks to Angela, I am also grandfather (jeez!) to Cassidy who is 5.
In Sept 2004 I did a really smart thing and married the lovely & talented Michelle who is truly my best friend in the world!
Who I'd like to meet: I'm mostly S.O.L. on this one 'cause most of my favourite people are dead...or I've already met them...
Hey! I thought of somebody I'd like to meet...The Crickets, Chris Hillman, Guy Clark, James Burton, Scotty Moore,Betty Page,Wanda Jackson...
Hey Ray I'm very glad you found my site on myspace. You have one of the coolest pages I've seen - I love the photo collections and I'd probably be willing to hurt someone smaller than me to have some of those guitars of yours:)
