Review of Kenny Blue Ray by fan Randy Walker
Kenny Ray
Hello all: Just wanted to say I had the chance to catch Kenny Blue Ray
live at a local club and he is SMOKIN'! Had the audience jumpin' from
the word go. A must see show for anyone who loves the blues! It has
been a long time since I have seen someone play with the intensity and
emotion that Kenny Ray has. His TONE was incredible. Kenny was playing
through a 35 watt custom made amp that nearly tore the walls off the
place.
He played all sorts of rippin' blues tunes from all the Kings, John Lee
Hooker, and Sonny Boy Williamson. Even played a couple of SRV's songs.
If I didn't have my eyes open, I would've sworn it was the man himself!
Picked up a couple of CD's from the show ("Pull the strings" and "Strat
Daddy") and they are both GREAT! If you play guitar you need these
CD's. Also, I got the chance to speak to Kenny briefly between sets
about his rig and his guitars, and I have to say, he is one of the
coolest musicians I have met in a long time. Not many people would take
the time between sets to talk tone with ya.
8^)~
Randy
R. Baldwin
Kenny, I don't know how many accounts you have to try to pull off this
fantasy. I have been reading your posts and thinking well maybe he is
the real deal. But this last raving review from Randy came from your own
e-mail address. Now isn't that strange???? Do you have an answer to this
one???
Kelly Massey
On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, R. Baldwin wrote:
> Kenny, I don't know how many accounts you have to try to pull off this
> fantasy. I have been reading your posts and thinking well maybe he is
> the real deal. But this last raving review from Randy came from your own
> e-mail address. Now isn't that strange???? Do you have an answer to this
> one???
Come on, Mr. Baldwin. The header says only that the review was posted
through Kenny Ray's account. What's the big deal? So Randy doesn't have
an account & wants to speak his mind. So Kenny let's Randy sit at his
machine a while & read up & respond. What's so strange????? I've posted
from my mom's account when visiting her -- does that mean she's not for
real? Oh dear. Then who am I?
As for Kenny Ray's imprint on the blues -- he's made a good one. For as
much as he admits that he's standing on the shoulders of giants, if you
listen to the range of stuff that he's put out, you can hear his own unique
vibe running through his tunes. Sonny Boy has one. Jr. Wells has one.
Lazy Lester has one. Bo Diddley has one. Stevie Ray & Jimmie Ray each
have one. Kenny Ray has one. It's deeply inspired by the giants; it's
still singular and wa-a-a-a-ay cool.
Kenny Ray is generous with his acknowledgements of the giants, with his
music, with his stage, with his support of other musicians & I hardly think
one person's motivation to post his review using Kenny Ray's account is
cause to call him into question.
All due respect, who are you to judge anyway?
Kristin Laurena Steyer
Actually, correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe this Randy post about
the Kenny Blue Ray show was originally posted onto the texasflood
mailing list BY RANDY FROM RANDY'S ACCOUNT! All Kenny did was post it
to the blues newsgroup since there were a few questions about him and
his playing lately. Anyway, hope I cleared something up. By the way,
to those that don't already know, texasflood is a mailing list devoted
to discussion of Stevie Ray Vaughan and his legacy. Anyway, no flames
please, if I"m wrong I apologize, it just looked rather familiar to
me.
Soul 2 Soul-
Kristin:)
"The blues won't hurt you none.."
--Jack Davis
Kenny Ray
Yes, I posted this accurate review but sure as Hell didn"t write it.
If you don"t want to just don"t read it. Randy Did post it on Bit list
serv Blues l & Texas Flood (SRV)
KBR
Kenny Ray
You are Right,
It was By Randy, in the Texas Flood, news group.I just wanted
to mention it on another NG.
Forgive me.
Kenny blue Ray
R. Baldwin
Kenny Ray wrote:
Right Kenny, maybe he wrote the review about your performance with
Curtis Slagado???? Those who can, do, those who can't just sit at their
computers boasting about themselves all of the time. It just gets
sickening is all, but I continue to read thinking maybe someday the
light of day will shine on through.
Kenny Ray
R. Baldwin,
Get A life,
I have been on Guitar, Rhythm, and Lead 39 years, pro Over 30,
If you think not review what the Critics say @
http://home.earthlink.net/~blueray/
otherwise Shut up! or get your Guitar and lets see who is the Man, and
who is Jivin!
Kenny Blue Ray
R. Baldwin
I have a life, which, judging from how much time you sit at the PC
talking about yourself, you DONT! And, as for your challenge, I will cut
heads with you anytime if you want to hear what a real blue strat sounds
like...
And, by the way, I'm still waiting to hear about the gig with Curtis,
because until you back up that lying bullshit, everything else you say
is nothing else but.
Oh, and bye the way, your web page proves nothing...I could do the same
page having never touched a guitar!
RCB
Tom Hathaway
R. Baldwin wrote:
>
> I have a life, which, judging from how much time you sit at the PC
> talking about yourself, you DONT! And, as for your challenge, I will cut
> heads with you anytime if you want to hear what a real blue strat sounds
> like...
A public forum is not the place to air out this type of antagonistic
debate. It appears, Mr Baldwin that you have never heard of Kenny
'Blue' Ray or his music before you jumped on this forum. Kenny 'Blue'
Ray has four albums out - how many do you have? Sorry, but I've never
heard of you!
You can hear two cuts from Kenny 'Blue' Ray's album, "Pull The Strings"
along with a brief bio on the January 19 editon of Maximum
Blues-Internet Radio. The show is archived on the AudioNet site. I
suggest you listen first - then make your antagonistic accusations. At
least, you will know what you are talking about!
You can find Maximum Blues internet radio at:
http://ww2.audionet.com/jukebox/maxblues.htm
or
www.audionet.com choose "CD jukebox" select "blues"
You need a soundcard and a 28.8 modem. AudioNet has links to no charge
RealAudio software.
Make a request to the Request Line and you'll be entered in our draw to
win a 2-CD set of "Go Fever" from Garry & The Moodswingers and "Well
Travelled" from the RedHot Blues Band.
I hope you give it a listen. Thanks.
Tom Hathaway
--
Tom Hathaway "too lazy to work and too nervous to steal"
T-Bone Walker
Maximum Blues - Internet Radio
(heard on AudioNet at
http://ww2.audionet.com/jukebox/maxblues.htm)
P.O. Box 315
Prince George, B.C. Canada V2L 4S2
ph / fax: (250) 967-4257
R. Baldwin
You seem to miss the point, I don't care how good he is. What I care
about is his making false claims, which I and others have PROVEN, in
order to sell his CDs to suckers like you. By the way, I have recorded
four albums with a band called Antix and made a living at music for 10
years. Oh, and I am the world's greatest guitarist with the world's
greatest tone and whatever anybody thinks, I know it all. Do you like
the way that sounds? Maybe you do and you want to buy one of my CDs???
It works for Kenny.
Stephane Boucher
Tom Hathaway <tom_ha...@mindlink.bc.ca> writes:
> A public forum is not the place to air out this type of antagonistic
> debate. It appears, Mr Baldwin that you have never heard of Kenny
> 'Blue' Ray or his music before you jumped on this forum. Kenny 'Blue'
> Ray has four albums out - how many do you have? Sorry, but I've never
> heard of you!
I don't think a musician who has albums is necessarilly better than a
musician who has no album.
Personnally, I've never heard Kenny. So I don't know if I would like
his playing. Maybe he is great. That's not the problem.
The problem is that Kenny tries to market himself a bit too much.
This is a group to discuss blues music. So I don't like to read every
week something like:
"I got the tone man!"
"I'm the real deal"
"I'm a real bluesman unlike such and such guys"
etc...
That said, I would like to make some suggestions to Kenny:
1) Put a one or two liner in your signature to point to
your web page, and leave the marketing to that only.
Of course you can then put as much stuff as you
want in your page.
2) Please clarify the story related to you working
with Curtis Slagado (whoever that might be). Did you
perform with him or not? Did you say you performed
with him? People are saying that you are making this
up. You should set the record straight.
I hope that Kenny will consider my suggestions.
We can then go back to be one big happy familly :-)
--
,
Stephane Boucher, ing s...@nortel.ca
- NORTEL - Tel: (613)763-9778
Bell-Northern Research / Recherches Bell-Northern
Tom Hathaway
R. Baldwin wrote:
>
> You seem to miss the point, I don't care how good he is. What I care
> about is his making false claims, which I and others have PROVEN, in
> order to sell his CDs to suckers like you
Sorry Baldwin, you missed the point. This forum is not the place to air
out your free-floating hostilities towards Kenny 'Blue' Ray. You are
not the policeman - nor the judge and jury. We can all come to our own
conclusions about Kenny 'Blue' Ray without any assistance from you,
thank you very much.
> By the way, I have recorded
> four albums with a band called Antix and made a living at music for 10
> years. Oh, and I am the world's greatest guitarist with the world's
> greatest tone and whatever anybody thinks, I know it all. Do you like
> the way that sounds? Maybe you do and you want to buy one of my CDs???
Sorry again, Baldwin. Even though I live more than 1600 miles away from
San Francisco (and in another country), I had heard of Kenny 'Blue' Ray
before I joined this newsgroup. Somehow I missed hearing anything about
you! Perhaps Antix did not make the earthshaking impact on the music
industry that you thought it did.
I still hope you check out my radio program - I'm not a doctor but
somehow I feel that listening to music with do you good. Maybe you can
direct all that anger toward something constructive.
All the best,
Tom
Kelly Massey
On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, Tom Hathaway wrote:
> A public forum is not the place to air out this type of antagonistic
> debate. It appears, Mr Baldwin that you have never heard of Kenny
> 'Blue' Ray or his music before you jumped on this forum. Kenny 'Blue'
> Ray has four albums out - how many do you have? Sorry, but I've never
> heard of you!
Actually, that's five with another on the way -- the last is on the same
label that carries the likes of Hubert Sumlin..... Baldwin is simply way
out of line.
>
> You can hear two cuts from Kenny 'Blue' Ray's album, "Pull The Strings"
> along with a brief bio on the January 19 editon of Maximum
> Blues-Internet Radio. The show is archived on the AudioNet site. I
> suggest you listen first - then make your antagonistic accusations. At
> least, you will know what you are talking about!
>
> You can find Maximum Blues internet radio at:
>
> http://ww2.audionet.com/jukebox/maxblues.htm
> or
> www.audionet.com choose "CD jukebox" select "blues"
>
> You need a soundcard and a 28.8 modem. AudioNet has links to no charge
> RealAudio software.
>
> Make a request to the Request Line and you'll be entered in our draw to
> win a 2-CD set of "Go Fever" from Garry & The Moodswingers and "Well
> Travelled" from the RedHot Blues Band.
>
> I hope you give it a listen. Thanks.
>
> Tom Hathaway
>
Barry Silverberg
Kelly Massey (krma...@best.com) wrote:
: On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, Tom Hathaway wrote:
: > A public forum is not the place to air out this type of antagonistic
: > debate. It appears, Mr Baldwin that you have never heard of Kenny
: > 'Blue' Ray or his music before you jumped on this forum. Kenny 'Blue'
: > Ray has four albums out - how many do you have? Sorry, but I've never
: > heard of you!
: Actually, that's five with another on the way -- the last is on the same
: label that carries the likes of Hubert Sumlin..... Baldwin is simply way
: out of line.
Which label is that?
Barry
Timothy A. Sandstrom
>> R. Baldwin wrote:
>> What I care about is his making false claims, which I and others
This statment is just lame.
Kenny Ray is a fine musician. He plays the guitar sincerely,
and he doesn't need to prove anything. I've played for 20 years
myself, I know a quality guitar when I hear it.
Mr Baldwin, have you even HEARD Kenny play? I've met the man,
shook his hand. He's decent, softspoken and self-effacing.
I've got some of his CD's and they are a *joy* to listen to.
If you like the blues, go see him play. This slaggin' people
on the net is lame.
- Tim Sandstrom
A real Kenny 'Blue' Ray fan, not a fake account, not on the payroll,
not an A&R person, not a blues club owner, not marketing type,
just a fan.
http://wk122.nas.nasa.gov:80/~sandstro/home.html
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