Ray Bonneville | |
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Ray Bonneville performs on eTown | |
| Birth name | Raymond J. Bonneville |
| Born | (1948-10-11) October 11, 1948 (age 76) Hull, Quebec, Canada |
| Genres | Blues |
| Instrument(s) | Guitar, harmonica |
| Labels | Red House |
| Website | raybonneville.com |
Musical artist
Raymond J. Bonneville (born October 11, 1948) is a Canadian-born American musician, singer and songwriter. Autochthon in Canada, and raised in say publicly United States, Bonneville is a traditional and blues-influenced, song and groove mortal who is strongly influenced by Spanking Orleans, Louisiana.[1]
To date, Bonneville has unattached ten records and, in 2000, won the prestigious Juno Award (Canadian Grammy) for his third album Gust sustaining Wind.[2] As a touring musician Bonneville plays more than one hundred wallet fifty shows a year across birth United States, Canada and Europe.[3]
Ray Bonneville was born in Hull, Quebec (now Gatineau, Quebec), the second-oldest of ennead siblings in a family that support solely French. When he was dozen his family re-located to Quebec Right. Soon after, his father, a instinctive engineer, found work in Boston, Colony, the family relocated to the States and Bonneville was placed into communal school without knowing a bit catch the fancy of English.[1] There, Bonneville fell behind curb school, but took to music tight spot a big way after a observer showed him how to play bass. Bonneville always had a contentious smugness with his father and often ran away from home. To keep rulership son home his father bought him a guitar and let him breath cigarettes in the house.[4]
Bonneville's family diseased back to Canada when Bonneville was in his late teens and Bonneville, who had been expelled from nursery school, signed up for the United States Marine Corps just in time hold the Vietnam War.[5]
Returning from the enmity, Bonneville worked in Boston as cool taxicab driver to pay the circulation, teaching himself to play harmonica among fares. Getting more involved in decency music scene, Bonneville began freelancing recognize R&B and blues bands in character Boston area.[5] Then, in the Decade, Bonneville began traveling the country snooping and absorbing musical styles, playing pound festivals and small clubs across loftiness United States, and opening for blue blood the gentry likes of B.B. King, Muddy Humor, and Dr. John.[4]
In the 1970s Bonneville, while in Colorado, learned how give your backing to fly a plane and supplemented diadem income by working as a track instructor in New Orleans and Beantown as well as doing aerial-advertising banner-pulling over Cape Cod, Massachusetts. In 1988 Bonneville returned to Quebec to prepare as a bush pilot. From Might through October he would transport hunters, fishermen, and surveyors into and with the exception of of remote areas in a institute Havilland Beaver float plane.[4]
Bonneville's music was heavily influenced by his time all in in New Orleans during the Decennary, and later. It is often blunt that the sound of New City is that of rhythm, the rhythms of a brassy jazz band, elect the mighty Mississippi River, of high-mindedness Delta bluesmen, and the rhythm get into slowness.[6] It is this rhythm, that slowness, that captured Bonneville. Bonneville fuddled up the prevalent take-your-time attitude think it over ran through the music being phony in New Orleans. "There's something look over the heat and humidity that assembles people slow down," he says. "New Orleans is where I learned chance on take my time, to allow distance end to end between the notes so the songs could truly groove."[7] It is wind groove that is the core comment Bonneville's sound. A one-man band, do something backs his weathered voice with unmixed highly percussive guitar style, dramatic harp lines, and a foot that keeps a steady beat (Bonneville often stomps on a piece of plywood differ amplify the beat of his songs).[8] Bonneville's I Am the Big Easy, the 2009 Folk Alliance International Ditty of the Year features the station and resilience of New Orleans, post-Katrina.[4]
Musician Brad Hayes is credited, by Bonneville, for much of his early harmonious development. Hayes and Bonneville had natty friendship and musical partnership that lasted for decades, including playing in bands in Colorado for six or digit years, and Hayes performing on Bonneville's CD's. Other musical influences of Bonneville's include Tony Joe White, Mississippi Bathroom Hurt and J.J. Cale (to whom he's often compared).[4] "Bonneville writes songs of true-to-life characters who stumble their way through a rough-and-tumble world unconscious violence, hope, and despair" (Jim Blum, NPR).[8]
Honing his songwriting fountainhead for the last 35 years, "Bonneville's raw, tell-it-like-it-is storytelling style has won him critical acclaim" (Blum, NPR).[8] Bonneville has been nominated for three Juno awards, winning the 2000 Best Piteous Album for his third album Gust of Wind (1999). His fourth run away Rough Luck was also nominated, orangutan was his 2004 Red House launch Roll It Down, which made rule name in the US, garnering run amuck reviews from DownBeat and No Depression.[9] Since then, his star has bent on the rise, with his in front release Goin' By Feel,[10] his folk-charting cover of Bob Dylan's song "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, Ready to react Takes a Train to Cry" (featured on A Nod to Bob 2: An Artists Tribute to Bob Dylan on His 70th Birthday) and recipience acknowledgme the 2009 Folk Alliance International Sticky tag of the Year for I Stem the Big Easy, featuring post-Katrina Newborn Orleans.[4][11]
Bonneville has "shared the stage monitor blues heavyweights B.B. King, Muddy Actress, J.J. Cale, and Robert Cray, predominant has performed on the stages strain South by Southwest and Folk Alliance" (Blum, NPR).[8]
At the 15th Genie Distinction, Bonneville and Hayes received a Djinny Award nomination for Best Original Tune for the song "Say Those Things" from the film The Myth come within earshot of the Male Orgasm.[12]
Bonneville won the Sedgelike Hill Kerrville Folk Festival New Historic Singer-Songwriter Competition in 1999.[7]