Bill Ring
Trumansburg, New York, United States | SELF
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Available on Cdbaby.com, Itunes, Spotify, and most internet distribution sites:
Still On My Mind: Latest and best. Beautifully recorded in the sweetest-sounding barn in the Catskill Mountains, Still On My Mind features drums and percussion by Bob Lepre, acoustic and electric bass by Rusty Boris, fiddle by Brahm Stuart of Shaman, sax by Chuck Hancock, harmonies by Bibi Farber and Constance Taylor, and acoustic and electric guitars, harmonica, and vocals by Bill Ring.
Bill Ring and Friends: Strictly folk, mostly acoustic, including 6- and 12-string guitars, fiddle, mandolin, banjo, flute, harmonica, harmonium, percussion, and bass.
Beneath a Violet Sun: Dark newage weirdness beginning with a Quicksilver-esque rock number and ending with a 30+ minute sound sculpture featuring rain stick and assorted small percussion instruments. Only six songs, but an hour's worth of highly unusual music. Very different from his other albums.
Invisible Fingers: "Except for the Mehndi hand illustration by Loretta Roome, this CD is an exercise in solipsism. What I could play myself (guitars, harmonicas, vocals) I did; the rest (drums, keyboards, wind instruments) I programmed in midi.
You Are Here: The fourth and final album compiling Bill Ring's pre-millennium recordings, which were previously available only on private release cassettes.
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Since July, 2007 Bill Ring has lived in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, playing clubs and festivals in the area with some of the best local instrumentalists, including jazz/Americana bassist Joe Crum, and harmonica wiz Don Fenton. Playing together under the name Ironwood, they combine country, rock, and blues in a style all their own.
In 2002, Bill moved from New York City to a renovated barn in the Catskills, where he set up the recording studio in which he completed all five of his CD's. The first four compiled remastered versions of his earlier recordings. The most recent, Still On My Mind, was recorded and mixed in his new studio.
"The completion of Still On My Mind is the end of a creative and technical Odyssey that began with buying my first guitar at age 16 and getting my first sound-mixing gig as roadie for the Elephant's Memory in 1969. I've been writing songs, performing, and engineering ever since."
Bill Ring began playing in New York City in 1968. His first band, Another Country, was a folk-rock group that played mostly at the appropriately named Cafe Bizarre on Third St. in Greenwich Village. After 15 years of solo performing, Bill joined with Sally Eaton (of the original Broadway cast of Hair) and multi-instrumentalist Peter Pasco to form a new version of Another Country, featuring assorted acoustic instruments, three-part harmonies, and the considerable songwriting talents of all three. After Another Country, Bill began working with his backup band, Ironwood, which has included many well known NYC instrumentalists over the years..
Bill Ring has been heard live and recorded on NY area radio stations, including WBAI and WQXR, and on college and community stations around the USA.
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