Tom V. Ray
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Tom V. Ray is an American bassist[1] living in Chicago. He was born in 1965, and grew up on a farm in Vincennes, Indiana.
Ray’s professional musical career began in 1983, when he began performing with local
slap bass technique. Ray toured in Europe
for a year with the Big Mess Blues Band following the release of its self-titled debut album in 1990.
Subsequently, Ray moved to Chicago and began collaborations with many of that city’s leading musical lights, including
the Mekons, the performance artist Brigid Murphy, and Poi Dog Pondering’s Frank Orrall. In 1991 he started the Chicago underground jug band Devil in a Woodpile with Rick Sherry, and in 1993 co-founded the Bottle Rockets with Brian Henneman. Ray was also a founding member of the Langford-helmed combos the Waco Brothers and the Pine Valley Cosmonauts
.
From 1997 to 2008 Ray was the first chair
Grammy-nominated album Middle Cyclone. Ray’s first solo album, featuring the musician on ukulele
, is scheduled to appear in the fall of 2010.
References
- ^ Living blues. Center for the Study of Southern Culture, The University of Mississippi. 1999. p. 100.
This acoustic Chicago trio features Rick "Cookin"' Sherry on vocals and harp or washboard, Paul K on guitar, and Tom V Ray on upright bass, ...