Adbloyt Abashi Only Love Is Equal CD

Matt Dean is a musical prodigy who is best known as a jobbing and studio musician in Toronto. As a youngster, his versatility as a vocalist, keyboardist, trombonist and percussionist had won him many ...

3WBHM, Birmingham, Alabama's NPR affiliate. Ron was nominated for a 2008 Birmingham Area Music Award (BAMA) in the Americana category, and also performed at the awards ceremony, sharing a stage with such luminaries as Rolling Stones keyboardist Chuck Leavell. He is a repeat performer and perennial favorite at the Frank Brown International Songwriter's Festival on the Gulf Coast, where songwriter Austin Church (who has written songs recorded by Del Reeves and Lyle Lovett and has co-written with Jimmy Buffett) had this to say: "Very listen-able!he paints pictures with his music". Ron also performed in City Stages 2006 and 2007, a world-class music festival in Birmingham, AL, backed by his band Broken Hill. He has recently completed his seventh full-length CD entitled Railroad Avenue. Previous titles are: Broken Hill Ballet and Repertory Company (2006), Young Souls and Old (2004), The Grander Scheme of Things (2002), A Midnight Snowfall (2002), A Place With No Name (1999), A Good Mechanic (Is Hard to Find) (1998). Born to a second-generation immigrant family in Pittsburgh, PA, he moved to the Deep South at an early age, by way of a brief stay in Brisbane, Australia. Exposure to such varied cultures has left him with a sideways view of the world that becomes evident in his songs, which stylistically resemble short stories, complete with offbeat characters and plot twists. The music is delivered in fairly sparse arrangements with a strong presence of acoustic fingerstyle guitar, drawing on stylistic influences ...