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Tag Archives: casey ruff
Album Review: Casey Ruff and the Mayors of Ballard LP
Casey Ruff – “Casey Ruff and The Mayors of Ballard” LP (self-released, January 2022) The “Casey Ruff and the Mayors of Ballard” LP makes me feel a little drunk. Casey Ruff’s growl makes it ok to feel woozy and warm, … Continue reading
Album Review: The Cupholders Present . . . “The Wisconsin Polka!”
Supergroups are strange beasts. Jann Wenner claims that Cream, with members from the Yardbirds, the Graham Bond Organization, and John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, was rock’s first supergroup – soon to be followed by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young; Blind … Continue reading
Ball of Wax 54 Songs: The Cupholders – “Tiki Cup”
If you’re in need of some woozy, booze-soaked catharsis, then “Tiki Cup” is your new jam. This sounds like Crazy Horse feeling their way through a half-remembered Bo Diddley song after some serious day-drinking. The Cupholders are a sort of Ball … Continue reading
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Tagged casey ruff, sam russell, The Cupholders, the foghorns
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Ball of Wax 36 Songs: Casey Ruff – “A Broken Heart’s Immortal”
Bart recently wrote that Casey Ruff has a “unique form of charisma where when the person gets up on stage, you know it’s performance time, you know it means something,” heaping deserving praise on Ruff’s affable stage presence, equal parts Johnny … Continue reading
Ball of Wax 36: June 7, 2014
Posted in Ball of Wax, Live Music
Tagged casey ruff, greenhornbluehorn, sun tunnels, tenderfoot, the foghorns, Town Forest
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Attempting to Capture Lightning: Casey Ruff and the Mayors of Ballard
Casey Ruff – Pomp and Circumstance (2014, self-released) You know Casey Ruff before you know him. The honest bartender, the dude who looks the same at 2 AM as 11 AM, who will speak freely, and humorously, at any time. … Continue reading
Drunken Prayer, Casey Ruff, Friday at Conor Byrne
There is a long-awaited show to take place tomorrow evening at the Conor Byrne Pub in Ballard. Ball of Wax alumnus (featured on Volume 10, according to my research) and all-around local luminary Casey Ruff will play with cohorts The … Continue reading
Casey Ruff and Sunset Tavern’s Memorial Day Weekend Show: Sunday May 29
I hate to interrupt the Northwest FolkLife love, and the Sasquatch hype, but Ballard’s putting its own foot into the Memorial Day weekend music scene, and in a refreshingly appropriate way. Casey Ruff and a number of the more straight-ahead … Continue reading
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Tagged caleb and walter, casey ruff, memorial day, Rachael Mae, sunset tavern, The Smoke Brothers
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