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CASHMAN

raucous Mississippi juke-joint music

About Me

Ray Cashman – Slide man Gabby Brown - Harp manLord knows good bluesmen are hard to come by nowadays. When I first saw these musicians, the voice, the slide guitar, the harp, all of it touched me deep down in my heart where home used to be. It filled a hunger I didn’t even realize was there until I heard what they had to offer. Then BOOM! The music was there feeding me.Simply stated, these musicians take me there and back with these blues, and it’s exactly where I can’t help but go. They call it “Texasippi Blues” and it’s just what it’s billed – a little bit of Texas – a little bit of the Mississippi Delta. It’s a perfect menu for folks starvin’ for real music that we have not heard a lot of lately. Something far, far away from the slick, made-up, perfectly coiffed stuff served on radio and T.V. these days that passes for music. It’s jumpin’. It’s downhome and gritty. It’s lazy. It’s foot stompin’ on a Saturday night. It’s barbecue at a blues festival. It’s easily all of that in one sitting.This music is not crowded with a lot of extraneous instrumentation or fancy musical trickery. It’s just Ray Cashman & Gabby Brown, simple and to the point, giving a longstanding art new life. Yet, there’s plenty there that harkens back to the past; something rising up from the ashes upon which popular opinion burned its bridges long ago. It touches you even when you’re not expecting it and opens up a forgotten avenue, a refurbished alley, a revamped highway. A new old place to go.It’s songs you know they lived out somewhere along the line. You can tell nobody had to write their songs for them – their songs ARE them.Lyndia T. Day Austin, Texas

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Member Since: 11/3/2005
Band Website: raycashman.com
Band Members: Ray Cashman-electric guitar, vocals, Shoeless Doug ,Josh Gore, Eric Keeble, Rude Boy - DRUMS
Influences: anything that has real emotion and heart.
Sounds Like: Texassippi stomp
Record Label: 219records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

cd review

Speaking of house rockers, the second band from my friends at 219 Records simply call themselves Cashman, after the guitar-, dobro-, and bootbox-playing vocalist Ray. Accompanying him on the harmonica...
Posted by CASHMAN on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:42:00 PST

Rambles Cultural Arts Magazine

Cashman, Texassippi Stomp (219 Records, 2007) Not for the faint of heart is Cashman, purveyor of full-frontal downhome blues, as subtle as a tornado funnel or an artillery blast. On Texassippi Stomp...
Posted by CASHMAN on Tue, 22 May 2007 04:03:00 PST

green arrow radio

Call it raw like a freshly opened musical wound, or perhaps you might give it the name of back porch delta swamp blues where you can feel the mosquitoes dancing on your skin. Either way, this album i...
Posted by CASHMAN on Tue, 22 May 2007 04:00:00 PST

texassippi stomp

we got signed by 219 records out of new orleans la. and I want to thank Jimbo ,olga and Tyler for everything they have done to help us along the way.The new cd is titled Texassippi Stomp and will hit ...
Posted by CASHMAN on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 08:35:00 PST

New songs

4 new songs are up and running
Posted by CASHMAN on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 02:37:00 PST

new recording

we finished recording 11 new songs with Jimbo Mathus. Recorded @ The Money Spot in Oxford MS.I'l try and get some mp3 up once I figure out how to.I want to thank Jimbo and Winn McElroy for the fine jo...
Posted by CASHMAN on Sun, 15 Oct 2006 07:54:00 PST

3,666 miles

We just got back from our trip thru midwest. 3,666 miles we drove in the caddy rained like hell most of the time, but the shows went pretty well and we made enough to make it back to austin, so all is...
Posted by CASHMAN on Wed, 15 Mar 2006 08:55:00 PST

Sedan Deville

Just bought a new cadallac, well actually a 10 year old caddy, but only has 29000 miles on it. Taking her on her first road trip thru midwest in March. Kinda like the blues bros. hopefully with out th...
Posted by CASHMAN on Wed, 22 Feb 2006 10:37:00 PST