⬇️ RAY REED ⬇️
Ray Reed's story reads like a history of the blues. Born in 1940 to
sharecropper parents in a small Texas town, he bought his very first
guitar with money he saved from working in the cotton fields.
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BIOGRAPHY
He learned about the blues from his uncle, his granddad, and from
listening to records on his grandma's Victrola. 1964 saw him playing gigs
all over Fort Worth in a band with his sister, Lady Pearl, and her
husband, Clarence Pierce.
Raising his 11 children took precedence over playing music, and in the
70's Reed put down the guitar and picked up a set of auto mechanics tools.
But the music never left his soul, and in the late 80's Ray again stepped
back onto the stage with Lady Pearl, and the two continued to play
together until Pearl's untimely death in 2002. But the family musical
connection continues in Reed's life; he currently plays in Lady Pearls BTA
Band, which features Pearl's daughter, Miss Kim.
It's a fascinating slice of not only local blues legend but Texas
history as well. But even if I had not just told you these things about
Ray Reed, you would sense them with one listen to Where The Trinity Runs
Free, his new release on Dialtone Records. The blues flow from his
fingers and voice. It's not just something he becomes when he steps up
to the microphone or picks up his guitar; it's who he is at his
core.