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River Music

by Ryan Lee Crosby

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With an intercontinental band, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Ryan Lee Crosby blends essences of American folk-blues and North Indian raga into meditative songs of impermanence, compassion and joy. Crosby’s music is a pleasing mix of improvised and composed material, performed on traditional and modern instruments.Through his recordings and performances, Crosby hopes to inspire peace, openness and respect - for tradition, for culture, for each other and for one’s self.

The result of years of study and practice, River Music integrates blues from the hill country of North Mississippi with textures of North Indian Hindustani classical raga. Crosby performs on electric 12-string guitar and chaturangui (the 22-string Indian slide guitar designed by Pandit Debashish Bhattacharya) and is joined by fretless guitar, tabla, harmonica and calabash (West African percussion). The raga influence is heard through the band’s hypnotic, almost trance-like motifs, and the blues seeps through Crosby’s dynamic vocals and masterful, single-line guitar melodies.

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released October 10, 2018

All songs by Ryan Lee Crosby, except for "Going Down South" (written by RL Burnside) and "Since I Lay My Burden Down" (Traditional African-American Spiritual)

Produced by Ryan Lee Crosby
Recorded by Elio DeLuca at the Soul Shop
Mixed and Mastered by Eric Carbonara at Nada Sound
Design by Kelbassas Panoptikum

Ryan Lee Crosby: electric 12 string guitar, voice, 22 string Chaturangui (Indian slide guitar), bass guitar, harmonium
Koushik Chakrabarty: tabla
Philip Kaplan: gui‘tarode
Danny Mekonnen: tenor saxophone on "Going Down South“
Jay Scheffler: harmonica
Grant Smith: calabash and percussion

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Ryan Lee Crosby is a Boston based musician, songwriter, producer and teacher.

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