Fusion - Raymond Creasy
Creek Walk features "Millennial Guitar," a suite of guitar rambles that accompanies trickling, sparkling rivulets and waterfalls carved by time. "Cry of Wolves" echoes elemental flutes and guitar high above a valley from atop a bluff carved with caves. Snow Shadows catches the timeless beauty of a snowfall, with two compositions, reprised from Blind Fiddler, "Travis' Lullabye" and "Cody's Theme." Acoustic guitar, bass, and a thrilling violinist, classically trained in Poland, transport the spirit to indescribable improvisational musical bliss. Water Spirits is a mesmerizing duet of flutes set to the sound of running water, near Blanchard Springs, with a glimpse of elusive otters. Walking upstream towards the Springs' cave mouth, the lilting flute, mandolin, guitar, and bass play "Jamaica," brought back from Shamrock Sampler. VHS version and CD music version available as well. 40 min. long. copyright 2005.
Light in Your Eyes - Raymond Creasy
Original songs in bluegrass style.
Raymond: Vocals, acoustic guitar, banjo, dobro, harmonica, bouzouki, mandolin, bass. Sue: Vocals, mandolin, penny whistle, piano. copyright 2002 Galactic Warrior Publishing.
Light in Your Eyes (Creasy,/Lusk-TurtleTunes,ASCAP);Harmony (Creasy,Lusk:/Turtle Tunes Music,ASCAP) Was I Dreamin' (Creasy,Daniel:HighSteppe Music,ASCAP/ Kingston Springs Music,ASCAP/ Medders-Acuff-Rose Music,Inc.,BMI/ Locust Fork Music,BMI/&Doug Pincock Designee, BMI) Home in Tennessee
(Creasy, Jaworowicz, Tucker-Galactic Warrior Pub., ASCAP) Catfish Pond (Creasy, Daniel: John Paul Daniel Music, ASCAP).
Shamrock Sampler -Raymond Creasy & Sue LukensRetrospective
Raymond Creasy's original folk music from 1978-82, remastered to digital.Wandering Man, Too Many Differences, Black Bottom Strut, Favorite Son of Society, Company Man, Yellow Springs March, Ropes That Could Bind Me, Five String Gigolo; Things That Will Be, Bohemian Rag, Decatur County Blues, Laundramat Breakaway, Wild Mountain Wind, Home Sweet Home, Mary Ann, Fishers Hornpipe, Honorable Discharge Shuffle, Decatur County Boy, Decatur County Boy Part II, Lost in the Flatlands, Colorado Song, I Want to Go Home, Never Looking Back, Uncle John's Reel.
©2002 Galactic Warrior Pub. ASCAP/John Paul Daniel Pub. ASCAP also on Colorado Song, Bohemian Rag & Laundramat Breakaway.
Traditional tunes: Black Bottom Strut, Fishers Hornpipe, Home Sweet Home.Raymond-Vocal, banjo, guitar, mandolin, dobro, harmonica, dulcimer, recorder, pocket comb; John Jaworowicz - Bass; Sam Elrod - Bass; Randy Wilkes - bass, mandolin, vocal, electric guitar; John Paul Daniel - Rhythm guitar, vocal, kazoo, handclaps; Ned Davis - pedal steel, rhythm guitar, vocal; David Katz - Vocal, bass, rhythm guitar; Chuck McGill - Rhythm guitar, saxaphone, vocal; Fred Winn - Vocal; Bill Lusk - Bass, vocal; Rick Malchow - flute, rhythm guitar.
Shamrock Dreams: Raymond Creasy & Sue Lukens
Our most celtic collection with some whistle; three tunes are vocal arrangements.
Hewlett; Monday Morning; Flowers of Edinburg; Seamus O'Brian; In Christ There is No East or West; Star of the County Down; Planksty Irwin; Red Haired Boy; Fiddler's Green; Cattle in the Cane.
R. Creasy: Vocals, guitar, mandolin, Irish bazouki, tambourine, drum. S. Lukens: Vocals, mandolin, keyboard, flute, penny whistle, drum. Allison Lukens: Penny whistle. Debra Davis: Penny whistle on Flowers of Edinburgh , cello. All traditional songs. Artwork by Raymond Creasy ©1998.
a Legacy of Herbs:
Sue Lukens & Raymond Creasy
This features Sue's singing and playing with Raymond's supporting instrumentation.
Wild Mountain Thyme; English Country Garden; Johnny's Gone for a Soldier; Come All Ye Fair & Tender Ladies; Simple Gifts; Scarborough Fair; One Morning In May; The Ash Grove, She's More to be Pitied Than Scolded; Danny Boy.
Sue Lukens: Vocals, mandolin, dulcimer, & guitar. Raymond Creasy: Guitar, bass, banjo, dobro, harmonica, & bouzouki. Artwork by Raymond Creasy. ©1996 .
Blind Fiddler & Other Favorites: Raymond Creasy
Original jazzy bluegrass with outstanding fiddle.
Blind Fiddler; Travis' Lullabye; Hard Luck Boy; Old Cowhand; Not Part of the Show; Cody's Theme; Alone at the Top; My Way Home.
Raymond Creasy: vocal, guitar, banjo, mandolin, dobro, recorder; Waclaw Kozlowsky: violin; Dr. John Jaworowicz: bass, vocals; Warren Haynes: vocals; Tony Migliore: piano. ©1999 Galactic Warrior Publishing, ASCAP. My Way Home co-written by John Paul Daniel; John Paul Daniel Publ., ASCAP. Old Cowhand by Irving Berlin.
ONE NIGHT IN JUNE, Raymond Creasy, Recorded live: John Hardy, Little Maggie, Worried Man Blues, Devil's Dream(traditional folk songs); Original songs: Jamaica, Hymn For Guitar, New Trends. Raymond Creasy - guitar, banjo, vocals; Waclaw Kozlowskky - violin; J.C. Bonds - guitar, vocal; Susan Hazelwood - acoustic bass; Robbie Henderson - electric bass.
Live at the Ozark Folk Center: Just the two of us, switching instruments; half are instrumentals.
Hand Me Down my Walkin' Cane; Blackberry Blossom; Railroad Boy; Hewlett; Sweet Heaven; Little Maggie; Arkansas Traveller; Devil's Dream; Scarborough Fair; Last Steam Train Blues; John Hardy. Raymond on vocal, guitar, banjo and bazouki; Sue on vocal, mandolin & guitar. copyright, 1999.
DAVE & SUE: Sue Lukens & Dave McKellep. Ozark traditional folk music with vocal, mandolin, dulcimer, banjo, guitar, bass. English Country Garden, I'll Rise When the Rooster Crows, The Wagon Yard, Whiskey Before Breakfast, Soldiers Joy, Copper Kettle, Arkansas Traveller, Way Downtown, Mystic. copyright 1992.
Raymond Creasy grew up in the rural Tennessee traditions of folk, bluegrass and country music, becoming Tennessee banjo champ while still a teenager. He expanded his musical horizons while living in Memphis, playing with blues legends, beat bands, and rock and roll groups. At the same time, he was a graphic artist and songwriter.
Silver Hawk, The Lick Creek Band, The Flying J Wranglers, Toad Suck Symphony, are a few of the groups he's played with in the past. He's toured throughout the Midwest and West, and became a regular performer at the Cowboy in Durango, and the Chuckwagon in Ruidoso, and hosted a weekly TV program in New Mexico, "Mountain Musical."
Raymond and Sue have performed at the Ozark Folk Center in Mtn. View and makes trips from his home in Van Buren County to Nashville to write and record. He and Sue became a duo about 10 years ago. Together, they've recorded 6 CDs. Their new DVD has a soundtrack CD as well as a VHS version, called Mountain Serenity, mastered on Sue's G5 MAC. Their previous collection is "Light in Your Eyes," an all original bluegrass collection, not necessarily traditional. Raymond starting making flutes about 7 years ago. Previously Raymond had recorded 6 albums of his own compositions. Three of these recordings, done between '78 and '82, recently were remastered to a CD, "Retrospective." Sue recorded one previous collection of folk music, "Dave & Sue," and played in the Dixie Darlings, and Legacy. A native Kansan who's lived in Arkansas 15 years, Sue grew up singing at church and talent shows, playing piano, flute, and guitar, and added mandolin and mountain dulcimer as an adult.
As a sign artist, Raymond's elegant lettering and accurate depictions can be seen throughout northcentral Arkansas. Examples include a mural of downtown Leslie, cherubs, chickens, fish, ducks, at any scale. Much of his oil, acrylic, watercolor and drawing exhibitions have been in Ruidoso, NM, Memphis and Jackson, TN. He paints in a representational style, depicting the beauty of nature and respect for the people who carved a living from the countryside. His latest pieces are abstracts lines and shapes with amazing color. A few fine art commissions include a baptistry painting at White Water Church, and the Old Bay Cafe's wall mural, both in Mtn. View. Raymond's artwork graces the covers of many of our CDs and cassettes.
A musical jewel, Sandy Miller Hays, Arkansas Democrat
Multi-talented, rippling banjo fingerwork, Delores Ballard, the Jackson Sun
Art from Nature - paintings by Raymond to be shown at the Fresh Air Gallery
See Porcelain Pottery by Sue
Quit Smoking & Insect Repellant
Wooden Flutes
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