Friday, September 2, 2011 Akron native Ralph Carney releases "Serious" new album Horn player for Tom Waits and Tin Huey by WKSU's MARK URYCKI
Reporter Mark Urycki
The Serious album cover art is by notable NE Ohio cartoonist Derf.
Courtesy of Derf
Most rock music fans in the region are familiar with Patrick Carney - one half of the band, The Black Keys. But a few decades ago they would have known his uncle – Ralph Carney, the horn player for the new wave band Tin Huey.
Fans and critics like to use the word “wacky” when referring to him but Ralph Carney has a new album of fairly straightforward old jazz tunes coming out at the end of this month. He’s also making live appearances tonight in Cleveland and tomorrow in Akron. WKSU’s Mark Urycki has more on a guy who’s been called the King of the New Wave horn . . .
← Did you influence your nephew Patrick, of The Black Keys?
← Asked to sit in with Medeski, Martin, and Wood on second set
← Claims his grade school influence was jazz, not The Monkees
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Ralph Carney performs with The Lucky Tigers at the Beachland Ballroom in Cleveland tonight (9-2-11) and with other friends at the Highland Square Art festival tomorrow afternoon (5pm 9-3-11).
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