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 Johnny Mercer.
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.
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Raymond Creasy, musician, songwriter, artist, & instrument maker, playing acoustic guitar, bouzouki, banjo, flute, together with Sue Lukens, on mandolin, guitar, and flute feature original and traditional songs in folk, celtic, alternative, jazz, blues, new age, and bluegrass styles.
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 became a duo about 10 years ago. Together, they've recorded 8 CDs, the latest entitled Fusion. Their Mountain Serenity DVD has a soundtrack CD as well as a VHS version, 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, 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. Raymond and Sue have performed at the Ozark Folk Center in Mtn. View and make trips from home in Van Buren County to Nashville to write with friends. Making videos has become our newest form of artistic expression together, most recently producing a music video entitled new trends on youtube.com, which depicts Raymond's art show this past August.
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 has painted in a representational style, depicting the beauty of nature and respect for the people who carved a living from the countryside. He calls the latest style of painting, which are abstracts lines and shapes with amazing color, Fusion painting. 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.
REVIEWS
Raymond Creasy is a songwriter and musician, an entertainer and a
storyteller. His performances are distinguished by a sense of completeness.
The songs and stories intertwine, the music and the humor flow
together...and, through the warmth and music extended to them, shared with
them, the audience is drawn into the movement and feeling of the
evening. -Jane Sanderson, Memphis Commercial Appeal
A musical jewel, Sandy Miller Hays, Arkansas Democrat
Multi-talented, rippling banjo fingerwork, Delores Ballard, the Jackson Sun
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Show Dates and Lyrics
Fusion Art - brand new paintings by Raymond shown at the Fresh Air Gallery, Clinton, AR August, '06.
Art from Nature - paintings by Raymond shown at the Fresh Air Gallery, Clinton, AR August, '06.
See Porcelain Pottery by Sue
Quit Smoking & Insect Repellant
Wooden Flutes
Link to Legacy Herbs Home
Link to Banjo Billy, Old Time Fiddler
Ripplin'Banjo Fingerwork CD - an anthology of original songs over 30 years of banjo playing and recording.
Fusion CD - Raymond Creasy
Light in Your Eyes 
(Creasy, Jaworowicz, Tucker-Galactic Warrior Pub., ASCAP) Catfish Pond (Creasy, Daniel: John Paul Daniel Music, ASCAP).
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, 
David Katz - Vocal, bass, rhythm guitar; Chuck McGill - Rhythm guitar, saxaphone, vocal; Fred Winn - Vocal; Bill Lusk - Bass, vocal; Rick Malchow - flute, rhythm guitar.
Our most celtic collection with some whistle; three tunes are vocal arrangements.