Ray Manzarek & Roy Rogers
Ray Manzarek, co-founder and keyboardist of The Doors and member of the Roc… Read Full Bio ↴Ray Manzarek, co-founder and keyboardist of The Doors and member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and Roy Rogers, world renowned slide guitar master and Grammy winning producer, have collaborated on a new CD entitled Translucent Blues. Go get yours with an exlusive artist offer at www.manzarek-rogersband.com - orders will filled after the holiday week-end, as we are on the road finishing the Eastern tour - so thanks for your patience!!

These virtuosos have combined their artistry to produce a release that skillfully weaves rock, blues, and a tinge of jazz into an innovative tapestry. Brimming with soul, intensity and creative energy, Translucent Blues was inspired by the writings of poets such as Jim Carroll, Warren Zevon and beat Michael McClure. This compelling album features songs with multi-layered arrangements, stylistic depth, and solid driving grooves.

Ray Manzarek said of the album, "This is a head-first dive into American contemporary Blues. Roy and I take the unique art form of the Blues and add a 21st century twist to the genre. We are working with a group of great American poets: Michael McClure, famed beat and close friend of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsburg; Jim Carroll of 'The Basketball Diaries' fame; Warren Zevon - the 'Werewolf of London' himself; and Michael C. Ford, noted L.A. jazz poet and good friend of Jim Morrison's. Their lyrics are superb, succinct, now, and salient. What Roy and I have weaved around their words are songs that are not standard 12 bar, but do, in fact, live and breathe in the dark, underground world... of the Blues! 'Translucent Blues'"

Roy Rogers added, "This collaboration with Ray was a joy from start to finish. We found inspiration not only from the music and lyrics, but most of all from each other--to create a great sound. To me, the blues is as complex a music as it gets--either you feel it or you don't. But when you add the spice of some of these lyrics, it definitely takes you on a different route. Take a ride with us."

At the Blind Pig website you will also find a free download of "Blues In My Shoes," a track from the new release. On the Ray/Roy website www.manzarek-rogersband.comyou will find an exlusive offer from the artists - and on the ITUNES website you will find a full LP Feature.


Ballads Before The Rain by Ray Manzarek & Roy Rogers

Review by Jim Allen

What do you get when you put former Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek up alongside guitar wizard Roy Rogers (not the cowboy star)? You get BALLADS BEFORE THE RAIN, an evocative, reflective duo release that features Manzarek's piano interacting simply and effectively with Rogers' guitar. The bill of fare is all-instrumental, and includes some Manzarek originals, a Satie piece, and yes, a couple of reinterpreted Doors classics, “Riders on the Storm” and “The Crystal Ship.” Even some 40 years after the Doors, Manzarek's angular, visceral style is still immediately identifiable, but when it crosses paths with Rogers's unearthly slide work and gutsy twang it ventures into new territory, a crossroads where jazz, New Age, and classical meet.
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Ray Manzarek & Roy Rogers Lyrics


Riders On the Storm Riders on the storm Riders on the storm Into this house we'r…


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Choose Up And Choose Off Left side, right side, which side is your side? North side,…
Downbound Train I found myself on a bar room floor I had drank…
He Can't Come Today When will we see him, where will we find him? How…
Riders On The Storm Riders on the storm Riders on the storm Into this house we'r…
Solar Boat We’re gonna take a little ride on the Solar Boat Bring…
The Dance Get up and dance to the music! Get on up and…
The Golden Scarab Amenhotep-Akhenaten-Nefertiti-Tutankhamun All of life is su…
The Purpose of Existence Is? Do you think the purpose of existence is to pass…


We have lyrics for these tracks by Roy Rogers:





A Four Legged Friend A four legged friend, a four legged friend He'll never let…
A Gay Ranchero Roy: Aahh una tarde a solas con mi libro favorito…
A Man And His Song Koshish karde aan jiddan da likhde aan tuhade samne hi…
Along The Navaho Trail Every day, along about evening When the sunlight's beginning…
Baby Please Don't Go Baby please don't go Baby please don't go Baby please don't …
Blue Shadows On The Trail Shades of night are falling As the wind begins to sigh And…
Build For Comfort Some folk built like this, some folk built like that…
Cool Water All day I've faced the barren waste Without the taste of…
Cowboy He always sings raggy music to the cattle As he swings…
Cowboy Night Herd Song On night guard, I'm a ridin' 'Round a thousand bedded steers…
Don Oh give me land, lots of land, and the starry…
Don't Fence Me In O give me land, lots of land, and the starry…
Dust Sometimes you dream, sometimes it seems There's nothing ther…
Dusty Sometimes you dream, sometimes it seems There's nothing the…
Empty Saddles There's something strange in the old corral There's a breeze…
Four Legged Friend A four legged friend, a four legged friend He'll never let…
Happy Anniversary I've watched the gold in your hair turn silver And the…
Happy Trails Some trails are happy ones Others are blue It's the way you…
Hi-Yo Silver Hi-Yo Silver! Away! Horses come and horses go But there's on…
Hold That Critter Down It′s round-up time And the weather's fine. The strays must b…
Home On The Range Where the deer and the antelope play Where seldom is heard A…
Hoppy Gene and Me It seems like only yesterday that we rode the range…
I'm an Old Cowhand I'm An Old Cowhand from the Rio Grande, and I learned…
Jesus Loves Me I was sinking deep in sin, Far from the peaceful shore, Very…
Judgment Day If I had possession, over judgment day If I had possession,…
Love Lifted Me I was sinking deep in sin, Far from the peaceful shore, Very…
My Lost Home In Your Arms I lost a love that would last forever, it was…
On the Old Spanish Trail No Silver spurs, tingle like hers and mine It was music…
Pecos Bill Now Pecos Bill was quite a cowboy down in Texas Why,…
Ragtime cowboy Joe He always sings raggy music to the cattle As he swings…
Riders in the Sky An old cowpoke went out on a dark and windy…
Roll On Up in the mornin' out on the job, work like…
San Antonio Rose Deep within my heart lies a melody A song of old…
Shake Your Moneymaker Shake your moneymaker Shake your moneymaker Shake your mon…
Stampede Lightning a flashin' everywhere Thunder a rollin' through th…
Terraplane Blues (Robert Johnson) And I feel so lonesome You hear me when I…
The Cowboy He always sings raggy music to the cattle As he swings…
The Yellow Rose Of Texas There's a yellow rose of Texas I'm goin' there to see No…
There's a Roundup in the Sky Get along dogies, up the trail high-tailed, Get along dogies…
Tumblin' Tumbleweeds See them tumbling down Pledging their love to the ground! …
Tumbling Tumbleweed See them tumbling down, Pledging their love to the ground! L…
Walkin' Blues I woke up this mornin', I'm lookin' 'round for my…
Way Out There A lonely spot, I know where no man will go Where…
Yellow Rose of Texas There's a yellow rose of Texas I'm goin' there to see No…
Yesterday What a day was yesterday Oh, yesterday gave me you All my…
You Waited Too Long You waited too long to say that you're sorry Now I've…


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