BAND
PROFILES: Ray Benson
BIRTHDAY: March 16
ORIGINALLY FROM: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
INSTRUMENT: Guitar
PERSON(S) WHO MOST INFLUENCED YOUR MUSIC CAREER: Bob Wills,
Count Basie, Moon Mullican, Hank Williams, Louis Jordan & Willie
Nelson
FIRST ALBUM PURCHASED: Fats Domino
ENDORSEMENTS: St. Louis Music, John Pearse Strings & Gibson
Guitars
WEBSITE: www.raybenson.com
When approaching catering & asking
yourself “What am I going to have for dinner” what
do you always hope won’t be the answer? Lunch Meat
or Nothing
Projects
you’ve been involved with? What haven’t I
been involved with? I’m the BOSS!!
Who’s
thoughts would you most like to be able to read? Kinky
Friedman
What
have you lost on the road that you would most like to retrieve?
My mind
Your name spelled backwards? Nosneb Yar
What type of music do you dislike the most? Out of tune
music
Favorite
pizza topping? Cheese
Favorite
rodeo event? Team Roping
If you were to re-name the band, what would you name them? Ray
Benson and The Can’t Hardly Playboys
Jessica Simpson or Britney
Spears? Prince
Who makes the best hamburger in Austin? Dan’s
If you could star in
a movie who would your female co-star be? Jean Tierney
If they were to make a movie about your life who would wish
they would cast as you? Bill Walton
Soprano character that is most like
you? Meadow
Curb Your Enthusiasm or Sopranos? Curb Your Enthusiasm