Stan Ridgway

Stan Ridgway
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Styles: Alternative Pop/Rock, Original Score, Experimental Rock, Singer/Songwriter, Ambient Pop
Biography: One of the most unique singer/songwriters in American indie music, with an unforgettable adenoidal vocal delivery that makes him sound like a low-level wise guy in one of those old Warner Bros. gangster films of the '30s and a lyrical obsession with the themes of pulp crime novels and film noir, Stan ...Read full biography
SNAKEBITE: Blacktop Ballads & Fugitive Songs
Released: 2004
Label: CD Baby
Critics' Rating:
Stan Ridgway sounds recharged on a sprawling set that revisits familiar territory but does so in a fresh fashion. Not counting 2004's Blood which was more a soundtrack, this is the ex-Wall of Voodoo frontman's ...Read full review
Mosquitos
Released: 1989
Label: Geffen
Critics' Rating:
Ridgway is as much a storyteller as a songwriter, and the stories are wildly imaginative on this album. The sometimes exotic musical settings effectively evoke the literary landscapes Ridgway's near-spoken ...Read full review
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