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Hometown: Austin, TX
Label: Rattlesnake Records
Website: www.ratliffdean.com
Sounds Like: Waylon Jennings, ROY BUCHANAN the greatest unknown guitar player in, JJ Cale, Willie Nelson, Hank Williams 3
Genre: Country
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Ratliff Dean has been playing and singing for over twenty years. A native of West Texas, he grew up between working on the ranch in Texas and hanging out at the beach in California. He has been a part of many bands over the years including Randy Crouch and The Flying Horse Opera, The Woodbox Gang, MojoDeans, 420 in Progress, Horseapples, and The SilverTongueDevils, he also makes regular appearances with his younger brothers band, Mountain Sprout. He has shared the stage with the likes of Willie Nelson, Junior Brown, Hank 3, David Allen Coe, Robert Earl Keen, Jason Ringenberg, Splitlip Rayfield and many others. Blending country, rock, blues, and jazz, his music is sure to take you on a soulful journey.
“Texas Platters
Misc 101
BY MARGARET MOSER, FRI., MAY 13, 2011
Ratliff Dean
Only Memories
The tough-walking bass of opener "Train Back to Texas" is honky-tonk code for "let's dance." Two-stepping is quite secondary to Ratliff Dean's kicking around traditional back forty turf – women, work, wandering – all sung in a rich, manly baritone and backed with fiddle and fire ("Free Again," "Since She's Been Gone," "Fencepost Digging Blues"). More suede than rawhide, but good stuff to play when yer hitchhiking with yer honey.
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Margaret Moser - Austin Chronicle
