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Mason Ruffner moved from Fort Worth to New Orleans some 10 years ago. "I was looking for some inspiration,” he says—in fact, he was thinking about becoming a poet or a novelist before getting back into his first love, music. He played Bourbon Street clubs six hours a day and slowly built a reputation that eventually drew such admirers as Jimmy Page, Robbie Robertson and Bruce Springsteen.
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Mason Ruffner moved from Fort Worth to New Orleans some 10 years ago. "I was looking for some inspiration,” he says—in fact, he was thinking about becoming a poet or a novelist before getting back into his first love, music. He played Bourbon Street clubs six hours a day and slowly built a reputation that eventually drew such admirers as Jimmy Page, Robbie Robertson and Bruce Springsteen.
Ruffner landed a record deal in the spring of 1985, and his debut disc, Mason Ruffner, was critically acclaimed but didn’t do much to dent the charts. Ruffner spent much time touring, including opening gigs for the Firm and the Hooters, before returning to the studio in late 1986 with roots enthusiast Dave Edmunds to produce Gypsy Blood, an album that assimilates Ruffner’s raw, honkytonk roots into a slicker, though no less powerful, modern sound.