1. Ralph Carney was an American multi-instrumentalist, singer and composer.
20 Facts About Ralph Carney
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Ralph Carney is best known for his long association with Tom Waits and for his collaboration on the theme song for BoJack Horseman, along with his nephew Patrick Carney.
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Ralph Carney was born and grew up in Akron, Ohio, and listened to music on a windup record player.
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Ralph Carney showed an early interest in art, but turned to music in the eighth grade.
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Ralph Carney started learning five string banjo, violin, and harmonica and played bluegrass and country blues.
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Ralph Carney got his start as a professional musician as a founding member of the experimental rock and new wave band Tin Huey.
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Ralph Carney released several solo albums and was a member of the Oranj Symphonette with fellow Waits alumni Joe Gore and Matt Brubeck.
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Ralph Carney headed up San Francisco's Carneyball Johnson, playing on saxophones, Turkish clarinet, piccolo, trumpet, percussion and vocals.
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Ralph Carney occasionally joined them on stage when they toured that record.
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Ralph Carney toured with They Might Be Giants in the fall of 2009.
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Ralph Carney recorded on a T Bone Burnett-produced project the Ghost Brothers of Darkland County with Marc Ribot and Elvis Costello, as yet unreleased.
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Ralph Carney performed on many Hal Willner-produced shows at UCLA's Royce Hall including a Tribute to Harry Smith in 2001, with a huge number of performers including Todd Rundgren, Philip Glass, and David Johansen.
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Ralph Carney composed music for two poetry records on Paris Records.
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Ralph Carney did music for an Ira Cohen record called the Stauffenberg Cycle.
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In 1994 Ralph Carney performed on the Kathy Acker record Redoing Childhood.
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Ralph Carney did some songs for some flash Web Premiere Toons cartoons on CartoonNetwork.
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Ralph Carney did a collaboration with David Greenberger who puts out the Duplex Planet called Oh Pa that came out in late 2011.
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Ralph Carney's older brother, Jim Carney, is a retired reporter for the Akron Beacon Journal.
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Ralph Carney died on December 17,2017, at the age of 61, from head injuries sustained falling down steps in his home in Portland, Oregon, the previous day.
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Ralph Carney was survived by his daughter, Hedda, as well as his partner, Megan Hinchliffe.