The Raventones are a minimalist "power duo" from rainy, rocky, remote Swisshome, Oregon. TR Kelley plays baritone and bass guitars and bits of other things, Randy Hamme handles the drums, percussion and engineering. Kelley also plays a jazz vocalist, mixing melismatic word trance, rap, vocalese, and other noises into the stories.
The Raventones' sparse, thick, twangy low strings & drum sound grooves like a surf-jazz combo from the backwoods of outer space with whiffs of The Ventures, Ray Charles, The Police, Joni Mitchell, and Star Trek.
( TR also has two solo albums - http://www.cdbaby.com/trkelley)
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