7 string guitar

Gone America (No More Rainy Day Girl)

Skull And Bone Rag

Pub Of Love

Dempsey [Disc 1]

Feelin' Ace Sunrise

This track co written with Four-Tet on my first album Dempsey

Lil Poon Tang

Co written with Four-Tet for my first album Dempsey.

Sweet Fanny Adams

Co written with Trevor Jackson on my first album Dempsey

Dempsey

Down The Track

What You Goin' On About

Raleigh Rye is a country blues guitar and piano player, singer and native of Southern California.


He has been fortunate to spend time living and playing music in such cities as Austin TX, Nashville TN, New Orleans, LA and Greenwich Village NYC.

In each of these cities he has cultivated a repertoire with the local musical stylists, sharing stages and performing across the South-West and North-East of the US.
 
Raleigh has spent the last 8 years living in London, England, playing on the festival and club circuit in the UK (including a 6 month stint living with The Pogues’ leader Shane McGowan above a North London pub). Here, he got signed with Universal Records under the name Dempsey and he released the critically acclaimed album Sunrise/Sunset produced by London based folktronica mix merchant Four Tet.

Since then Raleigh has come back to the traditional styles of the American South and has been putting the finishing touches on his self produced LP titled Raleigh Rye.

The album is inspired by writers of American Southern literature from the 1920s and 1930s. The recordings include members of such bands as Morrissey, Tom Jones, Mystery Jets and various west country instrumentalists.


In live shows, in addition to his original songs, Raleigh covers traditional artists such as: Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Mississippi John Hurt, JJ Cale, Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, Towns Van Zant, Hank Williams, The Grateful Dead, The Rolling Stones, The Everly Brothers, Bukka White, Bob Dylan, The Band and many more.

"I'm never one to question the whys and wherefores coming through radio airwaves on a hot Louisiana night. But somewhere through the static at the far end of the car radio dial...As I lit a cigarette and took a drag, mingling with my dreams forgotten and loves lost, I hear Raleigh Rye, Skull and Bone Rag."