Artist description Guitarist / keyboardist / composer.

Music Style New Age/Folk/Jazz/World/Classical/Rock

Musical Influences Clapton, Zappa, Saint-Saens, Jeff Beck, Beatles, E L & P, Stravinsky, Debussy, Hendrix, Cream, Ravel, Santana, Stones, Van Morrison, Yardbirds, Raphael, Spike Jones, Steely Dan, Kinks, Bo Diddley, Jack Bruce, Robben Ford, Elvis, Essra Mohawk, It's A Beautiful Day, Moody Blues, Bus Rabbitt & the Clikel Deinkles, Flora Purim, Steve McLinn, Mike Mager, Bob Dylan, Robert Sutherland, Gabor Szabo, and Bo Gazebo.

Similar Artists If you were to combine, say, Jeff Beck, Christopher Franke, Frank Zappa, Raphael, Ravel, Sergio Mendez, and Gordon Lightfoot, you might blow a brain gasket, so...never mind.

Artist History Semi-professional musician who's played in local bands for over 30 years, but always did a little non-mainstream composing on the side.

Group Members D. Ray Polk

Instruments Guitar, keyboard, djembe, harmonica.

Press Reviews "This guitarist's contemplative New Age explorations reveal the influence of Folk fingerpicking styles; he also creates lushly atmospheric synth-driven Fusion, which explodes into passionate percussion solos."-Excite Music. "That's the only review I have (besides the fake silly ones that follow)."-D. Ray Polk. "He could be considered a rapper don't-wannabe."-Prep H. "He [displays] surprising elements of cathartic empathy [for such a] silly man."-Pax Nobiscum. "Not only is he a relative unknown, but an unknown relative as well."-Bud Polk. "A leader in the current genre of escalator music."-Bob Sears & David Roebuck. "When's the last time you had a big hot heapin' bowl full of Wolf brand chili?"-Homer Sapyens. "Well that's too long!"-Australio Pithecus. "Behold, the Kingdom of God is within you!"-Jesus of Nazareth. "I dropped my bloody teeth!"-Ozzie of Black Sabbath. "I am not a crook!"-R. Nixon. "I am not a lying sex addict!"-W. Clinton. "I am not a blood-thirsty lizard!"-G.W. Bush. "Love is still the answer."-Ahosta Vuthers. The following statement is true. The previous statement is false. "Similar to Shakespeare, he expresses some ado about something."-Bob Hamlett. "Like a pendulum playing tennis in solid matter, Polk seems to oscillate between a hot molten iron core at the center and the surface of the Earth's crust. I know that's weird, but it's late."-Jack Hammer, ex-XFL LB. "Achoo!"..."Bless you!" "Actually, for me, hydrogen has always been a real gas."-B. Love. "I don't understand none of that stuff."-Falbert Dahillickee. "I realize that this section looks impressive...until you actually read it."-Stephen & Sophie Hawkins. "I would like to have him on my show."-J. Springer. "He been a good boy all his days."-Willie the Maid. "Can we talk?"-Joan Rivers. "Exhibits...and then...though not...before sampling...so much...excellence." (excerpt from Press Reviews) "I could go on and on about this artist, but I won't."-Mohogny Bairbloom. "We are coming to the end of the fake press reviews as we know it."-DRP.

Additional Info The CD's

Location Oklahoma City, OK - USA

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