Mason Ruffner, a New Orleans resident since last summer, launched the Blues Tent’s opening-day music Friday, April 22, with a blues-rock set propelled by groove. New Orleans drummer Kerry Brown and ...

During the first Blues Tent set of the 2016 New Orleans Jazz Fest’s first day, guitarist Mason Ruffner expressed what many hardcore early arrivals were thinking: “You’ve been waiting since last year’s ...

(Good) Mason Ruffner, Mason Ruffner (Columbia BFZ 40191): Per Dire Straits singer-guitarist Mark Knopfler, Ruffner’s nasal voice and phrasing elicit comparison to the singing of Bob Dylan. This ...

Like many great guitar-slinging singing songwriters, motion has long figured into the Ruffner equation. From Fort Worth to New Orleans to Wimberley to Memphis to Scandinavia, Ruffner trots the globe ...

Mason Ruffner's scheduled show at d.b.a. on Thursday, July 9, 2015, will be his first in New Orleans in more than a decade. On Thursday, July 9, the options for live music in New Orleans include the ...

“This is some cruising and moving music,” Mason Ruffner called out to the weekend crowd at the London Victory Club. With that, Ruffner dug into a driving blues rhythm on his electric guitar as his ...

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For a man who seems poised on the brink of rock stardom, Mason Ruffner is admirably leery of fame. In fact, there are guys with bigger egos playing air guitar down at the beach.“It’s wrong of me to ...

Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Shaka Zulu (Warner): The fabulous South African vocal group that Paul Simon brought to American attention with ”Graceland,” here gets an album of its own, produced by Simon ...