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Welcome to the Raiford Starke website. Who am I? I’m just an ol’ hombre lucky enough to pick up my broke-cherry red WMD (Weapon of Mass Distortion) Silvertone hollow-body guitar, and do what I love for a living in the greatest country on Earth. I’m lucky enough to have a woman named Dawn who won’t give me the time of day, an itch that needs scratchin’ and a serious jones to whip folks up into ecstatic frothing contractions of hormonal distraction.I invented a new type of shiite kickin’ music called bareaux b’ que . It only made me baroke. I’ve learned since then to mix it with the pseudo classics of pseudo-rock, pseudo-country, pseudo-soul, pseudo-blues, pseudo-jazz . . . it’s all pseudo-good. Pseudo-good enough to support that smart-ass 13 year-old son of mine who’s an honor student and a hell of a ball-player and an ex who like$ me now and reserves her spit just for the shine on my blue pseudo shoes. So there. Get your Federal Reserve Notes ready for Raiford Starke aka the Human Jukebox, a genuine American Treasury, a true brother man from a different mother of the DAR – the baby daddy your momma wish she’d ever had -- coming by bus, train, plane, tow-truck or car – by horse, cab or dream sequence outta your mason jar, at midnight, mornin’ light, the middle of the day, killin’ men in Reno just to watch me play – to a festival, nightclub, bar b’ que or bar -- or bedroom near you! (Photos by Donna Paul)  NEW TIMES says Speak Me by Raiford Starke is "...delightful...Over the course of the disc, Starke emerges as a musician willing to try his hand at just about anything..." Click on the CD cover to listen! |