Mason Ruffner - Evolution

This CD features a song called 'Angel Love' that has been done by Santana. Many consider this CD to be Ruffners finest studio recording. Here is a quote from Bob Dylan's book. 'Ft. Worth guitarist and singer Mason Ruffner played in Bourbon Street clubs like the Old Absinthe Bar. He was a regional star, had a high pompadour, a gold tooth smile with a tiny guitar inlaid. He had a few records out and some explosive licks with funky edges, rockabilly tremolo-influenced, wrote songs, too, said that he'd hung around libraries reading Rimbaud and Baudelaire to get his language down. He also told me that as a teenager he had played with Memphis Slim. I thought I had something in common with him there. I'd played with Big Joe Williams when I was coming up. Mason had some fine songs. One of them had the line, 'You do good things for people and it just makes them bad'. I would have thought about recording it if I didn't have my own originals. -Bob Dylan.

1) I Got a Flame
2) Kings Highway
3) Angel Love
4) Farewell
5) Lament in 6/8
6) Let the Spirit Go
7) Steel Rain
8) Evolution Song
9) You Are the Best
10) The Ragman