Fallen Fret eBook Ray Richard
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In a Lower Manhattan nightclub, after patrons left for life and love, guitarist Chaz Russell rubbed the knife scar on his arm and stared at his glass of whisky. Cold weather, alcohol, and age couldn’t numb thoughts of the previous summer when musicians slept with their guitars, tavern drinkers wouldn’t gossip, and murderers roamed free.
His discomfort began when Sarah O’Malley, a pesky author with Ivy League airs, asked him about a secret collaboration between a gifted jazz musician, the greatest guitarist alive, and a few stellar sidemen. His defensive denial made her cry, but conciliatory chords from his custom guitar made her smile. His bluesy notes led to her mention of her sister Liz, a felonious guitar player who preferred Harlem edge over Times Square flash. Fresh from detention, she thrived in the city music scene while Sarah sidestepped process servers.
When predation made Liz a revengeful pursuer, Sarah served as an unsteady copilot as they navigated slippery relationships and disturbing encounters with the music industry’s dark side.
Fallen Fret eBook Ray Richard
From the start, Fallen Fret immersed us in the life of the Blues musician, where gigs are sporadic, drink flows freely and instruments are king. In the New York based Chaz Russell band, guitars are given names like Thelma and Jasper and have stories to tell, including some of deceit,greed and murder.In Ray Richard's first novel, characters have histories but hope, they're weary but forgiving. They're human.
Put on some Lucinda Williams or Muddy Waters and curl up with Fallen Fret for a great suspense novel with some surprise twists and turns.
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Fallen Fret eBook Ray Richard Reviews
as a newly published writer mr. Richard sure held my attention....blast from the past in music history, stong female music character in the days before many women forayed into and became accomplished, accepted guitarists in the male dominated industry.....THIS WOULD MAKE A GREAT MOVIE
Great story telling. Fallen Fret includes a judicious mix of blues and rock history, as well as mystery and suspense. The story line takes us from one generation of talented musicians to the next, shadowed by nostalgia, intrigue, and criminal susceptibilities. Made me want to break out my buried Blues LP collection.
I’m as guilty as the next reader of drifting into ruts, defaulting too often to the same genres, settings, and authors. My book list leans heavily on the nexus of mystery/history/England, with the familiar round of (mostly female) writers well represented. So Ray Richard’s debut novel Fallen Fret was a refreshing change for me.
The main setting is the blues scene in contemporary New York—its clubs, concerts, studios, and haunts. Side trips include a guitar workshop in Arkansas, a blues festival in Maine, a collectors’ lair in Washington state, and a modest concert venue in my own hometown of Fall River, MA. (I’ve enjoyed rock, folk, and comedy at “The Narrows,” but—as yet—no blues.)
I don’t know much about the blues at all, but Richard deftly blends many details of mood, tone, and history into his story. Crisp description and well-placed exposition provide helpful background, and I soon felt at home in this sometimes glitzy, often gritty world of players, fans, wannabes, and hangers-on. Along the way, I effortlessly learned about lossless recordings, one-of-kind guitars, the art of string bending, and much more.
Fallen Fret’s plot turns on a point of musical history did Jimi Hendrix and Miles Davis record an album together? And if so, where is it? Richard inserts one of his main characters, bluesman Chaz Russell, into this mystery. Chaz is a seventy-year-old survivor
They’ve written my story many times. Born in ’44 on a Mississippi cotton farm. Great-grandparents were freed slaves. Age ten, got good playing a two-string guitar made from a cigar box bolted to a canoe-paddle. At seventeen, hitched a freight train to Chicago. Got a job painting a record company office. A studio musician got sick, I filled in. Led to steady work with Muddy Waters. Got tired of Mud, so I formed my own band. We’ve played all over America and Europe. It’s a typical bluesman life of fame, fortune, misfortune, no fortune, little fortune.
Chaz meets the O’Malley sisters at the Manhattan nightclub Mim’s first music journalist Sarah, who’s looking for the story that will make her career; then parolee Liz, who happens to be a self-taught savant on the blues guitar. When Chaz is stabbed while protecting Thelma, his prized guitar, he taps Liz to replace him in his City Blues band. Nothing will ever be the same.
Richard’s skill in handling the complex twists and turns of his plot are matched by his ability to create memorable characters from City Band mainstays Kenny and Pearly to Ruby, the notorious guitar thief.
Fallen Fret is simply a great read, both for dyed-in-the-wool blues fans—who will certainly appreciate its insider point of view—and for any reader looking for a page-turner that’s a satisfying escape from the same old stories.
This was a very good book. It held my curiosity. The only reason I did not give 5 stars was because of the sudden ending.
Amazing knowledge of the music scene- wonderfully quirky characters - many humorous scenes in this mystery with quite a surprising ending. I thoroughly enjoyed reading Fallen Fret.
I enjoyed this book very much, learned about guitars and music, both
past and present day. A quick and easy read I totally enjoyed.
From the start, Fallen Fret immersed us in the life of the Blues musician, where gigs are sporadic, drink flows freely and instruments are king. In the New York based Chaz Russell band, guitars are given names like Thelma and Jasper and have stories to tell, including some of deceit,greed and murder.
In Ray Richard's first novel, characters have histories but hope, they're weary but forgiving. They're human.
Put on some Lucinda Williams or Muddy Waters and curl up with Fallen Fret for a great suspense novel with some surprise twists and turns.
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