Description: The Official Website for Stan Ridgway; songwriter, singer, film music composer, and Wall Of Voodoo mastermind
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STAN RIDGWAY Welcome to stanridgway.com the official website for Stan Ridgway; songwriter, singer, film music composer, and Wall Of Voodoo mastermind.
"Music is more than just chords and notes to me, it has the ability to make pictures in the mind,” says noir troubadour and sound alchemist Stan Ridgway. “My records are designed to be seen as well as heard.”
It's been a long and influential road for the songwriter/guitarist and original Wall Of Voodoo vocalist. His darkly humorous, and richly cinematic musical tales of the ironies inside the American Dream have been compared to other classic songwriting iconoclasts like Randy Newman, Tom Waits, Johnny Cash and even hard boiled mystery writers like Raymond Chandler and Jim Thompson, as well as twisted film makers like David Lynch and Quentin Tarantino. The San Francisco Chronicle said, "He conjures "Burroughs, B