![]() In many ways, this is also a sign that as time goes on and the battle for the ranch and the land intensifies from all sides, John realizes that everyone there is his family, whether they share the same blood or not, because they are all fighting for the same thing. ![]() For all he's given, Rip is finally rewarded with what he deserves, not just with a tangible mark of his role within the Dutton family that the property signifies, but far more by the understated yet powerful way John fully accepts him as his own son. The scene depicting Rip receiving land on the ranch as John's letter is read to him never fails to make me emotional, as the moment even breaks the stoic tough guy himself. Where all the other Dutton kids disappointed, or clashed with John or went their own ways, Rip was always there when he was needed, every single time, and his loyalty never had to be questioned or verified. He's just appreciative to have the only thing that has ever felt like an approximation of a home to him, because he never got to have that growing up. He never asks for anything in return for all his blood and sweat, never complains about what he has to do or what's done to him, nor does he take any of it for granted. He does everything he can to protect the ranch and the Dutton family, even though he's not got any stake in the land or any blood of that family running through his veins. There's just something about him that never fails to captivate me. This show is filled with amazing, fascinating, well-crafted characters top to bottom, but Rip has always been the standout to me. Venues he performs at vary from intimate coffeehouses and pubs, to large concert halls, theaters, and festivals. ![]() He appeals to a wide range of audiences from folk to jamband to punk to old timey traditional and to kids of all ages. He plays an acoustic antique National Steel guitar and sings his own unique arrangements of rags, jazz, & blues songs from the 20's & 30's and many originals with wordplay, humor, and throat singing. The Rogues Gallery CD, produced by Johnny Depp and Hal Wilner in connection with The Pirates of the Caribbean film, landed Baby Gramps on the David Letterman Show.īaby Gramps is a high energy humorously entertaining performer with an endless repertoire. He is credited with making Seattle audiences aware of old blues and novelty songs that the rest of the world has mostly forgotten.īaby Gramps toured England and Ireland this past summer (2008) as part of the Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys CD Concert Tour with Tim Robbins (actor), Martha and Rufus Wainright, Jenny Muldaur (Maria and Geoff's daughter), Lou Reed, The Watersons, Martin Carthy and Eliza, Suzanne Vega, Ralph Steadman, and many other internationally know performers. “Baby Gramps’s performances on “Rogue’s Gallery” (Anti), a two-disc set of sea chanteys produced by Hal Willner, are among the album’s best, and that’s saying a lot: among the other contributors are Sting, Lou Reed, Lucinda Williams, Bono, Bryan Ferry, Nick Cave, Van Dyke Parks and Bill Frisell.” - Ben Ratlif, The New York TimesĪccording to an article in Seattle Metropolitan Magazine, Baby Gramps is acknowledged as one of the top 50 most influential musicians in the last 100 years along with Ray Charles, Jelly Roll Morton, Ernestine Anderson, John Cage, Bill Frisell, Jimi Hendrix, Quincy Jones, The Wailers, The Ventures, Sound Garden, and Pearl Jam. His voice is a cross between Popeye the Sailor and a Didgeridoo and the plinkity plink of his VERY worn National steel guitar, sounds like a wind up jack in the box. His singing styles include throat singing. His busy and unusual guitar style includes flat and finger picking, and "chording" with the back of his hand and his elbow. Read Full Bio Baby Gramps plays a mixture of styles and eras including traditional blues, children's and labor songs, and his own compositions. Baby Gramps plays a mixture of styles and eras including traditional blues, children's and labor songs, and his own compositions.
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