Marty Raybon

Marty Raybon comes full circle (Mar 2003)

Marty Raybon, longtime lead singer for Shenandoah during their Grammy-winning heyday in the late '80s and early '90s, vividly recalls the 1986 film "Crossroads" in which Ralph Macchio plays a Julliard prodigy who becomes obsessed with the blues and seeks out a living blues legend, played by Joe Seneca. At one point, Raybon remembers, Seneca tells his young prot�g�, "If you're gonna play the blues, you gotta take it from where you got it, and you gotta carry it through. If you're gonna be a blues man, you gotta carry it further." "That," says Raybon, "is what I want to do with what I'm doing."  ...