Artists:Ralston Bowles
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Ralston Bowles has been a fixture on the western Michigan music scene since 1970, helping the Grand Rapids music scene to flourish while encouraging national artists to make Grand Rapids a tour stop on their schedules. Host of the Frederik Meijer Gardens Tuesday Evening Music Club and a supporter of numerous charities through benefit concerts, he has performed with the Hothouse Flowers, T-Bone Burnett, Shawn Colvin and the Del McCoury Band.
Bowles's parents, Buel Bowles of Green Sulphur Springs, West Virginia (1913-2002) and May Jean Morgan of Vincennes, Indiana (1919-1998), met in Gary, Indiana, married, and had two children, Ralston and Mary-Jane Wallace Bowles.
Bowles wrote the songs "Fragile", recorded by Peter Mulvey and Caroline Aiken, and "Grace", based on a book by author Philip Yancey, What's So Amazing About Grace?. Bowles wrote the latter song after reading a pre-publication galley of the book. After the book was published, singer Bono of U2 wrote and released a similar song of the same title, based on the same book; the song appeared on the album All That You Can't Leave Behind.
In 2004 Bowles released a debut album, Carwreck Conversations. It was produced by Marvin Etzioni (former member of Lone Justice and producer of Counting Crows, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Peter Case and Grey DeLisle), engineered by David Vaught. The musicians include David Raven (drums), Brian Head (percussion), Danny McGough (keyboards) and Eric Heywood (pedal steel). It was recognized with three Jammie Awards: "album of the year", "best folk album" and "artist of the year." from wikipedia
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This is the only artist I have ever seen walk onto stage with someone's broken, borrowed guitar and totally wow the crowd. That's what he did before the Nickel Creek concert a few years ago. He's at every Hat Trick concert (a charity series in Grand Rapids), personally passing the hat. I've never personally spoken to him, but I have put money into the hat he held and wrote out a check for a Peter Mulvey CD which he collected at a Peter Mulvey show. I can't say enough for what this artist does for the Grand Rapids Arts community, but he is EVERYWHERE in Grand Rapids. Cater (talk/contribs) 16:13, June 11, 2008 (AKDT)
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| What Do You Want From Me Now? | Rally At The Texas Hotel | 4:48 | 2 |  7 votes |
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