Putah Creek Crawdads
announce their new CD
Going Back
 
‘You get a line, I’ll get a pole....’
 

For Ray Coppock, (baritone harmony, guitar and harmonica) folk-singing in public started unexpectedly when the Crawdads rose out of the muck of Putah Creek 40 years ago, dripping with old-fashioned harmony. (Well, actually, they were just friends who liked to sing.) Old-timey songs are Ray’s favorites, but he likes almost anything with a tinge of folk that gives a chance to harmonize. And he enjoys an occasional lick with the harmonica.
 
Ray and his wife Ellen live in Davis, where they raised two boys and a girl and watched the town grow. He’s a retired writer and editor for the University of California. A native Californian, he grew up in a small Mojave Desert community, served in the infantry, graduated from Berkeley and worked as a reporter for assorted newspapers. He has back-packed the Sierra, published poetry and still likes tennis.