Ray Vaughn - Wounded Bird (CD)

This 2016 album from San Francisco-based rocker Ray Vaughn may be called Wounded Bird, but he's really more like a Phoenix rising from the ashes of a forgotten San Francisco music scene. Wounded Bird picks up where his last solo album left off, and now Ray Vaughn's songs have grown from the more stripped down singer/songwriter arrangements of Way Down Low to full-band productions. Ray Vaughn founded the punk/art rock band Hostages in 1979, and later the avant-garde Die Bosa Nova in 1984, leaving his mark on the then-thriving SF music scene, until disappearing from the public eye in 1992. Now over 20 years later, Ray has returned as someone tempered by time and experience-with many new stories to tell.