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Lee Ranaldo (b. February 3 1956 ) is an American Singer and Guitar ist, probably best known as a cofounder of the Rock band Sonic Youth . Ranaldo was born in Glen Cove , Long Island , New York . He has one son, Cody Linn Ranaldo, and is married to the experimental artist Leah Singer, with whom he has performed many live installation pieces with Improvised Music . Among Ranaldo's solo records are ''Dirty Windows'', a collection of spoken texts with music, ''Amarillo Ramp'' (for Robert Smithson ), pieces for the guitar, and '' Scriptures Of The Golden Eternity ''. His books include ''Bookstore'', ''Road Movies'', and ''Jrnls80s''. A full-length book of writings on Moroccan travels and music, as well as a book of new Poem s, ''Lengths & Breaths'', will be out soon. Recent visual work has been included in exhibitions at the Hayward Gallery in London , the Sydney Museum Of Contemporary Art and Mercer Union in Toronto . Ranaldo has produced albums for Babes In Toyland , You Am I , Deity Guns , and others, including Dutch Art Rock -ensemble KLEG . He also released a book of his poetry (published by Soft Skull Press ), and has edited a volume of tour journals from the 1995 Lollapalooza Tour written by Thurston Moore , Beck , Stephen Malkmus , Courtney Love , and others. Ranaldo worked with Jazz Drum mer William Hooker on Improvise d music, and reading and improvising Poetry . In 2004 Rolling Stone ranked Ranaldo and Thurston Moore , of Sonic Youth, the 33rd and 34th best guitarists of all time. Ranaldo usually uses Fender Jazzmaster Electric Guitar s, with radically altered tunings, and modifications. |
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