#108 From Scunthorpe to Brooklyn w/ The Ruen Brothers
The Road to Now
Benjamin Sawyer
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2018
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Henry & Rupert Stansall (aka The Ruen Brothers) began their musical careers playing in the Working Men's clubs of Scunthorpe in Northern England at a time in life when most of us were only beginning to discover music. In the almost two decades since, their road has led them to London, Los Angeles, and finally to Brooklyn, NY, where they currently reside. In between, the duo now known as The Ruen Brothers has covered thousands of miles, playing for tens of thousands of people. Along the way, they've been celebrated by the BBC, signed by Dolphus Ramseur, and recorded an album with famed producer Rick Rubin. In today's episode, Ben Sawyer speaks with Henry and Rupert about how they discovered the music that influenced their sound, the victories and losses that come with abandoning the security of home for the uncertainty of the outside world, and the lesson they've learned about what matters in building a successful career in music.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, Cyrus. |
| 0:01.0 | Hey, this is Brendan from Umphreys McGee. |
| 0:05.0 | This podcast is part of the Osiris Podcast family. |
| 0:08.0 | Osiris is a growing community of music and culture podcasts, connecting music fans with conversation, |
| 0:14.0 | commentary, and of course lots of music. |
| 0:17.0 | Osiris works in partnership with Relics Magazine. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Ben Sawyer, and this is The Road to Now. |
| 0:24.5 | And the road for this week's episode did not take me very far. |
| 0:28.9 | It's an episode with the Ruin Brothers, who recently came back through Nashville for the second time in the last few weeks. |
| 0:36.3 | I was lucky enough to meet them at Americana Fest and just |
| 0:39.6 | say hello, tell them how much I appreciate their music and them being part of Ramser Records, |
| 0:45.3 | which, as you know, if you've listened to this podcast in the last several months, we've been |
| 0:50.4 | advertising for them. So I'm going to say thank you. I got into a great conversation with them. |
| 0:56.3 | And it turns out they love podcasts because as you may or may not, but probably know, musicians spend a lot of time in vehicles. |
| 1:06.6 | And apparently they love to listen to podcasts. |
| 1:09.3 | And they said they love to be on. |
| 1:12.5 | And so I said, let's do do it and they came through again last week and i sat down with them and had a great conversation |
| 1:18.5 | and some of the episodes that we do we don't speak with historians or scholars we speak with |
| 1:24.1 | musicians artists people in politics and it may not focus so much on a particular topic in history, |
| 1:32.9 | but the conversation makes you really think deeply about some of the things that are going on |
| 1:37.9 | in the world we live in now. |
| 1:40.1 | And in this episode, one of the most interesting things, I think, was our discussion about vinyl. |
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