Ralph Beeby and The Elephant Collective

Ralph Beeby and The Elephant Collective A DARKER SHADE OF THE BLUES

Like Nick Cave bumping into Howlin' Wolf on the midnight train to nowhere. 🐘🐘🐘

"A fabulous, earthy, raw blues rhythm that gets you up out of your seat from the first bar." -- Angry Baby
A deep,menacing voice sings haunting tales over a dark forest of intricate guitar lines: "Nick Cave meets Ralph McTell," as some fans have suggested. Rooted in Blues and Folk with overtones of Gothic Americana, Ralph Beeby's bleak tales echo across a rich backdrop of elaborate acoustic finger

picking and rattling bottleneck guitar. Eschewing a lot of the more well-trodden cliches of his genre, Ralph draws on a diverse range of influences including jazz, classical music, and Eastern European folk music to create a strange but compelling sound.

17/08/2026

Just a little Blues improv in G minor...

07/08/2026

Day 7 of posting acoustic covers of Dark Blues and Gothic Americana favourites. This one, you'll probably recognise...but let me know in the comments if it isn't obvious!

05/08/2026

Day 6, and another acoustic cover: today's is Downbound Train, by the Boss - bit of a deep cur from Born in the USA, but it lends itself quite well to slide guitar and a Dark Blues style, if I do say so myself.

04/08/2026

Day 5 of posting acoustic covers of Dark Blues/Gothic Americana favourites. Today: a blues-leaning interpretation of Georges Brassens' "La Complainte des Filles de Joie"

03/08/2026

Day 4 of posting acoustic covers of some of my Dark Blues/Gothic Americana favourites. On today's edition: Blue and Lonesome, originally written by Memphis Slim.

02/08/2026

Day 3 of posting Dark Blues/Gothic Americana favourites. Taking a bit of a risk with an Elles Bailey cover, seeing as she's got one of the best voices on the UK Blues scene right now, but here goes...

01/08/2026

Day 2 of posting acoustic covers of Dark Blues/Gothic Americana favourites. On today's edition: Robert Johnson's "Dust My Broom" (leaning heavily on Elmore James' version, admittedly!)
Worth mentioning again that I am taking requests: pop yours in the comments!

30/07/2026

Day 1 of posting acoustic covers of some Dark Blues/Gothic Americana favourites. Today's is "Run Through the Jungle" by Creedence Clearwater Revival.
I have some others planned, but I'll take requests in the comments...

21/07/2026

Why limit yourself to looped patterns when you could play basslines with your thumb?
(Don't get me wrong: I've seen a few performers do some truly incredible things with a loop pedal... in any case, not all of us are trying to copy Ed Sheeran)

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