Biography

“If you would have told me when I was covering Dylan's Rolling Thunder tour for Rolling Stone magazine that forty-four years later I would be releasing my first album I would have laughed and asked for a hit of whatever it was you were smoking,” Larry “Ratso” Sloman chuckles. “Guess I’ll take that hit now.” A chance meeting with Bob Dylan resulted in joining the Rolling Thunder Revue as the tour's official scribe. Sloman then forged an impressive career as a writer, collaborating with Howard Stern, Anthony Kiedis, David Blaine, and Mike Tyson on their memoirs. Ratso has also written lyrics for Rick Derringer and John Cale as well as acting in films, including an appearance in the new Scorsese documentary on that Rolling Thunder tour. What hasn’t he done? His own album. Produced by Vin Cacchione (of Caged Animals) in Bushwick, it's eight originals and an audacious Bob Dylan cover. Sung by a guy who witnessed the counter-cultural explosion of 1970s NYC and birthed forty years later within the DIY confines of Brooklyn, Stubborn Heart has a modern sound and a timeless feel. His Rolling Stones fan club card long gone, Ratso’s now a card-carrying member of the American Association of Retired Persons but he’s determined to ride this new career wherever it takes him. “Maybe I can be the Jewish Susan Boyle,” he muses. “The oldest best new artist ever. And if that doesn’t pan out I can always perform on subway platforms. Hey, I can get in for half-price!”