NEW BEATS
Mason Ruffner moved from Fort Worth to New Orleans some 10 years ago. "I was looking for some inspiration,” he says—in fact, he was thinking about becoming a poet or a novelist before getting back into his first love, music. He played Bourbon Street clubs six hours a day and slowly built a reputation that eventually drew such admirers as Jimmy Page, Robbie Robertson and Bruce Springsteen.
November 1, 1987