About
Rusty Ends is a Louisville-based guitarist and bandleader with over 50 years of roadhouse, blues, and swamp-jazz fire behind him.
Rusty Ends isn’t just a musician—he’s a living bridge between America’s most soulful musical traditions.
Starting professionally at age 15 in Kentucky roadhouses, this Louisville-based guitarist has spent over half a century perfecting a sound festival bookers crave: authentic, high-energy, and impossible to stand still to.
His songs read like neon-lit stories straight out of the American South—from the slinky, dangerous edge of “Bad Like Billy the Kid” to the locomotive jolt of “Rockabilly Train.” Rusty’s lyrics paint scenes of roadhouses, juke joints, and honky-tonks where “the floors are sticky, the beer is cheap, and the dance moves are enthusiastic.”
A disciple of country legend Virgil Clopton, Rusty’s guitar doesn’t just play—it weeps, struts, stings, and smiles, channeling blues, jazz, swamp, and rockabilly roots into every note.
Critics describe Rusty’s sound as a “spicy musical gumbo”—a seamless blend of Kentucky grit, New Orleans hoodoo, swamp blues, rockabilly fire, old-school soul, and jazz sophistication.
Video
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Press
What people are saying about Rusty Ends.
“I get uncomfortable when people don’t dance… I feel like I’m doing something wrong if I can’t get them up on the dance floor.”
“You’ll feel like dancin’ too when you listen to Rusty.”
“Rusty Ends is the real deal — a living bridge between the gritty rock and blues of the ’50s and ’60s and today’s sounds.”
“Rusty Ends provides the electricity & does it with entertaining, suave licks. His music creates an indelible mood that drifts like cigarette smoke up to the tin ceiling.”
Shows
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Now booking festivals, clubs, listening rooms, and special events.
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Streaming & Video
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Management:
Michael Frank, Earwig Music
mfrank@earwigmusic.com
773-960-7064