He has worked with many musicians including Bob Dylan, Daniel Lanois, Robert Ealey, Memphis Slim, John Lee Hooker, Jimmy Page and Ringo Starr.
[1] From 1985 to the present, Ruffner has released six albums, including Gypsy Blood (1987) and You Can't Win (1999).
[5] His debut album, Mason Ruffner (1985), was produced by Rick Derringer,[6] and earned critical acclaim from both Rolling Stone and The New York Times.
He went on to tour supporting Jimmy Page[1] and, in 1987, released Gypsy Blood, which was produced by Dave Edmunds.
[1] After this time, Ruffner bought a property in Wimberley, Texas, and largely withdrew from the music limelight for almost a decade.
[1] Ruffner's career has been inspired by Jimmy Reed,[9] Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Lightnin' Hopkins and Howlin' Wolf.
In addition, he has drawn influences from the literary work of the French poets, Comte de Lautréamont, Charles Baudelaire and Arthur Rimbaud.
He was a regional star, had a high pompadour, a gold tooth smile with a tiny guitar inlaid.
He had a few records out and some explosive licks with funky edges, rockabilly tremolo-influenced, wrote songs, too, said that he'd hung around libraries reading Rimbaud and Baudelaire to get his language down.