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It fter months of speculation, took a long time to finalize the Anegotiations and interrogations, details - I mean the contract is 39 Mason Ruffner has signed a record­ pages long. We had to get the ing deal with the mighty CBS budget worked out and find a pro­ record label. Accordi~g to Ruffner, ducer and choose a recording stu- the contract calls for one album, di0. " and an option on at least two more. Ex-rock 'n' roller Rick Derringer "The guy who·really got the ball (his current production credits an hour, roughly nine pounds of rolling was John Birge:• said Ruf­ include "Like a Surgeon" by Weird meat. The peelers are paid by the fner, pausing while thumbing AI Yanchovich) will oversee the Happy Tails pound. through a Rolls Royce catalog. session which will be recorded in Anyone can sell crawfish to the "He's really not an A&R person, he Bogalusa at Studio In The Country. Co-op. The Co-op is selling bait works in CBS' accounting depart­ "I'm hoping that we can finish To You· and nets at the lowest price in the ment. A guy who had had some hits up in less than two weeks:• added area. The Co-op's goal is stabiliza­ with them a few years back, Steve Ruffner. ''I've never cut an album he next time you buy a bag of tion of crawfish prices. With profits Forbert, had told him about me. before so I don't completely know Tcrawfish tails, check the label. divided evenly amongst members, "Birge was down here in March everything about it. We might add a After two strikes against the craw­ the Co-op is looking to avoid the on vacation and stopped by the piano track to a few numbers. I'd fish dealers, fishermen started the typical situation where the fisher­ Absinthe Bar to see us. He said he like to use Katie Webster maybe Louisiana Crawfish Producers man sells to a buyer for 25-30 cents liked what he heard, and asked me when we're up in New York [both Association, out of which came the a pound and the buyer drives down to send him a demo tape. I didn't Ruffner and the Texas Boogie Acadiana Fisherman's Co-op. To the road and sells the same crawfish even have one at the time but I put a Queen will be appearing at the become a member, fishermen paid a for up to a dollar a pound. tape together ir. about a week. Lone Star this month]:' $2,000 entry fee which helped pay The Co-op hopes to get a larger "They really must have liked it According to Ruffner, the as-yet to set up the Co-op's own process­ boiler, more peeling stations, a because they started calling me just untitled album (it was being ing plant in Henderson.