Born in Sacramento California , Doug Ranno is a graduate of California State University Sacramento. Doug first began to write music as a way of expressing his feelings and concerns about life and studied guitar at a small music studio in Sacramento called Tiny Moore’s. Tiny was a world renowned mandolin player who was best known for his amazing mandolin picking.
Doug had a reputation of being very independent and very much a free spirit. It took the likes of a very talented, patient and soft spoken guitar player/instructor named Tom Phillips to catch Doug’s interest and motivate him to learn early classical guitar techniques. From there, Doug played locally with musician friends both independently and in bands throughout the Sacramento area, always enjoying the fun but searching constantly for ways to communicate with music and words.
One band of hometown musicians Doug especially liked to play with was a gang of locals who called themselves the Generics. Whether it was the friendships, the music or the incredible amount of local followers, Doug would always remember the times with the Generics as some of the best of his early days in music.
