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Ned Sublette is a singer-songwriter and author. Trained as a composer and classical guitarist, his albums include Kiss You Down South (forthcoming), Cowboy Rumba (Palm Pictures) and, in collaboration with Lawrence Weiner, Monsters from the Deep and Ships at Sea, Sailors and Shoes (Excellent). His best-known song; Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly, was released in a version by Willie Nelson in 2006.

A frequent collaborator with Vidas Perfectas music producer Peter Gordon, Sublette is a longstanding member of Gordon’s Love of Life Orchestra.

Known for his work integrating musical, cultural, and political history, he has published three books: Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo Chicago Review Press; ASCAP Deems Taylor Award winner); The World that Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square (Lawrence Hill Books; Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Book of the Year for 2009); and The Year Before the Flood (Lawrence Hill), a memoir of living in Louisiana in two different eras. In collaboration with his wife Constance Sublette, he is currently working on The American Slave Coast, about the slave trade in the making of the US economy.