The double-edged sword of publicity is hovering over Tyler Ramsey . He recently became a guitarist for Band of Horses (who have showed up in more TV ads than Peyton Manning) and is gaining some press as a result. But his record is not the kind that will grab most listeners after a quick once over. It isn't full of big Southern rock epics. He doesn't search for the type of hooks that give songs the immediacy people crave. There are no soaring anthems or sonic explosions and I hope it doesn't lead to [...]
Tyler Ramsey is out on tour opening for Band of Horses . Tyler Ramsey is out on tour WITH Band of Horses. Talk about impressing the band you are supporting… Ty joins BoH as a guitarist. He will ride this wave of success and release next album January, 2008 - A Long Dream About Swimming Across The Sea . Easily this will be called the first best release of '08 . His sound is somewhere between Buffalo Springfield , Leo Kottke & Mark Kozelek . And no, Tyler [...]
Leave it to the ageless David Bowie to look stunning in a mug shot. The Smoking Gun dug up a picture of Ziggy taken in March 1976 after a show in Rochester, New York. The crime? Felony possession of herbal jazz (right, pot). Via The Smoking Gun : Bowie, 29 at the time, was nabbed along with Iggy Pop and two other codefendants at a Rochester hotel following a Saturday concert. Bowie was held in the Monroe County jail for a few hours before being released. The Rochester Police Department mug shot was taken three days after Bowie's arrest, [...]
So Radiohead hosted a party yesterday (hosted, get it?). Everybody was invited, but not everybody could get in -- or get online, as it were. But here's some good news for those who found the party crashed due to tech/bandwith issues, here's a replay. Here's Part One: Entanglement, featuring a reworking of "Harrowdown Hill." It's got a beat and Thom can dance to it. After the jump comes Part Two, in which Radiohead becomes the world's best Björk cover band.
Multi-instrumentalists can't do less is more. They gotta show off. Not so for Tyler Ramsey , an Asheville, NC, based musician who plays guitar, piano, bass and percussion. O yes, he can handle the vocals too. His new album A Long Dream About Swimming Across The Sea is a 101 for an acoustic album. Tyler knows how to hold back and let his instruments do the talking, creating a dreamy atmosphere that is not only filled with wine and roses, but also some deep felt angst and weltsmertz . Backed by [...]
Asheville-based fingerpicking multi-instrumentalist Tyler Ramsey reminds us of both Ryan Adams and Red House Painters, depending on his intonations and the sorts of sadness he weaves into his instrumentation. Or, in his cover of Nico's "These Days," he conjures the original take (or, weirdly, some Astral Weeks Van Morrison) more than say, Elliott Smith in his version. He's sad, but more outwardly expressive: There's a ragged blues to Ramsey's voice as well as his guitar playing, which really opens up and stretches out on tracks like "Birdwings," where he'd work well as a chaser to Leo Kottke [...]
I have always held a fair amount of respect for artists who choose not to hide behind numerous barriers of noise. While I have no issue with the handful of post-rock artists who intricately layer each and every instrumental track with precision, there remains an onslaught of artists of all genres who seek to hide their flaws behind rampant distortion and sloppy chords. It can serve as an easy divider between the truly inspired and the reckless imitators, a thin and fragile line where there are few artists at a wavering point. Sporting a beard that would make most men [...]
Tyler Ramsay may have the first great release of 2008 under his belt with A Long Dream About Swimming Across The Sea ( Echo Mountain ). If that wasn't enough this young singer-songwriter and guitarist has just signed up as new guitarist for and opening band of Band Of Horses. It's too early to proclaim him the second coming (although the long hair and beard make it tempting) on the basis of one song but the boozy delivery on "No One Goes Out Anymore" combined with the slight guazey film on top of the fuzzy [...]
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