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Tyler Ramsey AudioTree Live Session Tracklisting:
We Were A Small Town
Where Were You
Fires
These Ghosts
Behind the songs, as told by Tyler Ramsey:
These Ghosts
‘These Ghosts’ is the lead single off the record and is a song Ramsey says, “is for anyone who has left a bad situation behind them only to look down and realize they are still carrying it with them somehow. Letting go - even letting go of something that’s no good - can take time. The pain in your head is just the smoke from a fire that burned out a long time ago.”
We Were A Small Town
“‘We Were A Small Town’ is a love song. For me it’s about that lasting love. Love that is shaped by trials and time, but endures always and grows more beautiful as it weathers. It’s also about having a long relationship with a place and seeing it change over time- could be any town- could be your town.”
Where Were You
“I am a person that craves solitude- being alone I can reconnect with emotions that I might otherwise try and hold off. And sometimes being away from your life and the people you love helps you see them more clearly. This song came out of being alone when I really needed to be.”
Fires
“Fires is about climbing out of a hole somebody tried to push me in. It’s getting your footing again after dealing with dark times and insincere people. I carried this song for many miles and most of it was written on trails near my house as I tried to walk out of the way I’d been feeling.”
LISTEN TO NEW LOST AGES
Ramsey will kick off his Spring and Summer touring on May 11 at the Albino Skunk Music Festival in Greer, SC before heading out for several solo dates around the Midwest supporting the Secret Sisters, Lissie and The White Buffalo, and a headline show at Raccoon Motel. In September, Ramsey will take his band out to support the Airborne Toxic Event around the US, before heading to Europe in the late fall.
New Lost Ages was recorded at the legendary Avast! Recording Co. in Seattle, Washington, by storied producer Phil Ek (Fleet Foxes, Father John Misty, The Shins, Built to Spill). The 10-song LP is an ongoing sonic quest — meticulously wandering across the musical landscape, this undulating tone of indie, rock and folk stylings.
TYLER RAMSEY ON TOUR
May 11 @ Albino Skunk Music Festival | Greer, SC
May 17 @ The Southgate House Revival | Newport, KY* - SOLD OUT
May 18 @ Old Town School of Folk Music | Chicago, IL* - SOLD OUT
May 19 @ The Parkway Theater | Minneapolis, MN* - SOLD OUT
May 20 @ The Parkway Theater | Minneapolis, MN* - SOLD OUT
July 10 @ Raccoon Motel | Davenport, IA
July 11 @ The Hook and Ladder | Minneapolis, MN^
July 12 @ The Castle Theatre | Bloomington, IL**
July 14 @ Vivarium | Milwaukee, WI**
July 18 @ Park Rhythms Concert Series | Black Mountain, NC
Aug 1-4 @ AVL Fest 2024 | Asheville, NC
Sept 5 @ Red Butte Garden - Outdoor Concert Series | Salt Lake City, UT#
Sept 7 @ The Van Buren | Phoenix, AZ#
Sept 9 @ The Echo Lounge & Music Hall | Dallas, TX#
Sept 10 @ The Heights Theater | Houston, TX#
Sept 11 @ Emo’s | Austin, TX#
Sept 13 @ Variety Playhouse | Atlanta, GA#
Sept 14 @ The Underground | Charlotte, NC#
Sept 16 @ 930 Club | Washington, D.C.#
Sept 19 @ Citizens House of Blues | Boston, MA#
Sept 20 @ Warsaw | Brooklyn, NY
Sept 21 @ Webster Hall | New York, NY#
Sept 22 @ White Eagle Hall | Jersey City, NJ#
Sept 24 @ The Fillmore | Philadelphia, PA#
Sept 25 @ Roxian Theatre | McKees Rocks, PA#
Sept 26 @ House of Blues | Cleveland, OH#
Sept 27 @ Saint Andrew's Hall | Detroit, MI#
Sept 29 @ Newport Music Hall | Columbus, OH#
Nov 2 @ TakeRoot Music Festival | Da Groningen, Netherlands
Nov 3 @ TivoliVredenburg | Utrecht, Netherlands
*supporting The Secret Sisters
^w/ Lissie
**w/ The White Buffalo
#w/ The Airborne Toxic Event
About:
At the core of any great singer-songwriter lies this inherent trait of stage presence, one where an entire room, no matter the size, is pulled in by this lyrical tractor beam — all eyes, emotions and energies aimed in one direction at a single voice. For Tyler Ramsey, it’s being able to honestly connect with the listener.
Albeit a genuinely humble soul, don’t let Ramsey fool you. When it comes to the modern-day singer-songwriter, he remains a bastion of musical talent and lyrical aptitude — a melodic voice-of-reason and safe haven amid a 21st century world seemingly gone mad. The former lead guitarist of Band of Horses, Ramsey has also released four acclaimed solo albums, including “For The Morning” in 2019.
The new album is about peeling back the layers of oneself, to locate and open up the dusty boxes of your past from the back of the closet of your mind. It’s memories and mistakes, lessons and lifelines bringing the present moment into focus — the future bright with possibility and purpose, so long as you never forget the road to the here and now.
Alongside bassist Morgan Henderson (Fleet Foxes) and drummer Sean Lane (Ann Wilson), Ramsey found himself fronting a full-on rock outfit in the studio, a scenario that conjured fresh inspiration and straightforward determination within the recording process — something genuinely heard and felt in the hauntingly poignant number “These Ghosts.”
Pushing further and farther down the rabbit hole of “New Lost Ages,” the melodies are aimed at sincere connectivity through honesty and vulnerability — symbiotic realms that nurture the genuine splendor and lore of Ramsey’s recordings and stoic stage presence in a live setting.
If anything, everything Ramsey has absorbed in his travels — onstage and on the road — is continually channeled through the unique lens of his words, unique tunings and guitar chords. It’s a whirlwind of sound and scope, all radiating from one human being with guitar in-hand, a silent room of curious souls awaiting the next number of beauty and grace conjured by Ramsey with such ease.
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