Multi-instrumentalist Tyler Ramsey as a recording artist sort of disappeared from the radar after the release from his The Valley Wind album in 2011. But now he returns with a new record, For The Morning. Not much has changed since his last one. Melancholy still reigns supreme, with lead single White Coat as a first taste. It's a gentle love song, both to his lady of choice as well as the mountains, rivers and trees that surround his home in North Carolina.
Multi-instrumentalist Tyler Ramsey knows how to hold to back. His sophomore album A Long Dream About Swimming Across The Sea landed him a job as the lead guitarist for Band of Horses, required him to turn things up a little. As a solo artist he persists in creating mainly acoustic songs. His third solo release The Valley Wind is bit more country than its predecessors. Recording took only six days Alex The Great studio in Nashvile, TN, with Band Of Horses band mate Bill Reynolds (bass and producing) an Seth Kauffman (Floating Action) on drums, guitar, background vocals.
Ramsey has a voice filled with melancholy and using echo in songs like 1000 Black Birds and Time Is A Changing Line makes him sounds a bit like the missing link between Ryan Adams and Neil Young. As an accomplished guitar picker channeling his heroes John Fahey and Leo Kottke, Ramsey has the ability to conjure up notes that are not there, The Valley Wind is an intimate, intricate album. With the lonesome The Nightbird Ramsey has written a welcome addition for the playlists of late night Americana radio shows.
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 Bill Reynolds on electric ands upright bass and Brian Landrum on drums he paints his songs like a picture, adding color with a few extra players on fiddle, violin, viola, cello, pedal steel and vibraphone.
