ARTIST TO WATCH:
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.. and 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. 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.
A Long Dream About Swimming Across The Sea will be available from Echo Mountain Records. Release date: January 15th 2008. Sarah and I saw him open for Band of Horses and then, take the stage with them as their new guitar player. Really looking forward to the new album in January.
