Jonathan Ramsey

It’s been a while since I’ve put a new free MP3 up. So, here’s a snarling tribute to Fiach MacHugh O’Byrne, Follow Me Up To Carlow. This is Podsafe, and released under a Creative Commons Non-Commercial, Attribution, Share-alike license. That means you can copy it, give it to your friends, make videos with it. If you do something fun with it, let me know. I’d like to see.

Follow Me Up To Carlow Play MP3

Some of you know that I’m taking part in the RPM Challenge. I’ll put some songs up in the next day or two, both here, and on the RPM Challenge website.

The result will be a new CD, of all new material, and entirely recorded during the month of February. I have an extra day this year, so how could I not try.

I’m still disappointed that I’m not able to record the thing from within an AMC Pacer. Maybe, this summer, when Pacers get up to 90 degrees Centigrade!

Here’s a little holiday cheer. It’s a happy song about loss of consciousness during the festive Yule season.

Christmas in Catatonia is available right here with the very open Creative Commons attribution, non-commercial, share-alike license. So, feel free to share with anyone you like, and you are even free to create any derivative work you like, such as a video, or mix it into a house track. (Trance might be easier with this one, and more festive.)

Have fun. And don’t poke your eye out.

Christmas in Catatonia (Jonathan Ramsey/Ramsey Music)       Podsafe Christmas Song

All right! Here’s another track from Friday evening’s in-store performance at Borders in lovely St Peters, MO. Thanks so much to the people who came out, that evening. Special thanks to the fine students from O’Fallon West, and every other high school represented. You guys were a lot of fun!

Also, as 11 September comes around a bit too fast for me, each year, I still find myself in a bit of a navel-gazing remembrance mode, today. So, I can’t think of a better way to celebrate the heroism of the first responders, and the strong attitudes that make me lovingly miss being in the city that never sleeps, than to offer this biting tale of an iconic arse-kicking New Yorker.

Writing this one makes me need tissues. BRB…

So, here is the Big… Strong… Man!

Big, Strong, Man >play

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Here is the first free MP3 from Friday night’s show at Borders in St Peters, MO. The crowd participation rivaled that of many pubs. Normally, I wouldn’t have done this song in a bookstore or coffee house setting.

Golden Handles play

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I had a great time, Friday evening, at the Border in St Peters, MO. Thank you to all my new friends, and old friends, there, for making it such a good time. Thanks to the students of O’Fallon West High School, and all other schools well represented that night.

If you have photos and video, just leave me a comment, and I’ll go check them out.

The recording came out well, so I’ll post some MP3s, here and on MySpace. So, watch for that in the next few hours and days.

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Last month, I was riding the Metrolink, and it struck me that I hadn’t heard anything about Paris Hilton for a few weeks. That’s no longer true, since Granddad Hilton announced the inheritance amendments, a week or so ago.

Anyway, I wrote this song, a followup to a song I wrote during the Paris/Sheriff/Judge fiasco.

I’m publishing this under the Creative Commons non-commercial, attribution, share-alike license, so play around with it, if you like. You can also freely share it, as long as you freely share it for free.

Cheers!

Paris in July Play Song

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The coffeehouse rocked with a little musical taste of punch –proof unknown. Enjoy this tasty tidbit of musical history. It’s a traditional song, and, as usual, I’ve released the recording under the Creative Commons Attribution, Non-Commercial, Share-Alike license. This allows for sharing the song with friends, making videos, and for use in sampling and rapping over. So, be creative, if you like. I’d love to see or hear anything you come up with.

Jug of Punch Click the play button to listen

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Here’s a track from my show, last weekend, at Hartford Community Coffee. “Bonny Ship the Diamond” is, of course, what else, sung from the perspective of randy Scottish whalers preparing to sail off and find their great fortune in blubber. Of course, this song is a bit ironic for me, in that I wholly believe that this practice has no place in the modern world. Whale populations are in grave danger. I’ll have to put up my song from the whale’s perspective.

Again, since this is a traditional song, I own no rights to the original words –as it were. This recording is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution, Non-Commercial, Share-alike License. So, feel free to make copies and give to your friends, family, whalers you meet on the street in your town. You can also make derivative works, like music videos, samples, and so on. I’d like to hear about it, because that’s fun, of course. Otherwise, you don’t need to contact me about it, unless it’s for commercial purposes.

Cheers!

Bonny Ship the Diamond Click the Play button to listen

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Next up, “Roddy McCorley”, written by Ethna Carbery about 100 years after the event in question. Not long before the 1798 Uprisings, the Presbyterian McCorleys were evicted from their farm, following the death of Roddy’s father. McCorley took part in the 1798 Uprisings in Co. Antrim, then went into hiding. He was betrayed and captured a year later and hanged in Toome, Co. Antrim, on Good Friday, 1799. The British soldiers dissected his body and buried it under the road between Derry and Belfast. Half a century later, his body was recovered and place in a proper, if unmarked, burial site.

Feel free to stream, download, share, create derivative works all you like. I’ve released this recording under a Creative Commons Non-Commercial, Attribution, Share-Alike License. So, you can mix it, share it, use it in videos, what have you. Just let me know, if you might make money from it.

Cheers!

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