Jonathan Ramsey

I would have loved to have done something productive, but I knew going in that 1 Feb would be a day spent away from home til after 10PM. Tonight I will put down a working (perhaps scratch) cut of a new song. I imagine these first weeks will involve an hour or so –or less- each weekday, then 2-5 hours total over the weekend.

As far as songs, I’m actually still writing much of the material. I have some songs I’ve written and lost, because I wasn’t fond of the first shots. Rewriting from scratch can be liberating. I’ve already gone through one approach to an idea. I have usually found my second tries much better than the firsts.

Here are a couple photos of my studio showing the equipment I’m using. It’s pretty minimal –PC, preamps, vocal mic on boom, instrument mic (behind piano), piano (to block view of the instrument mic).

As a quick update, I’ve managed to rearrange cables, placing previously errant ones behind the desk. My workspace is coming into shape.

I’ll post various ideas, working song titles, project titles, artwork, etc, as things progress. I’m also thinking of having you, my friends and fans, post artwork possibilities. We can even make a contest out of it. Maybe all fans can vote on the entries, and the winning entry goes onto the CD materials, and the winner receives a free copy, a t-shirt, and some fun DVDs, or something like that.

What do you think? Post a comment or send an email with your ideas!

Okay, here’s the real numero uno, the big cheese, the first one I did, a few days ago, and should have posted on Sunday.

Well, yeah. It’s a rough mix of “Mein Hut er hat einen Pickel”, a little “folk” tune that I’ve plagiarized a genuine folk tune to create.

Anywho, this is a little something that’s been bugging the dark places in my brain for a couple of years. It will have an animated video to go along with it.

Mein Hut er hat einen Pickel Play

Here is numero uno. Actually, it’s number two, but we’ll cover that later.

Where Are Connor’s Pants Play

Well, my sophomoric –errr sophomore- solo CD has made it into the catalog at indie champion CD Baby, now. This means that, soon, it will show up on iTunes and Amazon.

If you’re waiting for the iTunes arrival, you can still find my first solo CD, Jonathan Ramsey in iTunes. Watch for “At Cruisin’ Route 66″, very soon.

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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