Born and raised in the blue-collar Mississippi River town of Burlington, Iowa in 1951, Robert Franklin "Bo" Ramsey is perhaps best known for his collaboration/friendship with revered folksinger Greg Brown. Ramsey has played guitar on nine of Brown's discs, and produced/co-produced 1990's Down In There, 1994's The Poet Game, 1996's Further In, 1997's Grammy-nominated Slant 6 Mind, 2000's Covenant, and 2006's The Evening Call (all on Red House Records), as well as 2000's Over And Under and 2004's Honey In The Lion's Head for Trailer Records.
Bo co-produced the Grammy-nominated record 'Essence' for Lucinda Williams, and has produced records for Iris Dement, Pieta Brown, Jeffrey Foucault, Kevin Gordon, Dave Moore, Teddy Morgan and others. He has toured with Willams, and appeared with her on "The Late Show With David Letterman", "The Tonight Show" with Jay Leno, and "Late Night With Conan O'Brien." Other tube appearances include playing with Lucinda and Elvis Costello in the first segment of CMT's "Crossroads" series and again with Lucinda in award-winning German film director Wim Wenders' "Soul Of A Man" segment for Martin Scorsese's seven-part series on the blues for public television.
Bo's distinctive, inimitable guitar sounds have graced the recorded works of artists such as Kate Campbell, Calexico, Pete Seeger with Larry Long ,Ani DiFranco and Iris DeMent. He has also recorded eight albums under his own name, four which remain in print; "Down to Bastrop", "In the Weeds", "Stranger Blues" and "Fragile" all available at CDbaby.com.
Bo's complete profile is available at his website, .
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Hey Friend!!!! Thanks for the Friendship Add!!! Much appreciated.
This is the site dedicated to the music me and my sons make. We have a
blast doing it. I also have a personal musician page
(myspace.com/stevenrshields) and a page for my recording studio
(myspace.com/studiosixsteve). Give us a listen. It's something we
love to do. Thanks, Steve
Thanks for adding me as a friend, Bo. Your songs are as haunting as anything I have heard in a long time. With a beguiling simplicity that belies the depth within. They stay in my head.
Hey Bo, thanks for the shout back, but seriously, only saw you a couple of times and met ya..but you'll always be a great inspiration for me. Just wanted to give credit where credit is due.......stay cool J. BTW, great show at the Duck Duck, years ago. gotta live tape of that show somewhere if your interested?
Hey Bo, Great show at McCabes in Santa Monica. Love your playin' and tone! It was a real pleasure meetin' ya and thanks for takin' a couple of minutes to chat. Keep on doin' it! Cheers... Brophy Dale
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Great to see your still kickin it Bo. Last time I saw you was at the Duck Duck Goose in Green bay 1980 with Mike and the rest of the hee-haw gang. Went to see Ron Conkin and Kurt play in Columbia last month; he says hey. You take care man. J.
I see Greg is playing in Bellingham in October... will you be playing with him? I hope so, I am planning on going to the show. Do you know if there are any opening acts?
Hey i want to let you, and all my friends with whom i visit, that i always enjoy stopping by, even tho it's my bad i don't always get around to leaving a comment. But this time, i was thinkin bout how my mom taught me better. When u enter a room, u supposed to speak first to the people there, they not supposed to have to speak first lol. Even though, I know I am usually really busy recording my next album and everything, no excuses. So yea i wanted to say wassup, i like visiting your and others page when i wanna read, listen to music n stuff. U got a cool spot, and i hope your year is shaping up better than last year. Our life is supposed to get greater and greater right? Well let me know how everything is going with your goals for this year! ttyl
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