MD Ransom,
Flower,
Snug,
featuring: Dennis Randazzo (guitar), Tony Noe (guitar, vox), Misstress Morgana (vox), David Cooper (vox, synth, vibes) and Paul Rebhan (precussion)
Influences
Bob Dylan, Jim Morrison, John Lennon, Johnny Cash, Jackson Browne, Cat Stevens, Tom Waits, Woody Guthrie, Leonard Cohen, Bruce Springsteen, Tori Amos, Kate Bush, Adam Duritz, Bono, Walt Whitman, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Phillip Levine, Ernest Hemingway, J.R.R. Tolkien, William Shakespeare, William Blake, Chaucer, Milton, Kerouac, Carlos Casteneda, Jesus Christ, Annie Sprinkle, Rumi, Andre Breton, Sea Aviar, Erte, Frank Lloyd Wright, Jackson Pollack, Ingmar Bergman, Phillip Glass, Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed, Debra Harry, Peter Gabriel, Ang Lee, David Byrne, Paul Simon, Willie Mays, Thurman Munson, Tom Seaver, Walter Payton, Lindsey Nelson, Jack Buck, Walter Cronkite, Don Imus, Howard Stern, Jim Kerr, Karl Marx, Foucault, Homer, Virgil, The Classic Greeks, Caligula Ceasar, Oscar Wilde, Marquis de Sade, Johnny Depp, James Earl Jones, John Malcovich, Al Pacino, Robert Dinero, Willem DeFoe, Jewel, Sam Shephard, Richard Foreman, Butch from the Little Rascals, Lee Sanna, Moe, Larry, and Curly, Grocho and Harpo, John Belushi, Bill Murray, Steve Martin, Andrew Dice Clay, Steven Wright, Richard Petty, Bobby Allison, Jim Elliot, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, Jimmie Page and John Henry Bonham, Crispus Attucks, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., Harriet Tubman, Patric Henry, Thomas Jefferson, JFK, RFK, Deepak Chopra, my friends 46Bliss, Tony Noe, Paul Rebhan, my mom, my dad, my sisters, my cousins, the nations of England, Scotland, Wales, France, Ireland, Spain, Mexico, Japan and my wife Jennifer Scott Mobley.
MDRansom is native Staten Islander who came to Brooklyn via Manhattan. At diverse times he's a poet, actor, singer/songwriter and student. Credits include: The Whitehorse Theater Company's workshop production of a new American play by Greg Lemoine, directed by Cyndy A. Marion: HALF co-starring his lovely wife Jennifer Scott Mobley, Gallethea at HERE in the American Living Room, A reading of Junos Swans (2econd Stage), The King of Cimarron County (Soho Rep), I Will Go, I Will Go (Cherry Lane Alternative), The Blind (Brooklyn College Studio Theater), Winter Love (ATA), Like A Springsteen Song by Scott Brooks at the Blue Heron Arts Center along with numerous parts in indie films including "The Brotherhood" by Adam Grabel and the film version of the afore mentioned "Like a Springsteen Song". He has delivered his brand of poetry in such NYC venues as the now defunct Biblio's and The Red Room with Reckless in Hell's Kitchen, the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and others. He's performed at such venues as The Vault, HellFire, Platos Retreat, Le Trapez and others with such luminaries as Ron Jeremy, Marc Stevens and John Leslie. His spoken word CD, WILD IRON FREEDOM, is available through his website and he is currently in production of his second which includes musical collaborations with Dennis Randazzo, Routh Chadwick, David Cooper and Tony Noe and is proud to be working with the Spirit Guides on how to deal with the violence and maddness of a cruel world without becoming part of the problem. Shout out to Bart Lovins, Stephen Rahe, Lisa France and the Dali Llama Peace.
