India Ramey Singer - FREE Pavilion Show

230 West Washington Street,Rensselaer IN 47978

23 June, 2022

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American singer-songwriter, INDIA RAMEY, will be performing Thursday, June 23!  FREE outdoor pavilion concert. FREE SHOWMake sure to make your table reservation by reserving tickets through this link OR by calling 219.869.9537India Ramey’s Shallow Graves kicks off with a shudder of woozy, western guitar, sounding as much like the soundtrack to some long-lost cowboy epic as the follow-up to Ramey’s critically- acclaimed national debut, Snake Handler. Progressive, gritty, and darkly cinematic, this is a rec- ord inspired by the turbulent present, stockpiled with songs that take aim at the liars, leaders, and hypocrites among us. Ramey calls it her “post-apocalyptic western,” and she fills the al- bum’s track list with plenty of fury and alt-country firepower to match. Years before recording Shallow Graves at Nashville’s House of Blues Studios, Ramey kicked off her songwriting career in Alabama, where she balanced her nighttime gigs as a big-voiced ban- dleader with her daytime career as a district attorney. She’d been raised in rural Georgia, and she’d gone to law school in order to help women who, like her own mother, found themselves in abusive situations. It was good work, but Ramey couldn’t quite shake her musical compulsion, which she’d been cultivating since childhood. After releasing independent albums like Junkyard Angel and Blood Crescent Moon, she took a break from the legal work and moved to Nashville, where she wrote and recorded Snake Handler. The album’s mix of Americana noire and south- ern-gothic songwriting helped expand Ramey’s reputation far beyond the Deep South, and she toured heavily behind its release. Along the way, she took note of a changing country whose residents’ lives were being shaped by politicians who often prioritized their own agendas over the needs and interests of their constituents. When it came time to write a new collection of songs, Ramey didn’t have to look too far for inspiration. A stripped-down cover of Hank Williams’s “Angel of Death” brings Shallow Graves to a close. It’s a contemplative finish — one that finds Ramey looking at her own actions, measuring them against the code of ethics by which she measures the rest of the world. On a record that skew- ers the dishonest and emboldens the disheartened, “Angel of Death” reminds us that everyone — Ramey included — has room to grow. “This album speaks out against corruption and hypocrisy,” she explains, “and there are a lot of people these days who feel they hold a moral high ground and throw around things like religion to maintain their position of power. I chose this Hank Williams song to punctuate this album with the questions he’s asking. At the end of your days, can you really say you were good? Did you do the just and moral thing? Did you?” India Ramey Website Don't Miss our other upcoming Concerts:Aug. 18 - Kyle CoxSept. 3 - Matt Hires