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Artist Information
Biography
Craig Ramsey is a singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist/producer based in Cleveland, Ohio. As one half of the indie-pop duo Bears Craig has toured the country behind three critically acclaimed albums, sharing stages with likeminded groups such as Camera Obscura, Tilly And The Wall, and The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart. On his stunning solo debut, Parting Gift for a Party Girl, he crafts hopeful odes and bittersweet goodbyes chronicling the late autumn of an ill-starred relationship. Fans of chamber-pop classics by George Harrison, The Zombies, and The Beach Boys will immediately recognize the colors on Craig’s palette. But while the instrumentation suggests sweetness and light, there’s a shadow running across the face of the album’s sunny-seeming pop. It’s this contrast that initially grabs your ears and ultimately catches your heart. Resigned melodies fight the uplift of lush arrangements, cooing harmonies wrap themselves around biting lyrics, recriminations leave their mark in major keys, the door slams—gently. The effect gives the self-produced album a rare immediacy and maximum intimacy that may well prove as timeless as its musical influences, if not its inspiration.
Instrumentation
Craig Ramsey - Drums Vox
Dave Shehane - Guitar Vox
Jeremy Leuenberger - Guitar Vox
Erin Kapferer - Keys Vox
Greg Gebhard - Bass Vox
Discography
LP - parting gift for a party girl - Local college radioplay, and streaming online @ www.myspace.com/craigramsey
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Audio
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We Are Crashing
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If You Won't Try
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Right Back Where We Were
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Love Knows No Age
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Now We're Here
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I Want You There
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On Your Own
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Some Days
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Some Things Never Change
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Going To Bed
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You'll Please Them All
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I'm Making You Think
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Setlist
Right Back Where We Were
We Are Crashing
Love Knows No Age
If You Won't Try
Now We're Here
I Want You There
On Your Own
Some Days
Some Things Never Change
Going To Bed
You'll Please Them All
I'm Making You Think
Other songs incluce Bears songs, and Beatles songs.
Set list typically ranges from 30 minutes to one hour.