Music

Ramsay Midwood's career began with a beer commercial in L.A. “Beer and women had a lot to do with it,” he mused. Midwood's raw, bluesy tunes, much like his story, are distinctly American: rough, rambling, heartfelt and somewhere, Midwood finds time for profundity. He's a man who naturally drawls out colloquialisms like “feller,” crafting love and murder tales under the creaky shambles of barroom piano and banjo. Or offering crackpot drifter philosophy like: “Spider had some trouble with the law/went to Thunder Bay to get a tombstone for his pa/But everybody knows that everybody goes/It's bound to happen to us all.”