Music:
Member Since: 22/12/2006
Band Website: www.ezfolk.com/audio/johnramsay
Influences: My tastes are like my schooling was - very catholic. my earliest real loves were the Beatles,the Stones and anything else Jimmy Saville played on his Sunday morning sixties show, then (ahem) Mud and Showaddywaddy (I still have an extremely embarassing affection for Gary Glitter's music), then bands like The Specials, The Jam and Ian Dury and the Blockheads - but all of those bands had a list of influences that read like a list of sweets in a sweetshop to me - so I got into earlier ska, sixties soul, da da da da. I love people like Tom Waits, or Serge Gainsbourg, who cast their net very wide but always seem to land something nobody else could have caught. I love Elvis Costello and Elvis Presley, Dolly Parton and Hank Williams, Ash, James Taylor, Burt Baccarach, Duke Ellington (not a big jazz fan - but he was amazing), Disney songs (the early stuff was amazing - not so into their later output - bit like Elvis Costello and Paul Weller, in fact)- anyway, you get the idea.
Record Label: Unsigned