Award-winning Marianas Trench frontman Josh Ramsay, releases his debut solo album The Josh Ramsay Show today, April 8th, via 604 Records.
The Josh Ramsay Show includes an all-star list of collaborators and showcases Ramsay’s astonishing musical versatility. The album’s first single, “Lady Mine,” is a blistering hard rock track that features Nickelback’s Chad Kroeger. Ramsay also ventures into modern country on “Best Of Me” (featuring Dallas Smith), ’80s funk on “Beat The Devil” (featuring Serena Ryder), and dreamy, anthemic pop on “Can’t Give It Up (featuring Tyler Shaw).
“I really wanted to write something upbeat, fun, and irreverent, so I just hope it’s an uplifting listen for people,” he says. “I don’t think anyone needs to hear a sad-sack album right now. Losing your parents is a tough thing – something everyone will go through – but I’m in a positive place. So, even songs about that, I wanted them to be uplifting. I didn’t want it to feel like grief. I wanted it to feel like love.“
Writing The Josh Ramsay Show was an opportunity for Ramsay to step outside of his comfort zone and dig deep, reflecting on his experiences of love and loss, and the confusion that can arise when the two coincide. Over the past two years, he’s experienced the pain of losing both his parents, along with the jubilation of getting married. All of those emotions come out on the songs “Miles And Miles” (featuring Ramsay’s sister Sara), “Spellbound” and “Like You Do”.
As with every project he takes on, Ramsay wanted to push his personal limitations and challenge himself as a songwriter, singer, player, and producer. In a true solo effort, Ramsay wrote, produced, and played all the instruments on the new album, with the exception of orchestral parts. Ramsay’s hands-on, experimental approach has always been a defining characteristic of his output as with Marianas Trench, and in his role as producer and songwriter for artists like Carly Rae Jepsen, whose worldwide hit, ‘Call Me Maybe’ garnered Ramsay a Grammy nomination and a SOCAN Award for “Most Performed Song” in SOCAN history.
Ramsay has toured with Marianas Trench extensively in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. When not on the move, the multi-instrumentalist runs his own recording studio, The Umbrella Factory, in Vancouver, BC.
Ramsay will embark on a solo tour next month in support of The Josh Ramsay Story.
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