After steadily writing while both on and off the road over the course of 2010, Tyler Ramsey headed to Nashville, TN, to record his third album The Valley Wind at Alex The Great studio in early January 2011. Friend and bandmate Bill Reynolds (who's worked with The Avett Brothers and Lissie) produced and aided on bass, while friend Seth Kauffman (Floating Action) sat in on drums and guitar, also singing background vocals. Over a rare snowy set of six days in the southern city, Ramsey crafted nine, finely spun songs, keeping the focus on performance as they were played, and letting fresh ideas reveal themselves as they would. The sessions were intense; the three musicians separated and insulated from most normal daily goings-on during the recording period. The result: a crystalline yet warm album, filled with Ramsey's rich, plaintive vocals and expressive, intricate guitar playing. Ramsey is perhaps most immediately recognizable as the tall, lean guitarist in Band Of Horses. A well-established and praised guitar player and singer in the burgeoning music scene of Asheville, NC where he calls home, he first learned to play music on piano before moving to the guitar. Ramsey grew up listening to and studying country-blues guitar players like Mance Lipscomb and Mississippi John Hurt, and American finger pickers like John Fahey and Leo Kottke, absorbing their sound and making it all his own.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Raven Shadow
2. The Valley Wind
3. 1000 Black Birds
4. The Nightbird
5. Stay Gone
6. Time Is A Changing Line
7. Angel Band
8. When It's Done
9. All Night