Willis Alan Ramsey LIVE at the Harbor Room at The INN at Fulton Harbor

Over 50 years after the release of his wildly influential self-titled album on Leon Russell’s Shelter Records, Willis Alan Ramsey returns to touring. Ramsey’s debut in 1972 earned scores of accolades from artists ranging from The Allman Brothers to Lyle Lovett. The album was mined by many artists for their own recordings including Jimmy Buffett’s “The Ballad of Spider John”, Jimmie Dale Gilmore’s “Goodbye Old Missoula”, Shawn Colvin’s “Satin Sheets”, Captain & Tennille’s “Muskrat Candlelight/Love”, Jerry Jeff Walker’s “Northeast Texas Women”, Waylon Jennings’ “Satin Sheets”, New Grass Revival’s “Watermelon Man”, and many more. Since that landmark first release, Ramsey has toured only occasionally, spending time instead with his family, honing his craft in Austin, Nashville, and London, educating himself in the science of audio recording and composing new songs. His new material has received critical acclaim, including Lyle Lovett’s recordings of “Sleepwalkin”, “North Dakota”, and “That’s Right (You’re Not From Texas”), as well as Eric Clapton’s recording of “Positively”. Ramsey’s infrequent personal appearances always garner excitement among some of the top critics in the country as well as from his fellow artists.

“When I got his record, I loved everything on it. I heard some Flannery O’Connor and William Faulkner in there. It was a little more literary than most of the Texas stuff.” – Jimmy Buffett “I learned every song off his record. I went to see him every time he played, got tennis shoes like his. I wanted to be Willis Alan Ramsey.” – Lyle Lovett