India Ramey blazes a trail through cinematic spaghetti western landscapes to wood floored honky-tonks and the Appalachian foothills.

Featured as one of the “Must See Acts at SXSW “(No Depression, Austin Chronicle), a Nashville’s Lighting 100 artist of the week, a two-time Americana Fest showcasing artist, and one of NPR’s “10 Nashville Artists on the Rise”, India has only continued to rise among the ranks of as one of Country and Americana’s brightest up and coming artists.

Ramey’s last two albums mix Americana noire, country and southern-gothic songwriting to help expand Ramey’s reputation far beyond the Deep South and she’s toured heavily around and beyond those releases. Her most recent album, Shallow Graves debuted at #6 on the Euro Americana Charts and landed a song as Rolling Stone’s pick of the week.

Ramey has just completed recording a new album with Grammy award-winning producer, Luke Wooten (The SteelDrivers, Brad Paisley, Dierks Bentley, Sunny Sweeny, Jim Lauderdale). The new album combines India’s classic country sound with her dark cinematic imagery cohesively and seamlessly.

Anna Ash writes songs of profound, startling, sensuous insight. Call it country, call it rock’n’roll, call it pulling off the road somewhere between Silver Lake and Bakersfield just to roll a cigarette, kick at the gravel, and brood. She’s released four full-length albums, but has become widely known due to the success of her version of “Righteously,” a song written by Lucinda Williams. “It was the outtake from my 2016 album Floodlights, recorded in Northfield, Minnesota with engineers Michael Morris and George Zuccolotto, and mixed in L.A. by Ben Tolliday. I had plans of maybe releasing a 7 inch with the other Lucinda cover from the album, but no one in the band liked “Righteously,” so I forgot about it for awhile and then just uploaded it to tunecore one night after a waitressing shift, on a whim, depressed and sort of like, Who cares what anyone else thinks!” Within weeks the song had hundreds of thousands of streams, and a few months later was used in an episode of Billions.

The nine songs on her follow up album L.A. Flame — recorded during the summer of 2018 and released in September 2019 — are sparse and warm, tightly arranged and shrewdly observed. It’s a tumultuous record — mellow then volatile, withdrawn then confrontational, full of revelations, recriminations, revisions, and revivals. “This isn’t the first time I let me spirit die,” she sings knowingly on “Required Ending.”

In January of 2022 she released her fourth album, and first with Oklahoma indie-label Black Mesa Records. Sleeper is infused with an emotional intelligence that conjures nostalgia with the memory of a middle school boyfriend’s cologne and evokes a tenderness specific to L.A. in an evening full of car alarms, fireworks, and the rare California lilac. But she knows, too, that such knowledge will not spare her from heartache, from the weight of the past, from the wildfire drawing ever closer. Rueful, wise, sardonic, Sleeper plays like a Sally Rooney book if the novelist could palm-mute a Silvertone and launch her voice into cathartic falsettos.

Ash’s songs regularly feature on soundtracks (Billions, Masters of Sex, The Fosters) and curated playlists (Fresh Folk, Noir) and her fans will recognize that trademark textured guitar and soaring voice. On Sleeper, though, the tight pocket of previous albums gives way to more spacious arrangements and atmospherics — buoyant keys, group harmonies, pedal steel and horns. Ash recorded the album in two sessions: The first in November 2020 in the Catskills, amid the uncertainty of the pandemic; the second in April 2021 in L.A., both recorded live to tape. And you hear it on the album — there’s an urgency, an immediacy to the album, as if Ash is processing this perilous moment (and all the ones before) in real-time. Sleeper, then, is a soundtrack of sorts, trenchant songs to score the moments when memories play life movies and the fire is at your door.

She is currently working on her fifth album, and will be releasing a collaborative Christmas album in November, 2024.

LISTEN to India Ramey :: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1z3MylQuygGpO5eD1fvs6Q…

LISTEN to Anna Ash :: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1QyjHJQb3WeWFxXaNLpLOw…