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KBCS Presents: David Ramirez w/ Garrett Owen

KBCS Presents: David Ramirez w/ Garrett Owen


October 16, 2024

David Ramirez took a little time to get back to himself, and now he’s dead set on makingmusic for himself—for the sake of the music... and nothing else.“I love all the records I’ve made in the past. But in making them, there was always thethought in the back of my mind of where and what it could get me. I made both creativeand business decisions with a goal in mind... a goal that often never came. This time itwas all about just the joy of making it, about having fun with it.”The Austin, TX-based singer-songwriter—whose decades-long career has seen six full-length studio albums, three EPs, countless collaborations, and an illustrious supergroupproject in Glorietta—spent a season of rest away from his focus on writing songs. Inthewake of the end of a long relationship, he wanted to prioritize processing his grief as ahuman, not as an artist bleeding on the page.“The last thing I wanted was to write a heartbreak record. So I stopped writingaltogether, and I just waited until I saw my heart start coming back to life. I wanted thenext thing to be hopeful and sweet and beautiful—a testament to music and my love forit.”David’s new recordAll the Not So Gentle Reminders, which comes outin the late fall, isexactly what he was waiting for. The 12-song album is an expansive succession ofdreamlike songs that tell his stories, yes—but more than anything lean into thepossibilities of the trip that music can take us on.“I’ve been a songwriter for a long time. I love words and stories. But this was aboutmusic. I wanted the long musical intros and outros[as on“Dirty Martini”, “Twin SizedBeds”, “A Bigger World”, and “Dreams Come True”]to contribute to the stories and be apart of them.”

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