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A Conversation with Bo Ramsey (continued)
PM: Are there artists that come to mind with whom you'd love to play, but have not yet had the opportunity?
BR: Oh, God. [laughs] I guess I never really think about it that way. I remember when I first heard Greg Brown. I walked into a club, and he was playing. I didn't even know him. And I heard him up there, sitting up there by himself. And I thought, "I could play with that guy."
PM: Wow.
BR: And then like three or four years later, we met, and we started playing together. It was just a feeling I had coming through the air. [One of our very earliest interviews was in 2001 with Greg Brown, check it out.]
And then I remember when I first heard Lucinda, I thought, "God..." I just felt something. It's hard to talk about that stuff, but it's a very natural thing, and it all comes up through the music. I just had a feeling that I would connect with her at some point. And we did.
PM: And how did you connect with her?
BR: Oh, it was wild. She told me she got a record of mine when she was on her way to Australia. She stopped and did a show in Auckland, New Zealand. And some guy over there gave her a copy of one of my records, called Down to Bastrop.
PM: That's amazing.
BR: And I came home one night from the gig, and there was a message on my answering machine, and it was a message from Lucinda Williams--
PM: Damn!
BR: --just saying she had heard this record. And then we met. So it was all through the music.
PM: Right.
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