Tyler Ramsey with Spencer Thomas @ Hotel Indigo’s Rialto Club (Athens, GA) – Athens, GA

Aubrey Entertainment presents…

Tyler Ramsey with special guest Spencer Thomas

@ Hotel Indigo’s Rialto Club

Thursday January 23, 2025

• Venue is located at 500 College Avenue in downtown Athens, GA
• Tickets are $15 adv (+ tax/fees), $20 day of show
• Limited # of two-top tables available
• All ages are welcome
• All seated show
• Doors open @ 6pm, Music @ 7pm

Tyler Ramsey is an introspective singer-songwriter and unique fingerstyle guitar player who has built a rich catalog rooted in folk and melodic indie rock. Ramsey refined his sound while living in the western mountainous region of North Carolina, where he studied local styles of folk and drew inspiration from country-blues musicians who used to travel through the area. After releasing a solo album, he becamemore widely known as the lead guitarist and songwriter of Band of Horses for 10 years, and contributed heavily to their Grammy-nominated album “Infinite Arms” (2010), as well as “Mirage Rock” (2012) and “Why Are You OK” (2016), each of which included Ramsey originals. During that time, he continued to make his own music, releasing highlights like 2008’s “A Long Dream About Swimming Across the Sea” and 2011’s “The ValleyWind”. Since striking back out on his own, he released the rustic-toned “For The Morning” in 2019 and his latest, “New Lost Ages,” in February 2024, which was captured in Seattle, Washington, by storied producer Phil Ek (Fleet Foxes, Father John Misty). The 10-song LP is an ongoing sonic quest—meticulously wandering across the musical landscape, this undulating tone of indie and folk stylings.

The new album is about peeling back the layers of oneself, to locate and open up the dusty boxes of your past from the back of the closet of your mind. It’s memories and mistakes, lessons and lifelines bringing the present moment into focus—the future bright with possibility and purpose, so long as you never forget the road to the here and now.

If anything, everything Ramsey has absorbed in his travels—onstage and on the road—is continually channeled through the lens of his words, unique tunings and guitar chords. It’s a whirlwind of sound and scope, all radiating from one human being with guitar in-hand, a silent room of curious souls awaiting the next number of beauty and grace conjured by Ramsey with such ease.

Spencer Thomas cut his teeth as a drummer, singer and songwriter for country rockers Young Valley in his hometown of Jackson, MS before striking out on his own and recording the 10-song LP “Hangin’ Tough” in 2019. Alongside his songwriting partners Justin Peter Kinkel-Schuster (Water Liars, Marie/ Lepanto) and Jimbo Mathus (Squirrel-Nut Zippers), he toured tirelessly throughout the United States sharing these songs and emerging as a frontman. The halt of the pandemic lockdown forced a reflection for Spencer that ultimately led him from his familiar backdrop of Jackson to Athens, Georgia.

When he moved to the small yet lauded music town in August 2020, both the Georgia heat and the pandemic were still in full swing. In what was a time of intense isolation for many, Spencer saw the move as a personal test, and experienced a redefining of self which he distilled into the musical language he so deftly communicated. He would record a demo of a song, and in the evening walk the streets of Athens’ Normaltown neighborhood, listening intently to what he had created.

The resulting album, “The Joke of Life” (out now via Strolling Bones) , was recorded over the last three years with the help of a veritable “who’s who” of the Athens music scene and beyond, including members of My Morning Jacket, Drive-By Truckers, Reptar, Heffner and Futurebirds, for which he served as the band’s keyboard player from 2020-2024.