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American singer-songwriter

Musical artist

Ramsay Midwood is an Austin, Texas-based American singer-songwriter and actor. His voice has been likened to Woody Guthrie, Johnny Cash, John Prine, and Bruce Springsteen, his lyrical imagery to Tom Waits, and his raw blues music to John Lee Hooker.^[1][2]

Biography

Midwood born in Woodstock, New York and raised in Arlington, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, D.C.

His father, novelist Bart Midwood who also wrote for Esquire, and his mother, painter Susan Kellogg, encouraged his musical interests.^[3]

After graduating from James Madison University in 1987, Midwood moved to Chicago and acted as an understudy with the Steppenwolf Theater Company in a production of The Grapes of Wrath, playing both Al Joad and Floyd Knowles.^[4]

Midwood moved to Los Angeles, where he met guitarist Randy Weeks (Lonesome Strangers) who would co-produce Midwood's first album.^[5] Midwood an