Born and raised in the blue-collar Mississippi River town of Burlington, Iowa in 1951, Robert Franklin "Bo" Ramsey is perhaps best known for his collaboration/friendship with revered folksinger Greg Brown. Ramsey has played guitar on nine of Brown's discs, and produced/co-produced 1990's Down In There, 1994's The Poet Game, 1996's Further In, 1997's Grammy-nominated Slant 6 Mind, 2000's Covenant, and 2006's The Evening Call (all on Red House Records), as well as 2000's Over And Under and 2004's Honey In The Lion's Head for Trailer Records.
Bo co-produced the Grammy-nominated record 'Essence' for Lucinda Williams, and has produced records for Iris Dement, Pieta Brown, Jeffrey Foucault, Kevin Gordon, Dave Moore, Teddy Morgan and others. He has toured with Willams, and appeared with her on "The Late Show With David Letterman", "The Tonight Show" with Jay Leno, and "Late Night With Conan O'Brien." Other tube appearances include playing with Lucinda and Elvis Costello in the first segment of CMT's "Crossroads" series and again with Lucinda in award-winning German film director Wim Wenders' "Soul Of A Man" segment for Martin Scorsese's seven-part series on the blues for public television.
Bo's distinctive, inimitable guitar sounds have graced the recorded works of artists such as Kate Campbell, Calexico, Pete Seeger with Larry Long ,Ani DiFranco and Iris DeMent. He has also recorded eight albums under his own name, four which remain in print; "Down to Bastrop", "In the Weeds", "Stranger Blues" and "Fragile" all available at CDbaby.com.
Bo's complete profile is available at his website, .
