“What I love about music is the idea that we’re not just trying to put our blinders on,” he said. If anything, he views his success as an incredible privilege and platform to give voice to the voiceless and shed light on the stories of others. Nevertheless, Ramsey doesn’t let the numbers get to him. I kind of nudged him and he said, ‘What?’ and I said, ‘We need to write a song called one man band.’įrom that moment, the song flourished organically and accrued the critical acclaim that all songwriters dream of. Whatever he was saying, I no longer remembered except for ‘one man band.’ And Brad, our guitar player, was standing next to me. We’re just talking, it was before the show, and I forget what exactly he said, but he said ‘one man band’ in his sentence,” Ramsey said. “We were on the road, as we always are, and there was someone on the bus, I think he was like a radio person.
One of their biggest hits titled “One Man Band,” which is off of their latest album Old Dominion and clocks in at 195 million streams on Spotify, was a song that Ramsey explains basically came out of thin air. In hindsight, it’s quite clear to see that Ramsey made the right decision considering the band’s mass success since their debut on the country scene in 2014. I decided, to most of my parents’ chagrin probably, that I was gonna work on music.” “I was gonna have to either focus on art or focus on music. This magnitude towards fine arts led to a degree from the Virginia Commonwealth University in illustration and from there, Ramsey had to make a decision: “I knew that if I wanted to be successful in either one of these fields that I needed to pick one,” he says. And she could see that I wasn’t into going to math class after her class.” My art teacher would let me stay in the darkroom, and develop photos all day long. And my art teacher, they both really helped me. “I wasn’t a huge reader, but I could get language and writing and things like that. In high school, I had an English teacher, and I was always good at English class,” Ramsey shares.
That’s where I kind of just buried myself in it. “Once I got into middle school and high school, I was clearly drawn to music and art. Matthew Ramsey, frontman of country group Old Dominion, joins Michael Franti’s Stay Human podcast for an in-depth discussion on his background as an artist, Old Dominion’s music and the responsibility artists with a platform have to speak up about tough subjects.īorn in the smalltown of Buchanan, Virginia, Ramsey explains that his love of art was always apparent to him and his family, especially in his formative years during school.
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