BILL RAMSEY

GRAPHIC DESIGNER & WRITER

Bill Ramsey is a graphic designer and writer living in Chattanooga, Tennessee, specializing in newspaper, magazine and book design.
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Jan 26, 2015
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Stephen Bishop: On and On and On …

The Filipino Press | November 2010   You’re fine. The weather’s fine. Everything is fine. Then one day it hits you. That song. And the memories come rushing back. And everything is still fine, but not as fine as it was. And then — after the song rotates in your head for days; after you find yourself randomly singing it — it slips away. And you shrug it off. And everything is fine again.   That, in a nutshell, could be called “On and On” Syndrome. Singer-songwriter Stephen Bishop is the melancholy musical chemist responsible.   Anyone over 40 will likely remember the song, a Top 40 hit for Bishop in 1977. With its lazy, tropical rhythm melding effortlessly with Bishop's wispy, lonely voice, “On and...

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Jan 26, 2015
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On the Streets of Bakersfield, Buck Stops Here

Texas Music Magazine | Summer 2006   Buck Owens, suffering the diseases and scars that plague most old men, wore out on March 25, 2006, and died in his bed at the age of 76. But not before taking the stage one more time on the streets of his beloved Bakersfield, the inland California city the native Texan made famous and called home for more than half a century.   Initially, Owens told his band there would be no show the night of March 24 — hardly the first time the Buckaroos had been told to cancel a performance at the Crystal Palace. The Palace is Owens' multi-million dollar over-sized honky-tonk with good food, plenty of neon and not a thing any more interesting for...

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Jan 26, 2015
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by Bill Ramsey
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Crossing Over: Falling in Love with Selena, 10 Years Later

Texas Music Magazine | Spring 2005 To millions she was simply “Selena” — a superstar at 23 in her native Texas and throughout Mexico and Latin America, scoring hit after hit with steamy ballads such as “Amor Prohibido” and bouncy, Tex-Mex bubblegum synth-pop ditties such as “Bidi Bidi Bom Bom.” Squeezed into form-fitting spandex tights, topped with leather biker caps and revealing rhinestone-encrusted bustiers, the late singer’s slightly naughty sensuality mesmerized her worshipful legion of admirers at sold-out concerts while remaining a squeaky-clean role model to young Latina girls. But to country star Wynonna Judd, Selena was just a good cook. Just weeks before her tragic death on March 31, 1995, at the hands of an unstable former employee, Selena was perched on...

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