Josh Ramsay, The Versatile Marianas Trench Leader Shows His Many Sides on First Solo LP
By Kevin Young
When Canadian Musician spoke to Josh Ramsay,as usual, he was hard at it. That’s par for the course, mind you; as frontman and principal songwriter for pop-rock stars Marianas Trench and as a collaborator with a wide range of other artists, he’s always got something on the go. And so, for his first solo LP, he had no intention of recording the kind of stripped-down, introspective offering so often associated with a lead singer’s solo project.
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