India Ramey – We Ride At Dawn
Today, Nashville outlaw country siren India Ramey releases “We Ride At Dawn,” the latest from her forthcoming LP Villain Era, out May 8 via Copaco Records/Blue Élan Records.
In celebration of the release, Ramey will also embark on a Nashville Honky Tonk tour. “Nashville reaches so many different audiences depending on the room, so I wanted to take this new music on a mini-tour of some of my favorite spots around town,” she shares.
A callback to “King of the Ashes” from her 2020 album Shallow Graves, “We Ride At Dawn” delivers an anthemic feminist call to action in response to the stripping away of women’s bodily autonomy. Through a spaghetti western lens, Ramey spins a scorched-earth tale in which a band of women rises up, chases down the bandits who have destroyed their town, and reclaims what was stolen. It’s a promise of revenge from the ones who survived.
“We Ride At Dawn” follows “Scattered and Smothered,” a tongue-in-cheek, 2 a.m. Waffle House booth confessional, and “Welcome to My Villain Era,” a danceable declaration from a woman done suffering fools and setting boundaries with anyone who dares to cross them. “If my boundaries offend you,” Ramey says, “I’ll happily play the villain in that story.”
Following the success of her fiery 2024 LP Baptized By The Blaze, which chronicled a hard-won journey through trauma and healing, Villain Era finds Ramey no longer asking for permission, but claiming her ground.
A eulogy for the death of the “good girl” and a refusal to shrink in the face of expectation, Villain Era pushes back against a cultural moment where women’s autonomy is increasingly under attack. Ramey leans into the label so often used to contain women who step out of line, embracing the role of “villain” as a declaration of independence and power.
Recorded in Los Angeles with two-time Grammy-nominated producer Eric Corne, Villain Era blends honky-tonk grit with cinematic scope. Ramey, whose fans have dubbed her “The Woman in Black” and “the Wednesday Addams of country music,” set out to create a sound that feels like Johnny Cash and Loretta Lynn rising from the grave to score a Quentin Tarantino film – a vision that comes fully to life on “We Ride At Dawn.”
Ramey is set to perform a run of shows in support of the release, including a Nashville Honky Tonk tour leading up to release day, making appearances at WMOT’s Finally Friday, Honky Tonk Tuesday, Robert’s Western World, The 5 Spot, and the Nashville Palace.
TOUR DATES [More dates TBA]
5/1 – WMOT Finally Friday @ 3rd and Lindsley – Nashville, TN
5/5 – Honky Tonk Tuesday @ Eastside Bowl – Nashville, TN
5/6 – Robert’s Western World (w/ The Cowpokes) – Nashville, TN
5/7 – Album Release Show @ The 5 Spot – Nashville, TN
5/8 – Release Show After Party @ Nashville Palace – Nashville, TN
5/14 – The Whitehorse – Austin, TX
5/15 – The Lonesome Rose – San Antonio, TX
5/16 – The Devil’s Backbone – Fischer, TX
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