Category: Willis Alan Ramsey

Willis Alan Ramsey was born in Birmingham, Alabama, but was raised in Dallas from age 10 and graduated from Highland Park High School in 1969. He was a prominent baritone in the school's Lads and Lassies Choir, and in his senior year he landed a leading role in the school…

Luck, Texas isn't a town so much as a movie set that stuck around: Willie Nelson built it on his ranch in Spicewood in 1985 for the film version of his concept album "Red Headed Stranger," then liked it so much he kept it standing and built his own home…

Built in 1928 on Mason's courthouse square and opened with a screening of the German silent film "Metropolis," the Odeon Theater is the longest continually operating theater in West Texas. Threatened with conversion in the mid-1990s, it was saved by local residents who formed the nonprofit Odeon Preservation Association and…

Willis Alan Ramsey counts the Redbird Listening Room among his very favorites, calling it "one of my very favorite little listening rooms anywhere." The room was opened by singer-songwriter Dallas Burrow in his New Braunfels hometown, and Ramsey has credited that pedigree directly: it "has not only survived but thrived…

Willis Alan Ramsey has called the Devil's Backbone Tavern "one of my very favorite venues anywhere on the planet," and he means it — he returns to what he calls its "historic stage" again and again. Ahead of a 2025 date there he posted, "I am very much looking forward…