India Ramey Previews 'Villain Era' With 'We Ride At Dawn'

(MAD Ink) 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 Elan 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."

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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