India Ramey is my new favourite cowgirl. She gave up a law career to become a full-time musician and songwriter and brings a prosecutor’s zeal to bear on this set of eleven sharp and sassy tunes.
"I'd been running from my trauma my entire life" she admits and says that "This is my empowerment album. " The yee-haw factor is high she belts out the songs with energy and passion.
This is a woman with attitude to spare. In the title track she sings of being “born of the flames” and gives the impression of a woman on fire who is not to be messed with.
Aside from promoting her own personal growth, in Rotten and Go On Git she turns a sharp gaze on the absence of moral compass at the heart of American culture and on one no-good politician in particular with.
Honkytonk country music doesn’t travel all that well outside the U.S of A. This is a pity because India Ramey has plenty of things to say and numerous axes to grind that are not solely for an American audience.
